Trip to Hayesville

We headed to Hayesville, NC to visit Ryan's parents on Friday.  We were supposed to leave Thursday, but I came down with strep throat on Wednesday.  I caught it really early, before I even had a fever.  Ryan came home for lunch and I told him that I thought I might have strep.  I wanted to go ahead and go to the doctor, and he agreed that was best.  Sure, enough the test was positive.  I started antobiotics, and felt worse later that day and had a fever that night.  I didn't feel well enough on Thursday to travel, so we decided to wait until Friday.  I felt a lot better Friday, so we left around 10:00.  The trip is just about 4 hours away, and it is a really pretty drive, too.  We spent most of our time in the creek behind his parent's house.  The water was sooooooo cold!  The kids got in anyway (and therefore, us) and had a blast.  They loved being in the creek and playing with rocks.  Most of my pictures are creek pictures, and there are lots of them:

wading through the water

There they go!

don't fall

Mercy in the water.  A little cold didn't bother her!

Mercy and I

Aedan in the deeper part.

Looking for rocks

We found a couple crawdaddys.

Ryan and Mercy

Mercy and I

We headed into town one evening for a Memorial Day concert.

The kids with Grammy and Grampy.  Josiah isn't as bored as he looks in this picutre.  haha!

On the corner was a tribute to war heros.

Mercy found her favorite car.  It's pink...no surprise!

The "blue grass" band.

We went to get ice cream afterwards!  It was in an old-timey shop.  I felt like I was in a movie, or something.

yummy ice cream

Aedan on the horse.

Josiah on the horse.

Mercy on the horse.

ready for bed!

asleep

Day 2~ started with the creek again, of course!

Love these log pictures!

Josiah, Mercy Cate, and Aedan

Looking down the creek.

Our usual McGann shot!  We do it at the beach, so why not in a creek.

Ryan is teaching Aedan how to skip rocks in the water.

walking

Josiah

Mercy in the water.  It seems crazy to me that she actually wanted to sit in the freezing water.

Mercy

Josiah and I

Ryan decided to pull a chair down into the creek:)  smart idea!

Ryan with Mercy

Josiah and Aedan hiked back up the creek to the log upstream. 

working together

Aedan

the creek

Grammy and Mercy Cate

Aedan wanted to cross this log!

Ryan met him halfway.

planting a tree

more planting

Mercy with the tree

Go Mercy!

Mercy and I played this game where she would run around me and I would try to snap a picture of her.  It was pretty fun!

got her!

and again!

and again!

The next morning (our last morning there) the kids wanted to go into the creek again!  So, we did.  Most of the time, I felt pretty unstable on the rocks...trying to manuever my feet onto safe places, but it was still fun.  We left just after lunch.  We had plans to stop at the Occoee River, but Mercy had already fallen asleep!  (That was unexpected...she must have been really tired from the weekend.)  Maybe next time!