Weekend of fun and beauty - Part One

Well, I couldn't resist, I had to post some pictures from our trip this past weekend and since there is so much I want to share, I'm going to break it down in two parts. This first part is when we visited Cherokee. It was so much fun and had a blast.

We went to the museum and as we were listening to the small film shown at the beginning of our visit, Patrick kept telling us the stories before the narrator did (he had studied the Cherokee Indians at the beginning of the school year) and it was fun hearing him tell us - he was so excited that he knew it already. The next one is spooky because it is a picture of wax figures from the museum - these guys look so real, I just had to share them. It was amazing to see - I just kept waiting for one of them to start talking to me :)

This picture I just had to put up because it shows a tradition Jim started many years ago when we would took our two older kids on vacation and, of course, it needs to be carried on with Patrick - that tradition is to find a rock from the place we have not visited before (yes, I have oodles of rocks in my house and they all sit on a shelf in Patrick's room) and wouldn't you know it, he picked he largest rock he could find :) I'll have to take a picture of it and upload it tomorrow.

After finding his rock, Patrick decided to head over to a tepee and have himself a seat - he told us that looking for the rock was very tiring and he needed to rest :) - if you haven't figured it out already, he's a mess :) I couldn't resist taking this picture because seeing him sitting in the tepee and slouching like he had just run a marathon was too funny. The last one from Cherokee taken with a native Indian - Patrick thought it was "cool" to get this picture and plans on taking it back to school when it starts back up next week to show everyone.

I'm going to post the other part of our trip tomorrow - these are the "beauty" pictures.

Have a good evening.

Janet