This year my best friend, Sarah, and I started a new tradition. We went to Callaway Gardens for the Fantasy in Lights. Sarah, Josh, Miguel and I all went for a day and a night (Thanks mom for puppy-sitting!) It was really fun to go on a mini vacation and spend time together while enjoying nature's beauty. We got blessed with gorgeous weather. It was so beautiful there. I love the mountains and woods. I took a lot of nature pictures... sorry. But they're not all scenery.
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| Thanks, Sarah, for driving us! |
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| We saw wild turkeys when we got there! That's why I was out of the car in the above picture. |
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This is the chapel. It's Sarah's favorite place in the world. |
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Even the trails are beautiful. Callaway reminds me of Hilton Head in the way that the buildings camouflage into the nature |
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| Sarah and Josh in front of the chapel |
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| View from the chapel |
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| Handsome Hubby |
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My favorite part was walking around the paths and enjoying how beautiful it was.
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| The colors inside the chapel are amazingly beautiful! |
After we visited the chapel and walked around a bit we went to the indoor gardens. I loved this place too. Callaway still had their Christmas decorations up. Happiness! The flowers and plants were beautiful. We had a really good time looking at new plants we've never seen before.
Next we went to the butterfly garden. That was really fun too, except that we were in winter clothing and it was VERY hot in there. Also, there were wayyyyyy too many lady bugs. You'll see what I'm talking about. in the picture below.
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| ewww the lady bugs... they were EVERYWHERE! |
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| Sarah's special bridge |
After the butterfly garden we went back to our rooms and napped and got ready for dinner. Sadly, we didn't take any pictures of us all dressed up at dinner. Dinner was realllllly yummy. Especially the fried green tomatoes - which we ordered because neither Sarah or Josh had ever tasted any... and they've lived in the south all their lives! They liked them a lot though. =) After dinner we went back to the Inn, got some drinks then changed into warmer clothes to go get on the trolly and see the light show.
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Do you like our hats? Sarah and I bought these weeks ago to surprise the boys
by wearing them for the light show. They didn't seem to like them as much as we do! |
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| Christmas village! Yay! Yummy fudge!! |
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| We were very cold. See Josh in the back completely bundled up in a snuggie. |
We had a great time!!!! Can't wait to go again next year and continue the tradition!
