High Falls State Park

We did not have any plans to travel this month. But, as usual, we were bitten with the bug to get out of the house for the weekend. High Falls State Park is close by so it's usually a good choice for a short weekend trip.

I drove separately from Jeff and the girls as I had some things to finish up at work on Friday and I didn't want to hold them up. But, I made it in plenty of time for dinner. We drove to Buckner's in Jackson, GA, for dinner because the campsite didn't have water available. We ended up having to move to another campsite because there was no water available in the loop due to maintenance being done in the area. Later, after moving our RV, we joined one of the park rangers after dinner for a night hike at the park. I think we all enjoyed the walk after eating so much for dinner at Buckner's.

The girls were anxious to go swimming so we planned to bring them to the High Falls State Park pool on Saturday. But, we were up a bit earlier than they had opened so we took a short hike by the Falls prior to going swimming.

At the base of the Falls, Rachel noticed a dragonfly nearby who then flew into a spider's web only to become the spider's next meal. Rachel was so sad that the pretty dragonfly was now a meal for the spider. She eventually got over it but not after a bit of crying about the whole matter. I didn't take a picture of the dragonfly but below is the spider. He was pretty cool to look at.

We had our run of the pool. There really weren't many others there. We were all amused at a sign outside of the baby pool though. Pay close attention to rule #3 that Anna is pointing to in the picture below. Now, we all know that they had to put this on a sign because some idiot put an infant in the pool that had diarrhea at some point. Am I the only one that thinks that it's a pretty sad state of affairs when people have to be told not to do this?

After spending a couple of hours at the pool, we were all ready for lunch. We decided to visit the local outlet mall in the afternoon to kill some time. The funny part was that Jeff was the one who suggested it. I wanted to take his temperature to see if he was feeling o.k. He never volunteers to go shopping.

After killing a few hours walking around the outlet mall, we ate dinner at O.B.'s before returning to the RV. By the way, if you stop at O.B.'s Bar-B-Que in McDonough, GA, you have to try their baby back ribs. Yummy!!!!

This weekend trip was short and sweet but something we all needed. I know I needed it. Work has been relentless as of late. And, I'm going to be on the road for the next couple of weeks for business travel so it was good to get some family time in.