Okefenokee fun

 Recently we enjoyed a 2 night camping adventure in Okefenokee Swamp. The weather was perfect, the adventures fun, and the gators a plenty.

Our campsite was a short walk to the entrance.

And our first hike had a run in with what we think was a water moccasin 

The first night we hung out at the main water entrance and happened to find someone fishing. Henry knew the first fish he caught was a sunfish!

We bonded with Sophie, the resident alligator  near the park entrance who was lazing around with two babies near by.

We went canoeing the next day and saw at least 7 gators often within a few feet of our boat.

And hung out on Billy's Island for a picnic that made Elliot super happy

But of course there was time for relaxing 

Cabining

We're enjoying a few days of cabin-ing while the boys' school is closed. The weather has been fantastic with light rain the first day and cool sunshine today. One more night of sleeping to the sounds of nature, including a small water fall right outside our cabin. As you can imagine, the boys are having a blast.

Here is our 'backyard'

And looking upstream:

We hiked around a lake this morning 

With a spur to a waterfall

And some time at a water logged playground 

Bliss!

The best ingredients

While finishing off a batch of cookies I said we should make more and maybe we can put in quinoa to make them crunchy. Henry responded and said "Maybe we can put in Lima beans!!" And Elliot said "yeah, and also frozen blueberries!"  Hmmm, could be interesting....or maybe we'll leave those thoughts to daydreams.

Spring is here

You know spring has arrive when the ground bees come back in to town!

Thank everything they don't seem to sting because as you can see there are hundreds of them. They hang around for a month (at least that's how long they stayed last year).

Hiking around

We've had a lot of fun lately hiking around parks near our house

And Elliot liked to show off his Flask Power by trying to run super fast.

Let's hope this weekend there's great weather for more exploring!

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Snow adventures

School was closed for a day and a half for the snow storm, but, in the end, snow flakes fell for about 7 minutes.  Regardless, the boys had fun during the limited time they had to celebrate 'winter' as Elliot deemed it.

Fun around town

Last weekend the boys and I had a good time relaxing together and enjoying a reunion after my work trip with

Breakfast at the local bagel shop

To stumbling upon a Center for Puppetry Arts craft station and ice cream in the orchid room at the botanical gardens

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