callaway gardens

we had a great time at callaway gardens! jack did wonderful and i think really enjoyed everything we did. we went on a bike ride both days we were there. jack kept his helmet on and loved the ride. he would kick johnny's back and laugh. the bike ride was probably one of our favorite things we did. i don't think that i stopped smiling on the rides :)

we went to the butterfly center after our first bike ride. i think jack thought that the butterflies were really pretty. one landed on johnny's head and one landed on my leg...it freaked me out for some reason. i could feel it's tongue licking the sweat off my leg and it really grossed me out so i screamed and the lady next to us laughed at me :)

we went to a restaurant called the country kitchen. it was really yummy...the biscuits with muscadine preserves were our favorite part.

the next day we started off the day by going to the vegetable garden. it was really cool to see all the veggies up close. i think that this was my favorite garden. we saw corn, peppers, watermelon, sunflowers, muscadines, peach trees, tons of flowers and plants, a spider that looked like charlotte, grapes, and much more.

johnny using the analemmatic dial...it is a sundial that uses the months of the year and numbers to tell what time it is...it really worked!

me and jack in the corn
we tried to get a picture of jack's head next to the sunflowers because they were like twice the size of his head, but he was scared of them and started to cry!

i had never seen a watermelon growing before

this was in the horticulture center. it was really beautiful. this is a chenile plant native to new zealand. i am trying to get jack to take a bottle because for some reason he decided not to nurse on a very warm day. i was worried he was going to be dehydrated.

a jack size table

jack walking on the lawn

i just think that this picture is so cute

the swing that we sat on

pretty flower growing out of the wall

so pretty

feeding the fish...we thought that there were just a few fish in the pond but when i put the first bits of food in there they all came rushing over. it was crazy how many fish were in that pond. they responded really well to where i put the food.

my parents came over our last night there to babysit for us so that we could go on a date. jack had fun with mimi and papa and we had a great time at dinner. we went to the gardens restaurant. johnny got steak and i got trout. and we got banana cream pie for desert.