Atlanta Trip Day 3, Ruby Falls

Day 3 of our Atlanta Trip and we are headed home. We left right after breakfast so we can avoid traffic. On our way through Chattanooga we decided to stop and see Ruby Falls and if time and weather permitted we would also see Rocky City. Ruby Falls is an 145 ft underground waterfall, approx 1200 feet below the surface. We started off taking an elevator ride down about 260 ft, and then hiked from there to the waterfall. The kids loved it, and I was amazed at how Rick kept up. There were so many beautiful rock formations and of coarse the falls itself. For more info on Ruby Falls, go to the web site: www.rubyfalls.com.

We didn't have time to walk through Rock City, it was about to rain, so we drove past and do have plans to go back this spring to camp, hike, climb, and zip line around Rock City. We started here, the elevator is located on the 2nd level.
Down in the caves, our path was lighted the whole way and we had a tour guide.

Atop of Ruby Falls lookout overseeing Chattanooga.

Here is video of the falls! So Beautiful!

Atlanta Day 2, the Zoo

On day 2 of our Atlanta Trip, Feb 20th, we went to the Atlanta Zoo! The kids just love the animals and they were certainly getting their fill of marine and land animals this weekend. The Atlanta zoo isn't much bigger than Nashvilles, but this zoo has an amazing gorilla and monkey exibits. We also went on a train ride and played in the kids zone. The kids were pretty worn out and we took a nap when we got back to the hotel. We then went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner.

This gorilla was pounding on the glass at us. you can see Emma in the reflection.

This is the newest gorilla in the zoo, only 9 months olds. Rick just loved watching the gorillas and didn't want to leave and move on to see the other animals, but when the mama gorilla took the baby gorilla out of sight, he was ready to move on. It was amazing to see this little guy, his mom would just hold onto his leg and not let him wonder off.

The first video is Emma drawing the animals that we see. The second is the baby gorilla.