Sorry I’ve been a little delinquent about doing these behind the scenes posts, I’m hoping to get back to doing them weekly or at least every other week. I recently celebrated my birthday and this year I wanted to do something fun and more adventurous. We decided on kayaking and going up in a helicopter for the first time. Both were so much fun! We kayaked down the Toccoa River in Blue Ridge, GA. We did a 3 mile course and it was so beautiful. About the last 1/2 to 1/4 mile it started raining pretty good, and we were completely soaked!! But it was so much fun! The water was pretty calm and peaceful and there was a mist/fog over the water and a crane even flew out from the shore, so amazing!
Then we took our first helicopter ride and we loved it so much! I love flying so I thought I would like it, but I loved being able to see so much and the ride was super smooth! Plus it was super fun to wear the head set too! We just went for a 8-10 minute ride to get our feet wet, but I can’t wait to do a longer ride sometime in the future!
And I’ve mentioned this in the past, but we do an entire birthday weekend. We spent some time at the pool and had a wonderful time with friends Saturday and had a nice dinner with family Sunday night after the helicopter ride. On my actual birthday we had plans to go to breakfast in Chattanooga, but it was a torrential downpour, so we turned back and drove through Chick-Fil-A and came back and watched a movie and played Jenga, which was actually super fun! After lunch, it cleared up so we went to throw football a little bit, and Sophie loved watching us.
We also ate lots of delicious food throughout the weekend: chick-fil a biscuits, Apple Donuts & Apple Slushy from Mercier’s Orchard in Blue Ridge, chips & queso from J.Alexanders, a delicious chicken pesto sandwich with Sweet Potato Fries from a local Italian place, and topped it all off with a YoYo cookie sandwich from Publix (Which is two cookies sandwiched w/buttercream & dipped in chocolate). It was a wonderful birthday!
Happy Birthday! Looks like you had a blast! Now I’m off to find myself a yoyo cookie at publix. 😉
Thank you Leah! You will love those cookies!!
what a great birthday!! That helicopter ride looks so amazing!
Thank you Kayle! It was so fun!
Love the idea of celebrating all weekend with food and fun (but especially food!). Very neat that you guys took a helicopter ride.
Thank you Stephanie!
Happy late birthday! Please tell me you have the recipe for or may try and make an apple slushy?! sounds amazing!
Thank you Terri! I haven’t tried to make one at home but it is on my radar to make soon! They are so good!