Atlanta Field Trip

How do three months pass by so quickly now?! My biggest hurdle with keeping up the blog is that getting photos from my phone to blogger is not easy. Still going to update when I can!

We arrived home yesterday from a fun 3 day trip to Atlanta with 2 other homeschool families. It was full of field trips and play!

Smiles all around

One of my favorite moments. We were done with all of our field trips but weren't ready to go home so we had snacks at a train depot coffee station. The kids from 2-15 all played together and had a blast. 

Our last place to visit was this fantastic museum on the campus of Emory University.

We have been studying ancient Greece and there were quite a few Greek antiques with names that were familiar to the kids.

Sean listens to the audio companion at the museum. Those items on the bottom row are earspools, for stretching out earring holes VERY wide.

I was pushing around an empty stroller at the museum!

We can now check off watching our ice cream be frozen in front of us with liquid nitrogen! It was very interesting and expensive!

The older kids fought to get Finn to themselves. After the coffee shop we all went to IKEA together before finally driving home.

Holding hands in IKEA 😍

Sean got everyone excited about buying a jackfruit while we were at the huge international market in Dekalb. This beast was 14 pounds and took forever for them to get the fruit out of, then it was unripe, but they still liked it and had fun.

It was extremely sticky and left a sap-like residue on everything. We had to google a solution to getting it off the knives!

A visit to the Governor's Mansion in Georgia.

The State dining room

This is the most valuable piece in the mansion.

This painting of George Washington by Peale is worth looking up. His head is too small for his body!

Game and puzzle time at the house we rented.

Snuggling up next to a friend watching America's funniest videos.

Post-breakfast at the local doughnut shop!

Our first stop was a Civil War railroad museum, complete with a homeschool workshop!

Crazy kids-not quite sure what was going on here!

This was a true railroad town (Kennesaw) and Finn was captivated by the many trains that went by.

We spent a whole evening at a planetarium and observatory. Cathleen went in with normal brushed hair and came out like this. It was a MESS!

The International Market in Dekalb was a lot of fun-lots of exotic food and live seafood!

At the international market. Sean REALLY wanted a crawfish to take home as a pet.