Now these pictures aren't in order, but you wouldn't know that if I didn't tell you. So, you will have to think this is the order we did things. Below is the waterway down by the river. If you look closely you can see the kids are soaked. We told them not to get wet. Do you think they obeyed?

After we walked a little, we found this neat brick formation that was fun to climb on. We were also taking time for the sun to dry off their clothes before we got back in the car.

On top of Lookout Mountain is a beautiful house that always had fancy cars lined up in the driveway. Last year it was gorgeous. This is what it looks like this year. Look closely at the roof line and you will notice that most of the roof is missing from a fire.

When the people lived here, this is the view they saw from their deck - amazing, huh?

Chattanooga is full of weird formations or statues - this is a wooden thing with a railroad track going through the center. It is called the Railroad Wave (wonder why?).

In front of the aquarium is a brick sidewalk. You can see that the song "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" is engraved in the brick. I took a picture of the title and the first phrase. The whole thing goes about one city block. After I took this picture, a teenager walked slowly down the sidewalk, singing the song, not looking up and walking very slowly so she could get in all the words.

The first phrase...

Emily, I thought you would like this picture. It is your "old" favorite car with a wind up key. We got a kick out of it.

Our newest neighbor...we get all kinds these days.

The owners of the cabin are building a new cabin (#10). While jumping in the hole where they were going to put the water line, the man found a six foot rattlesnake. I think it is time to head back north. At least we didn't actually see it (PTL!).

While at church, we met a family that has four children, homeschooled. The wife and children attend the church, the husband doesn't. The husband's family owns a restaurant called "Randy's." Randy is the grandpa of the family we met at church. We ate our Sunday lunch at Randy's. Actually, we waited until 3:30 because of the huge breakfast we had which you will read about down below. We went with the family to the Children's Museum. They were alot of fun. They, in fact, had two free coupons for the children. So, I only had to pay for myself. We took a picnic lunch and ate on the grass/sidewalk outside the museum. The theme for the upstairs of the museum was "Clifford, the Big Red Dog." Elyse loved it. Zachary was bored to tears. Today at church, this same family gave me a coupon for the Chattanooga Nature Center for one child to get in free. So, I will only have to pay for Zachary and me. Yeah, for free (right Lacey?).

Today's church service was a little different. Since it is a fifth Sunday, they do things differently. We had the evening service at 9:00 a.m., then breakfast, then the 11:00 service. The breakfast was amazing (remember, we are in the south). You know how I make my fruit salad? Well, this salad was pineapple, apples, coconut, walnuts or pecans - can't remember - with a sauce over it. I asked about the sauce and it was the juice from the pineapple and a box of instant pudding. So, we are going to try that the next time I make a fruit salad. It was amazing. We also had homemade biscuits, sausage gravy (I ate enough for you, Dan), eggs, pancakes, sausage, egg casserole and the fruit salad. It was all amazing. We ate far too much, but it was worth it.

I am sorry that we haven't updated more often, but it is hard to get to a place that has free internet and Tim isn't using the computer. He is almost done with his last paper that is due tomorrow. He worked most of the weekend on it. Friday, we go to Erin & Tobin's house. We were going to meet halfway in Montgomery, Alabama, but we would like to see their house and visit longer than what we could over a picnic lunch. So, we will be spending the weekend with them.