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Mountain Weekend

I love long weekends! And as much as I love my job I really love days off of work!

This past weekend we took advantage of the fact that I had Monday off for MLK day and took a long weekend trip to the mountains. It was wonderful!

If you have been following me the past year you know that our family’s cherished lake house was taken in the tornado that came through spring before last. We have just finally got the cabin rebuilt and decided to take advantage of that and spent some much needed R&R time in the mountains over the long weekend. The below is a picture I took from our cabin window. You can tell a bunch of trees are still down from the tornado.

We started the weekend off by visiting one of the most beautiful vineyards I’ve ever been to. It’s called Tiger Mountain Vineyards and is in Tiger, GA. For just $5 you can taste all the wine you want. All their grapes are grown in Rabun County which is pretty neat and they have some delicious wines which have won more than 170 awards! I would highly encourage everyone to make a visit if you are ever in the area! There vineyards and tasting room are open year round. My two favorite wines were the Nortan and the Cabernet Franc. We purchased a bottle of the Nortan.

Below are some pictures from the Tiger winery. I am proud to say I took all these pictures. Simply gorgeous!

Below my husband and I are enjoying our wine at the Tiger Mountain Vineyards. Please excuse the Pilates pants…we were there for a mountain weekend and I didn’t plan on taking pictures and Pilates pants are my guilty pleasure when I’m not working.
Saturday we visited Anna Ruby Falls near Helen, GA. This has got to be one of the prettiest waterfalls I have ever seen (and that’s saying something because I’ve seen LOTS of waterfalls all over the country). 

These beautiful falls are located in the Chattahoochee National Forest and are readily accessible $3 a person. The water cascading over the drop offs is created by two creeks. The Curtis Creek falls drop 153 feet and the York Creek falls are a much shorter but still spectacular 50 feet. There is a 1/2 mile paved trail that leads from the parking lot to two viewing decks to see the falls. The 1/2 mile hike leads you by the creek to the top of the falls. It is a gorgeous walk. This would be an easily hike even for an elderly person or small child. Again this is a most see if you are ever in north GA. The below two pictures were taken on the hike to the falls.

Our next stop was the Habersham Winery in Helen, GA. I love Habersham Winery. Although it doesn’t have quite the picturesque view the Tiger Mountain Winery has, the wine is less expensive and is free to taste. You get four small tasting samples for free at this winery. Warning: this winery is more “touristy” than the Tiger Mountain Winery but is still worth going! This winery has also won numerous awards for its wine!
 

The final unique stop of the long weekend was Baby Land General Hospital in Cleveland, GA. The new baby land hospital was recently relocated. I have to say if you ever had the chance to visit the old Baby Land General Hospital the new one was quite a disappointment. Although it looks bigger from the outside (and also a bit like an insane asylum) the inside was a disappointment compared to the old baby hospital. This hospital is much more of a gift shop and much less of an experience. However, they do still feature births from Mother Cabbage every hour and do still have a nursery. You just have to get by the fact that “hickery dickery dock” is blaring through the speakers. That being said when I have a daughter some day I will still take her here. Admission is free so that’s a plus!
 
All in all it was a wonderful getaway weekend in the mountains with the love of my life! 

I hope you all had a wonderful MLK weekend!

~Chelsea

Comments

  1. Sounds like a great weekend! I went to both Helen, GA and the Cabbage Patch Hospital a couple years back and loved both!! Thanks for dropping by my blog earlier!!

    Jenna @ rainonatinroof.com

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  4. It looks like you had a wonderful time! I enjoyed your beautiful photos. Such a cute couple, too! Thank you so much for sharing with us at A Bouquet of Talent! Have a wonderful weekend. 🙂

    Kathy

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Mountain Weekend

A few weekends ago Josh and I got to go visit some of our best friends who recently got married (whohoo Lee + Nikki). They live in the mountains on the top of an apple orchard. Seriously, yall’…this is their backyard:

I know. Gorgeous right?

The purpose of the weekend was to go Whitewater rafting on Sunday down the Ocoee since it is not to far from their house but we ended up going up Friday night and getting into a whole lot of other shenanigans and basically having way to much fun.

We started our Saturday morning right by getting a biscuit at the DQ. If you have ever been in Ellijay, GA then you know that this is not a normal Dairy Queen. It’s THE place to be on a Saturday morning. After our biscuits we went out to their land to shoot some guns. This is when Lee and Josh continued their track record of injuries when they get together (you can read about Josh’s injury when we were hanging out with them in January in this post)…Lee ended up getting stung twice (once in the eye and once in the back of the head) by a yellow jacket/bee. Problem is he is severally allergic. Poor guy. His face/eye swelled up to Hulk size. Luckily he is a trooper and didn’t let it spoil our fun.

We continued on to the Apple Barn Nikki works at (below) for a delicious apple cider slushy and fried apple pie.

We spent the rest of our Saturday touring the gorgeous mountains. We even drove Lee’s truck down a creek. Talk about awesome. Here’s some pics of the scenery:

ADD we played in the creek as Josh and Nikki are proving in this pic:

We even got to hear coyotes from our window at night…scarry. Whitewater rafting was a success on Sunday and all four of us managed to stay in the raft although Lee’s little brother did not.

All in all in what a wonderful weekend with wonderful friends.

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