Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Chattanooga Weekend

We spent last Friday night and Saturday in Chattanooga at the Mitchells. Samantha LOVES going to see Uncle Bill, Aunt Elise, Will and Caroline ... there are so many new things for her to play with! Including a real-life dog, Chipper. It didn't take Samantha too long to warm up to sweet Chipper. From now on, we will actually be going to "Chipper's house." Sorry guys, you've been trumped!

Saturday was a gorgeous day, so we went down to Coolidge Park to wander around. Oh, how I wish we had a place like that in Knoxville! Samantha was thrilled to be outdoors. We will definitely be back very, very soon. We have yet to take her to the Chattanooga Aquarium, but Saturday was too pretty to be indoors. We'll put that on the agenda for the next trip.

Samantha's first experience with a powdered donut, courtesy of Aunt Elise. There's probably still sugar in that chair, unless Chipper has managed to get it all up!

Enjoying the beautiful weather, strolling through the park. Samantha liked walking all by her big-self.

Samantha checking out an alligator in the water, which was really just a log. She has a very active imagination!

Bringing up the rear with Daddy.

Bill, the keeper of the sweet teas, while we went for a whirl on the Coolidge Park carousel.

Samantha has an imaginary tiger friend, so we thought it would be appropriate for her to ride the tiger. She was a little apprehensive at first ...

Caroline on Coolidge, the horse. (All of the animals have names.)

Once the carousel staring going, and the wind started whipping through her hair, Samantha was hooked!

She got to a point that she did not want any assistance from Daddy.

Leading Caroline around.

Enjoying Aunt Elise's super spicy chex mix while watching her t.v. She wasn't too interested in golf, which was on the big t.v. courtesy of the Wii.

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