Can you believe how pretty this part of the world is? When you're in the middle of it, all you can see are the trees on either side of you. It's cool to get above everything and be like, "Hey! I live in there!" Also, you can see everyone with their blankets on the lawn, waiting for the laser show (details below).
On our first or second weekend in Atlanta, Jared took me to
the Stone Mountain Laser Show. He had bought VIP passes or something like that,
so before the show started we were able to take the tram to the top of
the mountain and look out, and we also took a train ride around the park. The
laser show itself was fun! Stone Mountain has a huge carving on it of some
confederates in the Civil War. The laser show is a little show of some
old-school “laser” clips (basically just old-school digital drawings with
random storylines) projected over the carving, and then they play lots of
patriotic songs and country music in the background. It's probably really corny and meant for little kids, but I started crying during the show because I was just so happy to have a place to call home with Jared in AMERICA. Grenada was a wonderful experience and really pretty and all, but man, I stinkin love this country.
Anyway, during and after the laser show they shoot off
fireworks, and there are even a couple times when they light these giant
flame-thrower things that heat up the whole park for a moment. We’ve been back
a couple times since that first weekend. Once we went with some of our Grenada
friends to see the laser show again, and twice more we went to hike the
mountain. I’ve even gone alone once or twice with Savanna just to explore the
hiking trails in the forest around the lake at the mountain’s base. When Jared
and I settle down someday it will need to be somewhere with lots of remote trails
and nature to explore. You can get that here if you drive an hour or two outside
the city, but Stone Mountain’s our only nearby option (although we do basically
live in the middle of a beautiful forest, so every road we drive down is
scenic). I’ll have to do a post about fall in Atlanta soon. We’re on the tail
end of it, and it really is breathtaking.
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