Georgia Road Trip w/Janice - Ocmulgee Mounds & Atlanta

Continuing our road trip with Janice, the next morning we made one last stop in Savannah, on the south side of town, about a mile south of our AirBnB. This area was much more of a residential area, and less touristy than the historic center. We admired the Gingerbread house from the outside, then had coffee and pastries at the Foxy Loxy Cafe.

The Gingerbread house.

A perfectly natural, un-posed picture at the coffee shop.

We broke up the drive back to Atlanta by stopping at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park. The site has remains of a Mississippian period (900s CE) village, complete with large temple mounds and a structure with the original clay floor. It's an overlooked part of regional history, and hopefully will be elevated to full national park status. Back in Atlanta, we finished out the day with dinner at Little Rey

There's a small but nice museum.

Janice in the mound.

Atop the Great Temple Mount. Everything here was so lush!

Janice: one drink for hydration, one drink for energy, and one drink for fun.

Yay, tacos!

Janice's last day with us arrived, but luckily her flight didn't leave until later in the afternoon, so we had time to see a couple of things around Atlanta first. We started at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, which had a special troll exhibit. There were several giant trolls made of mostly recycled materials throughout the gardens. The weather was great, and we spent a leisurely couple of hours wandering the gardens.

Look, a friendly troll!

Janice with the Gaia fountain.

Gaia selfie!

I guess she had to wash her hair.

Janice's new troll friend.

Janice's new frog friends.

Drunk frogs.

A cool flower.

Inside one of the tropical buildings.

A spiky plant in the desert building.

Our second (and last) stop of the day was the Center for Puppetry Arts. Janice has been here before, but there are some new exhibits and a temporary exhibition on Where the Wild Things Are. As always, we loved the dark crystal exhibit.

Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Streeeet?!

Janice's new home. Much more affordable than Edmonton.

Paul practicing to be a garthim.

Aughra isn't looking a day over 150.

Paul dropped off Janice at the airport, and thus ended the road trip. See you next time, Janice!