We had an extra day after the conference, so we went to two national park units. First, we drove up to the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. We started at the small museum in the visitor's center that was disturbing in the way it glorified the Confederacy and the civil war. The displays and materials were very biased, describing the confederacy as it's own country and honoring it's president. It glossed over the reasons for the civil war as preserving the economic way of life without any mention of the social implications of slavery. We left right away. Ughhhh. I don't even have any photos (although the park land was lovely).
Next we drove to the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. The Hewett Lodge Visitor's Center is housed in a beautiful lodge built in the 1930's as a private retreat. We had a fun chat with the ranger on duty and bought two stuffed birds that chirp for Libby. Then we walked the trails by the Island Ford section of the park.
We walked down to the river and along the trails in a loop back up to the visitor's center. The weather was in the 60s in Dec and misty. Really lovely. Libby enjoyed seeing the river (she called it an ocean) and the birds, squirrels, and trees and sticks.
