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\nWe are enjoying Spring Break here in Alabama! Woo-hoo! We drove to Alabama’s highest point, Cheaha Mountain, \nAnalise decided to carry on an interesting conversation about ducks, cows, mommy, and daddy for almost \nWe parked at a lovely boardwalk trail that takes you to a beautiful overlook. (See the pictures at the top of this page). \nAfter a short rest, we drove to the highest point on the mountain so we could check out the amazing view. We had to \nAll of our adventuring left us pretty hungry, so we decided to have dinner at the restaurant located on a cliff next to \nPictures, pictures, pictures! Click on any of the pictures in this blog to zoom in to see a larger picture.\n<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Click on any of the pictures in this blog to zoom in to see a larger picture. \u00a0 We are enjoying Spring Break here in Alabama! Woo-hoo! We drove to Alabama’s highest point, Cheaha Mountain, on Wednesday. It was a cool, clear, beautiful early Spring day. We drove some nice back roads to get there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\non Wednesday. It was a cool, clear, beautiful early Spring day. We drove some nice back roads to get there
\nfollowing the same route that I took when I biked to
\nSamford’s new faculty retreat<\/a> in January.\n<\/p>\n
\nthe entire<\/em> two hour drive. She’s been amazingly observant in the car, keeping her eyes
\nconstantly open for ducks and doggies. The conversation went something like this:
\n“Ducks? Wheah ducks? Moah (more)! Mommy, Daddy ducks! Doggie? (doggie sound) Ahh gone.
\nMoah? Moah! Ducks! Mmmmmmmmoo! (constipated cow sound).” I wish we could have taped it.
\nVery entertaining. She’s such a chatterbox lately! The other amazing thing was that she didn’
\nt nap – as we thought she would – on the entire 2 hour trip in the early afternoon.
\nToo much to talk about, I guess!\n<\/p>\n
\nAlongside the trail, though, is a rocky path that takes you to the overlook as well. We decided to take the path and let
\nAnalise try hiking on her own for the first time. She loved it! She’s like a little mountain goat! My dad would be so
\nproud to see his little granddaughter climbing all over the rocks. She wanted to stand on top of all the rocks she found.
\nWhen she’d get past a rocky section, she’d take off running. A bit precarious, but we didn’t have any spills, amazingly.
\nAt the overlook, we spent some time climbing the rocks, and from a distance away, Analise hard a dog, and she was
\ndetermined to get to it. We visited with the sweet Australian sheep dog, while Analise alternatingly lunged at him to
\nkiss him and leaned away as he nuzzled up to her. She loved it – going between squeals of laughter, cries of “Doggie!”
\nand her little doggie sounds. The dog loved her enthusiasm, I think:) We took the boardwalk trail back, and we had to
\npractically run to keep up with Analise.\n<\/p>\n
\nclimb up an old observation deck (built in the 1940’s) to get above the trees. Analise was amazing. She climbed up all
\n62 stairs (we counted on the way back down). The view was great, but we were ready to go hiking again. Off we went, and
\nwe found a waterfall next to the road. We parked above the waterfall, and found that there was a cool pond behind it.
\nI told Analise that we might see some “fish” in the pond. Analise responded by saying, “Pish, Pish, Iwanpish, Iwanpish”.
\nWe actually didn’t see any fish, but there were hundred of tadpoles swimming around.\n<\/p>\n
\nthe edge of the mountain. Analise was so good even though she had not had a nap all day, and she had hiked, climbed, and
\nwalked all over the mountain, too. During dinner though, Analise pulled over a cup of ice water and it spilt all over her.
\nThe shock of the cold water led to some crying, but we exchanged her wet onesie for a sweat jacket and all was good.
\nThen we watched a beautiful “God-painted” sunset together. A biker (motorcycle) told us that the sunset was God-painted,
\nand we agreed. Finally, we left to drive home, and Analise was asleep within five minutes of leaving and didn’t
\nwake up until the next morning. We drove home on part of the Cheaha Challenge bicycle route. Whew! Can’t wait to do that
\nride in May.\n<\/p>\n
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