Adventures in the Aspire: Stone Mountain Easter Weekend 2014

Stone Mountain
One of the long weekend trips we recently went on was to Stone Mountain, GA. We have an interesting story about Stone Mountain, sort of. Several years ago, I'm talking like more than 16 because this was before the kids were born, we owned a 5th wheel trailer. Keith and I went to Florida for a vacation. On the way back to TN we decided to stop at this campground we were near. We pulled in, found our spot and got ready to relax. We had two golden retrievers with us too. Spencer and Roscoe. They were the best dogs and loved to go with us. Anyway, we wanted to take the dogs for a walk a started up the road. The next thing I know (remember this is more than 16 years ago) we see a large grassy area and a carving on the side of this mountain. The carving is of the Confederate Memorial of three leaders of the Civil War. President Jefferson Davis, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson sitting on their horses. How cool is this and what is it? I remember just walking around and finding out that not only is the carving there, but there is a train to ride around the mountain, and at night there will be a laser light show. What? This we got to see. So back to the trailer, get the lawn chairs, put up the dogs and find a spot on the grass. We had no idea what we were about to see. When it got dark, designs started showing up on the mountain made by laser lights and music started playing. It was really cool. While the laser lights were making designs on the mountain songs like "Sweet Home Alabama", "Georgia On My Mind" sung by Ray Charles & "Dixie Land, An American Trilogy" by Elvis Presley. Talk about goose bumps. It was was of those moments where you were proud to be in the "land of cotton." I'm getting goose bumps now just writing about it. If you want to you can probably see it on you tube. There is one called Stone Mountain Park Laser show 2004-Elvis-Dixie that will show you what I am talking about.
So anyway, Easter weekend was approaching and were were getting the anxious to take the Aspire somewhere so I mention taking it to Stone Mountain so that the kids can see what we saw. The light show and music were as I remembered but the grassy area was now protected by a fence and there were minimal areas to sit on. That was one of the best parts I thought, sitting in that big grassy area with a lot of other people doing the same and watching the show of lights. We still got to see it all and hear it all but we sat on chairs they provided sort of like on a porch area. So here is our view from where were were sitting.