final thoughts on georgia

i was pretty excited for our event to end so i could come home...it was a long 10 days, so even though it went by quickly i was pretty worn out by the end.

after packing up on tuesday we got on the road...but couldn't leave clayton without visiting the famed "goats on the roof" gift shop and tourist attraction -- click that link, i guarantee it will make your day. i guess this is just one more piece of evidence toward how remote northern georgia is -- you put goats on a roof to attract people?? -- but i actually loved it.

we paid a quarter to get a handful of goat food, put it in a can and peddle it up to the roof where it dumped out. and to my delight all four of the sleeping goats up on the roof came over to check it out! so cute. here's one of my friends walking over:




it is beautiful there, that's for sure.



and a side note. i watched a whole lot of tlc on this trip. when i travel for work i like to keep the tv on for company while i'm in my room, typically on a friendly channel (can't watch food network if i'm hungry, so i switch to tlc). sometimes this is not a good experience like on monday when i watched some birthing baby show that may or may not have scarred me away from motherhood for another two years, but other times it works out great...like with a "what not to wear" marathon!



at first i was skeptical of this show...the first episodes i watched showed the grossest, most fashionably-challenged people EVER. gross. but jolee talked me into giving it another try, and i loved it!

i got hooked on an episode about some gross middle-aged balloon-sculptress lady who said she was often mistaken for a lesbian (probably because she dressed like she had no gender). by the end of the show she was so happy, her self-esteem obviously boosted with a few new outfits and a new haircut. i loved that they could improve her self worth with such simple measures, without implying that she lose weight or change herself drastically. cute.

from there i was more interested, for one because the hosts are hilarious, and for another because once in a while i could sort of relate to the featured people. (NOT because i'm frumpy...more because there were some who were trying to maintain their punky eclectic style and still be businesslike, etc. i told you i watched a lot of episodes!)

and then they featured a mormon girl from provo utah! i was so excited. probably because the girl was all artsy like my friend meridth (though mer is def more stylish than this chick started out). anyway, great show, so awesome to see a girl with modest cute outfits, and maybe i am hooked. thanks, tlc, for keeping me company for the past 10 days!