Friday morning I woke up and went for a run very early. The humidity was already through the roof. We enjoyed a big breakfast and went back down to the barn for another ride. We each got on our horses. James rode Boss, I rode Cheif, Caey rode smoky, Julia rode Dale and molly rode Little Gal. We rode for about two hours including a water break at the tea house. The kids enjoyed it so much and it made me very happy to see them having so much fun. After our ride we went to the train tracks and put pennies on the tracks. Then we met up with Mike, who works for the timber company and he took us on a visit to a logging site. Mike took us into the woods and we saw the operation up close. We were able to see the cutter cut down rows of trees so quickly and pile them up. Then another rig comes and scoops up the pile and drags it to the loader. The loader then picks up the pile and strips it off all the branches and loads it into a logging truck. The kids were pretty exhausted so we went back to Galio and had some lunch and naps. After naps we tried our hand at fishing but with the heat nothing was biting and we did not have the patience to wait it out. The kids wanted to swim in lake Bob so we did. We all had a ball jumping off of the dock over and over until it was time for dinner. We ate fried catfish, hush puppies and stewed okra. A powerful storm blew through and knocked the power out but Galio has a generator so we were not effected. At dark we took another Polaris ride and went to get our smooshed pennies from the train tracks. Then william called to say it was time for a firework show at lake bob. He shot off a bunch and the kids did little ones too. It was a great night and lots of fun.
Saturday morning we got everyone up at 5am and met william and his two daughters to go pig hunting. Unfortunately we didn't get a pig but that's how it goes. We had o ur last big breakfast, cleaned up, said our goodbyes and hit the road. It was an amazing stay at Galio.



