Gold Rush 2008

For a change of pace, Jen and I met up with Geoff and Vanessa today and travelled to Dahlonega, GA for Gold Rush.  Gold Rush is the annual arts and crafts fair that the city of Dahlonega puts on somewhat in conjunction with North Georgia College.  I'm not an arts and crafts kind of guy, but the weather was gorgeous and it afforded us a taste of life to come.  

We met up with our other friends, Pat and Mel once we got up to Gold Rush.  Essentially, the entire town shuts down and the downtown area is transformed into tent after tent of crafts and food vendors.  It looks a lot like this:

We also had Ellie (Geoff and Vanessa's daughter) and Shay (Pat and Mel's son) along with us for entertainment.  Shay almost got airborn here and seems to love it:

Ellie, on the other hand, crashed out while Geoff enjoyed some ice cream:

Pat enjoyed a corn-dog, unfortunately, with ketchup, don't know what that's about.  I eat my corn-dogs with mustard, but I'm in the minority, evidently.

Shortly after that, Shay decided to pass out as well...  I can't say I blame him, it was an absolutely perfect day to take a nap outside.

After Gold Rush, we made our way to the park in Cumming for church.  Jen and Shay were chillin' (quite literally, it cooled of pretty quickly).

And finally, an action shot.  Dan and Jake having fun after the service: