Good old fashion fun!

So what did I learn today? I learned that Cindy and I have something in common with a lychen and gnat larvae...when the two are paired up, we glow! We went to Anna Ruby Falls for a 9 pm night hike. We hiked to the falls and that was cool.

But on the way back, we got to see the legendary "glowing foxfire!" Apparently, for only six weeks a year, gnats mate, deposit their eggs in some friendly fungi. The fungi benefit from the eggs and as the lavae grow, they feed off the fungi. The cool thing is that they glow through bioluminescence when this happens. They can't replicate the process in the lab, but of course the only tried it at University of Georgia. Maybe they should have someone from UF help them.

During the day, we headed into the eccentric town of Helen, GA. We went passed all the Bavarian hoopla and headed to the good old fashion fun at Helen Water Park. We signed up to Tube the 'Hooch, grabbed our hot pink tubes and went. Lindsay fell asleep on the bus ride up the river and awoke to being stuck in a pink tube and drifting down the river. She, and we, enjoyed the rest of the trip.

We hit the grocery store, headed to the campsite, built the fire and they even let me cook some good ol' campfire food. Nobody starved, so I deem that a success and you know the rest about the evening. Kelsey has more...