Callaway Gardens

2 years ago, we took the kids to Lake Lanier Islands Magical Nights of Lights, last year, we took the kids to the Dancing Lights at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, and this year, I was looking for something different.  I decided on Callaway Gardens Fantasy in Lights.  We left Tuesday afternoon and headed south. 
This one was having a little too much fun :).

We had dinner, and checked out the lights (in the rain).  We had reservations to ride the "jolly trolley" but since it was raining, we had to go in the car instead.  That was fine with the kids, though, they liked "driving" with Daddy :).
Here are my people in Santa's Village :)

Here are the kids taking turns driving :)

And this was my favorite picture of the lights.

And the best part for the kids..... Sleeping in a hotel, of course :)

Wednesday was the PERFECT day for exploring the gardens.  And they had it all decorated for Chirstmas.  It was beautiful!

Here they are about to go check out the butterflies in the conservatory.  The sign said the butterfly count this week was 1000.  It was so much better than I expected.  I thought we'd be searching and searching to find one, and would be lucky to see 2 or 3, but they were EVERYWHERE! and they were Beautiful!

One of the things we saw at the gardens was the set for "Victory Garden." It was pretty cool, and even though there weren't currently vegetables growing in all the vegetable gardens, it was still nice.

And I know this will be hard to believe, but I think that my kids' favorite thing to see was the lake, beach, and dock.  Yeah! They wanted to take their shoes off and play in the sand. And when we got to the side walk, out of the parking lot, they made a B-line!

And look at the sky!!!!!!!!!!! Love this picture!