{"id":13915,"date":"2020-12-30T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=13915"},"modified":"2020-12-30T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T00:10:55","slug":"grandgirls-stone-mountain-playground-12-30-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=13915","title":{"rendered":"Grandgirls! Stone Mountain Playground! 12.30.20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked the grand-girls up at Global Mall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-zhHGV8J\/0\/104cd467\/L\/IMG_9680-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were told we couldn&#8217;t come into he mall until 11:00 am when it officially opens.  Seemed like a reasonable request.  More places to explore.  The challenge is that most stuff doesn&#8217;t open till 9am at the earliest. I usually get them around 8:20 am.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-rkKR5rf\/0\/a8344a0a\/L\/IMG_3829-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe went to the Hong Kong Mall to check it out. They liked the rides the best.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-htxNfRc\/0\/720fb90d\/L\/63103068144__CC244E77-D6D0-4734-A7F2-7B5288B7905D-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-cMg6PqG\/0\/053bd656\/L\/63103070433__8531F0DD-8224-4F8F-99CD-5C290B5AEB2B-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-JhkPQj8\/0\/1b281b0e\/L\/IMG_3835_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-HfgLtBc\/0\/fb5b4ee5\/L\/IMG_3831_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seems like the majority of the stuff in this mall was oriented towards Vietnamese.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-LHZbmxb\/0\/e946a0db\/L\/IMG_3837_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-6x6j7bm\/0\/cddd8ae9\/L\/IMG_3840_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-WQpK6LV\/0\/f9eeb76e\/L\/IMG_3842_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They liked the stretch limo.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-wqkt6gg\/0\/81a014e3\/M\/IMG_3838_HEIC-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWe often call Everly &#8220;E.V.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-HJQVD9d\/0\/133e8c79\/M\/IMG_3839_HEIC-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We got one of these today.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-qgKF4LW\/0\/acbba324\/M\/IMG_3843_heic-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we first entered the store, we passed by the bakery.  Man, did it smell good.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-8RfFDwZ\/0\/834b3394\/L\/IMG_9681-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They were making baguettes.  I guess that was because of the French influence on Vietnam.<br \/>\nOne store had the Catholic flavored stuff.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-ZhXVggn\/0\/76f24221\/L\/IMG_9682-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-t85zwZd\/0\/c7fdde60\/M\/IMG_9683-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked this floor decoration.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-7DXFMnb\/0\/5951b196\/M\/IMG_9684-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They had a FLIR (infrared) camera that scanned people when you went in. You can see the two girls in red.  Top of my head is hot because I was wearing a stocking cap.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-VDctbMw\/0\/040c8791\/M\/IMG_9685-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEverly likes to blow puff balls.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-C8QmkQN\/0\/aaf4f280\/L\/IMG_9686-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Milder weather.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-NTrH4ct\/0\/1f0a7bd1\/L\/IMG_3845-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everly wore this yesterday. I told her she had to take it off before she went to the playground.  She wasn&#8217;t happy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-XpJPksK\/0\/00a1fd92\/L\/IMG_3847_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nStone Mountain was open so I had to change plans.  There were a LOT of people going on the cable cars.  I didn&#8217;t like that. So we went to playground instead.  It&#8217;s got some cool rope climbing stuff.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-p6rs9Cx\/0\/4d64e53d\/L\/IMG_3848_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-vTZrWxC\/0\/7bfc2a9e\/L\/IMG_3850_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-VpcMPVt\/0\/58333119\/L\/IMG_3855_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-WXnTzMz\/0\/6315a7c3\/L\/IMG_3856_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-Jv6NMdj\/0\/bb069e04\/L\/IMG_3858_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-F5Vr6RJ\/0\/63738830\/L\/IMG_3859_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-mrncFxt\/0\/13854721\/L\/IMG_3862_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-PKRQhLj\/0\/d5cad2bb\/L\/IMG_3867_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-FJwtwFS\/0\/c935a9d2\/L\/IMG_3869_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-gbTZ4Kb\/0\/fc103345\/L\/IMG_3871_HEIC-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-ZLdZKr6\/0\/b86275c9\/M\/IMG_9687-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-3Bxd3JT\/0\/497b79a1\/L\/IMG_9689-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-3tq8Kcd\/0\/d83b24d1\/L\/IMG_9707-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked the bark on this tree.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-tJpxmgH\/0\/7644d735\/M\/IMG_9696-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-GThRqjj\/0\/6e57ff25\/L\/IMG_9698-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-RN47D2t\/0\/d399b43c\/M\/IMG_9700-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like to get them to practice balancing when they&#8217;re walking. This was perfect for it.  Actually pretty challenging because it was rounded on the top.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-qc5Vkw6\/0\/db3b2763\/L\/IMG_9716-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-nDqP596\/0\/21fb7457\/L\/IMG_9717-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-k7HzJw2\/0\/7e3c889e\/L\/IMG_9718-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-b7CCRdD\/0\/b64e8e73\/L\/IMG_9721-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They had fun on this.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-wxbcF7L\/0\/1d7c2c00\/L\/IMG_9725-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-whzP6Tt\/0\/a83996ff\/L\/IMG_9726-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThey were making me pizza. Everly made the coffee.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-bWWp3Bp\/0\/345978e1\/M\/IMG_9729-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nCool.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-SDXfktG\/0\/c008b9ed\/M\/IMG_9731-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-bGNWKPg\/0\/56e19b97\/M\/IMG_9732-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-46xKst9\/0\/24e8a69d\/M\/IMG_9733-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-LwrKLRN\/0\/ad6eadf2\/M\/IMG_9734-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-Dd724sK\/0\/d87a8af4\/M\/IMG_9736-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-L9XJ9Wj\/0\/93fe9a5a\/M\/IMG_9737-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Studied Spanish.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-2hTvFzS\/0\/52222bfe\/L\/IMG_3873-L.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beauty.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-n25fbWH\/0\/bdd5a1bc\/L\/IMG_9738-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wrote a letter of recommendation for a friend of mine. I help with this sort of stuff regularly. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-sSwgm2F\/0\/88bb4bf8\/M\/IMG_3882_heic-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Went to my office to check the mail and water my ficus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Family\/Grandgirls-Stone-Mountain-Playground-123020\/i-bPp62sq\/0\/170ea188\/L\/IMG_9742-L.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked the grand-girls up at Global Mall. We were told we couldn&#8217;t come into he mall until 11:00 am when it officially opens. Seemed like a reasonable request. More places to explore. The challenge is that most stuff doesn&#8217;t open till 9am at the earliest. I usually get them around 8:20 am. We went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13919,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13915\/revisions\/13919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}