We live pretty close to an extremely strange and surreal state park, which began life as a memorial to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson, and evolved later into a scary kl@n rallying point.

Now it’s an internationally integrated (if still heavily redneck) tourist trap, but with pretty walking paths, and this insanely huge carving of Davis, Lee & Jackson at the end of a bigger-than-a-football-field sized sloping lawn.

Noah liked it.

Actually, Noah loved it.

He was a little taken aback by being allowed to play in the prickly dead grass, we are still working on gracefully getting in and out of the ergo carrier, and we did have to fish a leaf out of his mouth, but on the whole, good times.

In spite of the surreal environment.