{MLK & Oakland Cemetery}

There is so much to see/do here in Atlanta. Every time we have family come to town we try to do new things. With this trip we decided to do more historical Atlanta things. First we headed to the Martin Luther King church and birth home. 

The stain-glass throughout the church was pretty. It is always so interesting to me that other religions just let you walk through their churches like they are museums. 

It was interesting learning more about the King family and talking to my parents about their childhood memories of that time. Dr. King's wife Coretta was so beautiful and seemed like such a good lady. We could not take photos in the birth house but they National Park service has restored the whole neighborhood to look as it did when he would have lived there. Its pretty neat to take a step back in time like that. 

 We sure enjoyed having Grammy and Grandpa in town. 

This is how excited daddy was to be done with school and enjoying some much needed family time! 

 We had lunch at the park and flew kites and played boccie ball. It was a pretty prefect park day. 

Nana and I have this odd love for cemeteries. I remember as a kid going to cemeteries on every vacation and trudging around New Orleans checking them out and having the boys lift up rotting wood and hundreds of roaches scattering from underneath. YUCK!! 

 We took a civil war walking tour of the cemetery and that was fun to learn so much about the plots and people who were buried their. This is the most photographed headstone in the whole cemetery. 

 Our tour guide told us the story of "tweet" the smallest grave in Oakland. Tweet was a mocking bird and the  guy who carved the headstones didn't know how to carve a mocking bird so he made a sheep. Kind of silly. 

This is one of the largest mausoleums there and it even has stain glass in it. They have 50 mausoleums in here.   It is really sad this cemetery is 88 acres and most of the graves belong to small children. It was sad to see so many small graves. You can only be buried here if your family already owns a plot and they only have about 15 burials a year here. Pretty crazy. 

Gray was 6 feet under Gray... 

hahah we thought this was pretty funny and totally photo worthy!

This cemetery was so beautiful to just walk around. I think we will be going back again to just enjoy a nice stroll. I love learning more about history and it was great spending the day with our family.