Georgia in April

We went to Georgia to visit Cousin Lisa and her family. She was only 3 hours away from Darleen while at Ft Jackson, SC and they became her second family. We had such a great time in 4 short days! We went looking for silly bands for Katie, went to Wal-mart, cooked, ate at an awesome Mexican restaurant, made tie-dye shirts, went shopping at Charming Charlies, drove through Atlanta, and ate at The Varsity.
We started off by going to Baby land General Hospital, home of the Cabbage patch dolls.
I found my cabbage patch twin! Katie and I adopted suprise twins. She got a boy and a girl and I got twin boys!

It was so fun, I had wanted to go there since I got my first cabbage patch dolls in 1984~ Now they have new friends!We were there for the birth of a new cabbage patch baby and the little girls got to give it his first and middle name.
We found some sweet trucks on they way back.

We had a blast looking around in Gay, Georgia for the Big Red Oak covered bridge.
Found an old cemetery on this Big Oak Plantation, we thought might take us to the covered bridge. It didn't, it was a range and we got asked "if you ladies know where you are" we told the guy "actually no! we are looking for the Big Red Oak bridge!" He told us how to get there.We went to Senoia, Georgia this cool little town they filmed Fried Green Tomatoes in amongst other movies.

We ate lunch at the Redneck Gourmet diner. Looked at some antique stores and had a blast!
We also found a sweet man's type gas station, one stop shop! It sold knives, guns, ammo, food, lottery tickets, gas and had a pool table! Hoooey! Welcome to the South!

We had a great time looking for FDR little white house, and when we finally got there, they were closed. We talked to one of the guides and told him Darleen was deploying to Afghanistan in June and so he took us in and took our picture. He told us there were no tours that day anyway, because PBS was there filming a special on the FDR house that would air in the Spring 2011~

We saw the unfinished portrait that was being painted as FDR had a heart attack, then died later that day. We also got to see the completed portrait after his death.
When the last day was done, we wanted to make souvenirs of our trip. We made tie-die sister shirts.

On our way to the airport we stopped off at The Varsity, an old hot dog joint that was featured on Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives. It is the largest and oldest operating Drive in in the US

Thank you Cousin Lisa and the Carlock Family for showing us such a good time in Georgia! We will be back next summer when Dee gets home!