Mr. and Mrs. RCGG didn’t do much for our first Valentine’s Day as husband and wife. In fact, we were driving. We were on our way to Andersonville to see the Andersonville Civil War Prison Camp. We satayed Thursday night in a town called Cordele GA and then on Friday we made our way to Andersonville. On our way to the prison camp we stopped by Plains, GA. I’m not sure if this sounds familiar to you or not, but President Carter was from Plains. He moved back there after he left office. It is a very nice, quiet, everybody knows everybody kind of town.
Here are some of our pictures:
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| His bedroom as a child |
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| Walking down Pennsylvania Ave. during his inauguration parade |
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| replica of his oval office desk |
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| Secret Service gate house outside the Carters’ home |
After Plains, we went to Andersonville to see the prison camp. It was such a sad thing that happened and you could feel the emotion there. It felt like maybe they were still there. The prisoner of war museum is also at Andersonville. There artifacts and exhibits from all the wars there showing things about prisoners of war. It was really interesting.
We went to Old Fort Jackson in Savannah on Saturday. It was so much fun. It is a fort that was built for the Revolutionary War and used all the was through the civil war. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the fort.
We also wlked around the city for a little bit. We were so busy walking around and enjoying the city that neither one of us got any pictures while there. We went to The Paula Deen Store and I got a tank shirt, a Lady and Sons poster, some postcards, banana puddin’ lip balm, peach cobbler lip balm, and some other awesome stuff. We are going to make reservations for the restaurant the next time we go down. We also went to the Tervis cup store. It is right across the street from The Paula Deen Store. Have you seen Tervis before? They are an amazing cup company that you can any size and design. It is an insulated cup plastic instead of stainless steel for the non coffee drinkers.You can check them out here. I got an 24 ounce tumbler with a C on it and a bright pink lid. After Tervis, we walked around a little more. Savannah is beautiful and I loved checking out everything. We stopped at Leopold’s Ice Cream and had some peppermint ice cream. That was the best peppermint ice cream I have ever had. I was thirsty too, so I got a cherry coke. This wasn’t just a cherry coke from the fountain. This was one of the old fashioned cherry cokes with the shot of cherry syrup. It was SO GOOD!! You can check out everything that Leopold’s has and the history of the shop here.
For dinner Saturday night we went to The Pirates’ House. It was AWESOME! The food was AMAZING! You can find the history on the website. We had a little bit of a funny thing happen to us here. They have people dressed as pirates walking around and talking with the guests. We were at the Fort earlier in the day and they had people dressed as soldiers. We were waiting for our table and one of the pirates came up and started talking to us. He was one of the soldiers from the Fort. His pirate name was John Ashmore and his soldier name was Private Bradford. He was funny! We had to have our picture taken with him.
