A very presidential Presidents Day!

We had a wonderful adventure to Southwest Georgia over Presidents Day weekend. We took the back roads, enjoyed the scenery and learned to appreciate the south a bit more. We started out early Sunday morning and drove through towns like Milledgeville and Macon to get to our first destination; FDR's Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia.

As you might remember FDR suffered from the affects of Polio. He believed that these warm springs helped him and built a facility to help others and a home nearby. As we were leaving, Erik and the kids continued to the car as I stopped at the counter to talk (because that is just what I do)to this lady named Suzanne. I wanted to tell her that my mother is also named Suzanne. This lady had a picture of herself in 1925 in a frame. She explained to me that she was a patient there and talked about the first time she met the president he asked if he could call her "Suzy" so from then on they called him "Rosy."

That night we stayed near Cordele, Georgia in a Resort on Lake Black Shear. On the way to Cordele we stopped at Andersonville, the Civil War POW camp for Union Soldiers, and National Cemetary and POW museum.

The next morning we took a train from Cordele to Plains, Georgia where we enjoyed some peanuts and heard President Jimmy Carter speak at his alma mater, Plains High School. There were only a couple hundred people there, and Rosalind corrected him periodically through his speech.


It was indeed a very presidential holiday!