Highlights from today: (click here for the pictures)Robby loaded the car while we finished our breakfast this morning. Our first stop this morning was in Warm Springs to tour Roosevelt's Little White House. The museum and grounds were very impressive. We walked through his house and even had our picture taken with the President himself. After leaving Warm Springs, we had a quick lunch at Krystals in Columbus, GA.
Plains, Georgia was our next adventure. We toured Jimmy Carter's school, the train depot and drove past his current church where he teaches Sunday School occasionally. The highlight of Plains for the kids was taking their picture with the big peanut. Anderson and Reagan could not understand why that peanut didn't have eyes. We ended our Carter tour at his boyhood home which is a part of the Carter National Historic Site also. When we got out of the car there, we discovered that Graham had taken the lid off of his bottle and was drenched with formula. He seemed quite proud of himself but his mood quickly changed when we rinsed him off with water from our water bottle (out of the ice chest-that is all that we had and it had to be done).
A few miles down the road was Andersonville National Historic Site which houses a National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum. Anderson thought the name of this place was funny and Reagan was busy looking for her name somewhere. They were closing soon so we did a quick drive by and a quick walk through the museum. As we were leaving, the lady came out to give Reagan and Anderson junior ranger badgers-and they were quite proud of them.
Speaking of badges, Robby saw a real one. We might have been going a little fast on this holiday weekend and were stopped by one of Georgia's finest. Thankfully, we were only given a warning and told to slow down. Needless to say, 55 is very slow and it added a little bit of travel time to our day! After a few hours in the car and at some bathroom stop on the way, we discovered that Anderson's pants were wet-because he wasn't wearing a diaper (and we are still not sure how that happened). After a quick change, we were back on the road.
The Tuskegee Airmen National Site and the Tuskegee Institute were closed but since we figured it would be a while before we came back to Tuskegee, we decided to drive by them anyway. We even jumped out at Booker T. Washington's house to snap a few photos. It was only 20 more miles to our hotel and the kids were glad to get out of the car. We walked around the courtyard of this Courtyard Mariott. The boys had baths and they needed it and Reagan had a shower before everyone fell asleep.
We ended up spending around 8 hours in the car today and the kids did surprisingly well-Graham was unhappy with Mom the last hour since she was out of formula and tried to give him apple juice instead.
Reagan said her favorite part of the trip was "3 hotels." Anderson said his favorite part was the ballgame and Graham's favorite part has been getting out of the car seat. Josh and Zach's house is tomorrow and Reagan and Anderson can hardly wait!
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