November 4, 2010

     When we were at Wade's Mill in VA we had gotten a bag of grits and Sam had been asking for them.  So breakfast was grits, scrambled eggs and sliced country ham.  One of my goals while traveling in the "South"  is to have Cheese Grits with Shrimp!
     After breakfast I went to the laundry room since the last one had been closed to us for the season!  When I got back we headed out - first in search of food!  We went to Yonah burgers which is just up the road from the RV park.  Sam had a cheeseburger and I tried the vegetable burger.  As far as veggie burgers go - it was one of the best I had had.  We also got a peanut butter shake to share and fried pies for later. 

Babyland General

My picture - taken in the Reception Room

    








We then headed to Babyland General.  What a fun place!  This is a new building built in a Southern Style Home on 650 acres.  When you walk in there is a nurse sitting at a reception desk that greets you and asks you to sigh in.  Then you walk through the "museum" displays of some of the original cabbage patch kids.  It lists the original adoption fee and the value now.  Oh my gosh - who would have thought!  There was one of the original fee was $30. and in 2006 she was readopted for $36,000.! 

   Then you walk through the Nursery rooms.  One in all pink, one in all blue and one in just cute!  There are baby sounds - cooings in every room.  I don't know how but you could smell the sweet baby smells too!  After the nursery you go through the school area, hairdressers and then you come to the Mother Cabbage and the patch.  there are CPK growing - heads surrounded by leaves - sounds creepy but is cute.  Some turn and some go up and down.  There a huge crystal and crystal clusters in the patch with all the babies.  Some even light up and change colors.  It was special seeing the Cabbage Patch Baby Boy born on David's birthday! 

David's Birthday Brother

     Babyland
General is free but we had been warned we wouldn't be able to leave without spending money.  Sooo true - way to CUTE!

     On the way back to the RV we stopped at a Pawn & Gun shop - that's where Sam went - and a local Artisan shop - where I went.  Sam saw several "things" he would like to bring home.  I got some cute postcards and bought a signed by the author book called "Distant Voices".  It is all about the Nacoochee Indian Mound.  We had passes the mound on our way to the RV park on Tuesday and want to know more about it.
     We went back to the RV and relaxed for the night.