Post #9: Its Leftovers time!

Morning All,

We've been at Stone Mountain Georgia since leaving Ft Walton Beach, Fl (350 miles) on Tuesday.  Arrived in the rain at 5:30 PM and luckily my brother-in-law Steve was already here to help with directing me into the site.  It truly is the Queen Mary when backing up.  Site is in the forest and very peaceful.

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  My two sisters, Cindy (KY) & Michele (Las Vegas), and my brother-in-law, Michele's husband were here staying with our Uncle Charles who is 87 young.  April, Cindy's oldest, and Bobby and Mackenzie also drove down from Louisville to join us.  We performed the annual ritual of cooking all day Thursday (2 turkeys and all the fixins) and then having a great feast about 7:30PM.  This holiday, so unique to the US, truly serves as the annual opportunity for family members to come together, give thanks and to partake of our natural bounty of foods.  We can extend our gratitude to Abraham Lincoln for making this day a national holiday allowing all of us the opportunity to come together as family.

Friday we all had lunch at Fontaines in Virginia Highlands (Atlanta Greenwich Village) : lobster bisque and PO'Boys sandwiches and did some Black Friday shopping.  On Saturday,  since Steve has not been to Atlanta before, we drove him around Atlanta to see the Carter Library, Martin Luther King's gravesite, Ebenezer Baptist Church, downtown Atlanta, the Rialto Theater (Gone With The Wind), Aquarium, Coca-Cola Museum and finished with a visit to The Varsity.  The Varsity is the famous hot dog place next to Ga Tech which has become an icon of Atlanta from the 1920's.  They now sell more than 3-5000 hotdogs a day.  Hmmm Hmmm!

Evenings have been at Uncle Charles' and spending time reminiscing about our family and just being with each other.  Tomorrow we will visit Warm Springs, GA the site of Roosevelt's GA retreat and site of his death.  Its about 2 hours SW of Atlanta.

As for Wild Thing, our only issue here in Atlanta has been the weather.  They are experiencing colder temperatures than normal for this time of year.  Temperatures have dropped down below freezing for the last 2 nights.  Thus giving me an opportunity to worry about an additional issue:  FROZEN PIPES!!!  The trailer has been toasty with the heat pump running but was sure that with temps at 30F we might have an issue.  So far so good.  I did bring in the water filter off the water tap and went to Home Depot (Mecca of all great things...) and bought heat tape.  Of course when I got back and after looking at the belly of the trailer, I could not find any exposed water pipes to wrap apart from the external water source for a outside shower.  So used the heat tape to wrap the water hose and the water source on the trailer.  Went through the book last night trying to find the valve cutoff for the outside valve but no luck.

On Tuesday AM we head SE to Beaufort , SC to visit our friends Diane & Joe Roney, owners of Roney Tours, INC.   We are looking forward to our extensive tour of the area while we are there.
All the Best