FDR

April 22, 2008

Yesterday we went on a field trip with my son’s class.  I had been looking forward to this trip all year.  As I have mentioned on of my favorite places is Pine Mountain Ga.  This is the home to not only Calaway Gardens but also FDR’s Little White House.  Now I am not a huge political person and I wont go arguing whom is better ect.  However, I don’t believe there are many American’s that can not see the good that FDR did.  So I am proud that he called Warm Springs Ga his home.  He did a lot for GA based on the life he saw when he came to Warm Springs.

OK, so my son’s class has been learning about the presidents.  He can tell you some unique tid bits of information.  He can tell you which presidents were assassinated.  Whom the 1st and 16th president were.  He can also tell you that President Taft got stuck in the bathtub and they had to by a new one :-)  His teacher takes advantage of the fact that Warm Springs is less then an hour from here to help the children learn.

So here were my son’s favorite parts of the trip:

1) Riding the church bus 

2) Seeing the bump gate (the gate were President Roosevelt entered the home, it is set up so that he could “bump it” with the car)

3) The car he road in

4) The 63 year old roll of toilette paper in the bathroom (yes,,,I said 63 year old TP,,,bet that is scratchy!)

5) The flags.  He wanted to see the flag for the State of Canada :-)  Uncle C and Aunt J will see the humor in this!

6) The Iron Lung

7) The warm water from the Springs.

All and all it was great field trip.  My next trip will be to the strawberry patch with my daughter.  It should be just as fun as last year.  She ate more strawberry’s then she put in her bucket!