The COOPERS

Garet is 29!!!!

For Garet's birthday we celebrated a little different this year...

We had to clean the church and saw a toilet sitting on the side of the road...

Then we drove down to Panama City Beach, FL so we could see

TOP GUN in IMax 3D. He has always wanted to see Top Gun on the big screen and his dream came true!

Then we went to a delicious restaurant where he got his birthday dinner... thats right folks...

Lobster tail!

Then I made him a birthday cake on the actual day

I found a Captain America cake that he just had to have so I figured for his last birthday in his 20s I will try the best I can since I am not creative or a baker, so I found this cake on Pinterest.

Not to shabby for my first time baking a "real" cake and he LOVED it!!

Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum

As we were leaving Savannah we had to make one last stop at the Might Eighth Air Force Museum.

These are just a few pictures we took while at the museum but we hope you look up the history of the museum.. here is a little bit of it:

The Eighth Bomber Command (Re-designated 8th AF in February 1944) was activated as part of the United States Army Air Forces January 28, 1942, at Hunter Field in Savannah, Georgia. Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker took the headquarters to England the next month to prepare for its mission of conducting aerial bombardment missions against Nazi-occupied Europe. During World War II, under the leadership of such Generals as Eaker and Jimmy Doolittle, the 8th AF became the greatest air armada in history. By mid-1944, the 8th AF had reached a total strength of more than 200,000 people (it is estimated that more than 350,000 Americans served in 8th AF during the war in Europe). At its peak, the 8th AF could dispatch more than 2,000 four-engine bombers and 1,000 fighters on a single mission. For these reasons, the 8th AF became known as the "Mighty Eighth".

WW2 Veteran Bud Porter was a ball turret gunner. I recommend reading about him.

Just google Bud Porter WW2 Mighty Eighth Air Force. He has an amazing story.

B-17 wing.

Part 6

More of Savannah. Sorry this one is scrambled!!

The Jingle Bells sign and Church.

We ate at Lady and Sons which is Paula Deens restaurant. I had the chicken pot pie and MAN it was YUMMY!! I also tried Collard Greens.. NASTY!!!

Johnson Square

Part 5

Roundhouse Railroad Museum

This National Historic Landmark site is the oldest and largest existing nineteenth-century railroad operations complex in the nation. Construction began in 1850. Thirteen of the original structures remain today. The Central of Georgia Railwayhandled freight, passengers, maintenance, and manufacturing at this single location.

The complex is owned by the City of Savannah and has been operated since 1989 by the Coastal Heritage Society. Five of the buildings house permanent exhibits, including the roundhouse with its operating turntable. Visitors can see steam and diesel locomotives, rail cars, steam-powered machinery, model railroads, and a 126-foot brick smokestack with privies around its base.

We got our own personal tour from one of the workers so we got to climb in trains that were roped off.

They had a handcar that we actually got to try. It was so much fun and a great learning experience.

In front of the railroad museum is where one of the bloodiest engagements of the Revolution was fought.

Thanksgiving in Savannah Georgia part 4

The Pirates' House

Savannah's famous Pirates House is located on one of the most historic spots in Georgia. It is here that Trustees Garden, the first experimental garden in America, was located.

Around 1753, when Georgia had become firmly established and the need for an experimental garden no longer existed, the site was developed as a residential section. Since Savannah had become a thriving seaport town, one of the first buildings constructed on the former garden site was naturally an Inn for visiting seamen. Situated a scant block from the Savannah River, the Inn became a rendezvous of blood-thirsty pirates and sailors from the Seven Seas. Here seamen drank their fiery grog and discoursed, sailor fashion, on their adventures from Singapore to Shanghai and from San Francisco to Port Said.

These very same buildings have recently been converted into one of America's most unique restaurants: The Pirates' House. Even though every modern restaurant facility has been installed, the very atmosphere of those exciting days of wooden ships and iron men has been carefully preserved.