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Macon Georgia Cherry Blossom Festival

3/21/2009

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_21 March ‘09 Saturday

We were very casual in leaving the rally as there were a lot of motor homes trying to get out of the fair grounds at once.  There were those that I heard leaving very early in the morning, but I just didn’t want to rush anything.  Our plans were to run up to Macon


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_and check out the Cherry Blossom Festival.  The campground we chose is part of the Shriners property and well of the freeway noise.  We’re parked in a huge grass area that could hold 2 or 3 hundred other campers, but right now there are less than a dozen other RV’s here.

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_Boy did it get cold last night… It only got down to the high 30’s but when I woke up this morning, the first thing I did was run to the thermostat.  I turned it on to high and head back to bed to cover up until it was warm enough to take my shower.  Yesterday afternoon we noticed a lot of small tents going up behind us and it turned out that 400 Boy Scouts are having a Jamboree here this weekend.  Now if I thought it was cold, what did those youngsters think??? 

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_Our plan today was to head into Macon and find the visitor center, so after a pot of coffee and a bowl of cereal we were under way.  We were totally amazed at the beauty of Macon as we drove into town.  The architecture of the homes

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_and commercial buildings are outstanding and the parks that we passed were beautiful.  While in the visitor center we watched a great video of Macon and then purchased a couple of tickets for a tour bus that would show us the town.  We couldn’t help but notice that Macon has a lot of churches, and one of them is the central Cathedral.  The tour bus was one of those that would allow you to jump off and on, so when we arrived at the cathedral we decided to jumped off.

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_We really wanted to see the interior of this cathedral because the exterior was so grand that the interior just had to be absolutely incredible.

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_Well with the bus now out of sight, and us walking up the steep steps to the church, we noticed that they were having a funeral service and had closed the church to visitors for the afternoon…well, now what?  We walked around the block and enjoyed some more of the exterior and 2 additional Baptists Churches, and then waited about 15 minutes for the bus to return.  Unfortunately when the bus returned, it was heading back to the visitor center instead of continuing on.  Well, that turned out to be ok because when we asked the driver if there happened to be a “special place” that he might recommend for our lunch, he told us about the restaurant H&H. 

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_Not only did he know of a great place, but he would personally deliver us to the front door and pick us up after (all in the tour bus..).   While watching the video at the visitor center, H&H was one of the places that were shown in the presentation.  Another little note is; when Ophra was here for one of her shows, H&H was her restaurant of choice.  For us, we enjoyed a good dinner.  We both had fried chicken, corn, collard greens, rice and gravy, and our choice of desert.  We weren’t too sure what the meal was going to cost us as they don’t list the prices on the menu.  We knew that those who paid for the meal prior to us didn’t cry foul as they departed so it must have been alright.  Well it turned out to be $10 a piece…a good price for our dinner and a dinner/lunch house that we would recommend to anyone who happens to Macon Georgia.  We had no sooner finished our dinner and paid the bill and our bus driver walked in looking to see if we had finished…that’s what I call good service.  After arriving back at the visitor center we returned to the coach for the night.  Well we had no sooner arrived back at the camp ground and we were getting ready for the nights entertainment.  A stage had been set-up and a band was playing some great music, so we grabbed our beach chairs, a drink and some snaks and headed over to enjoy the sounds.



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_About an hour later we pulled up and headed over to the lake.  They were just setting up for a hot air balloon "glow".  The lake here is small but large enough for 10 hot air balloons could inflate and rise on a tether.  We were pretty lucky to be here, especially being camped here.  We had everything that we needed and with the day being full of exciting things to do and great food to eat, this "glow" was a wonderful climax to our day.

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