I went to the YMCA to workout on the machines. We stopped at Aldie for Milk, eggs and other sundries. Then on to Wal-Mart for hot sauce.
As we were leaving Wal-mart I stopped at Auntie Anne’s Pretzels where I ordered a cup of mouth-watering cinnamon sugar bites with frosting dip. I ate them in the van and had cinnamon sugar everywhere. Yum, Yum!!!!!
We took our groceries home and hubby changed into his walking shoes. We stopped at the post office and then to get our pool water checked.
We stopped near the Brown’s Ferry turn off to take a picture of the red oak tree stump that was saved after April 28, 2014, EF3 Tornado that hit at the Holt’s home. Sitting in the Holt’s front yard was the red oak stump and it was topped with a wood carving of her Irish setter, Charley.
The real Charley was standing in the driveway, he gave us a friendly bark as if to say, HELLO.
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| Charley |
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| Charley |
It was after lunchtime so we stopped in Athens, Alabama at Burger King. Hubby ordered two one-dollar hamburgers and I ordered a large onion ring and to drink I ordered large water with lemon. I was not very hungry because I had filled up on the cinnamon bites.
We traveled down Highway 72 through Huntsville, over Mono Sano Mountain down in the valley of Hampton Cove.
We stopped atop the Scenic Gunter Mountain at the Kate Duncan Smith Daughters of the American Revolution School.
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| Kate Duncan Smith Daughter of the American Revolution School |
I can just imagine sitting in the classroom looking outside and longing to be in the woods below.
There was an overlook, where we parked to take pictures of farmhouse, fields, and the woods.
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| View from School down into the valley below |
This school was built out of fieldstone's, cut sandstone and pine logs in 1924.
The campus has twelve buildings built between 1924 and 1957 and includes about 240 acres.
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| Kate Duncan Smith Daughter of the American Revolution |
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| Kate Duncan Smith Daughter of the American Revolution School |
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| Kate Duncan Smith Daughter of the American Revolution School |
Cathedral Caverns State Park located in Kennamer Cove was our next stop.
There were a total of ten in our group and each person paid fifteen dollars except our tour guide.
The massive entrance to Cathedral Caverns is 126 feet wide and twenty-five high.
Inside we saw Big Rock Canyon, Mystery River, and Stalagmite Mountain, Frozen Waterfall, Goliath, huge stalagmite column that reaches the ceiling, the shadow of Abraham Lincoln, Darth Vader’s head, Hurd of elephants butts and many other sites.
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| Cathedral Caverns |
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| Cathedral Caverns |
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| Cathedral Caverns |
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| Cathedral Caverns |
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| Hurd of Elephants |
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| Darth Vader’s head |
Our jolly, funny, tour guide drove a golf cart in and out of the cave.
On the way back my knees were starting to hurt. So hubby and I jumped on board. It was a steep ride out of the cave and we had to hold on tight to keep from being dumped off.
The walk itself was over two miles round trip up and down a steep slippery walkway.
We thanked our tour guide and headed into Guntersville. We stopped at Wintzells Oyster House where we shared a plate of delicious fried Shrimp and Oysters dipped in cocktail and tarter sauce.
We each ordered baked potato covered in butter, with buttered bread and hushpuppies
For dessert,t we ordered blackberry cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream. Yum, Yum!!!!
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| Wintzells Oyster House in Guntersville, Al |
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| Wintzells Motto My Town |
We stopped in Hampton Cove to fill up with gas. Hubby took the wrong turn and we came out of the Southside of Huntsville instead of coming across Mono Sano Mountain.
I was so sleepy on the way back and I think I drifted off before we were home.
We were home at about nine pm.
We had a great day.
