Jim and I visited Al and Sue in Chickamauga before school starts back next week. We had such a fun time we didn't want to come home. Friday we sat around talking and catching up looking at old photos. Saturday morning Sue fixed a huge breakfast - I could get use to! Next we road the fourwheeler and golf cart around Al's property.
Jim said he was never buying me a four wheeler because I went too fast and scared him. 
This is what he wants as his next toy! 
Al sat back and watched us play. He has more toys than time.
Ok, so the fourwheeler was fun, but I was ready to drive some real wheels. Al and I took a spin around town in his Prowler. Not many of these cars were made and they really turn heads. It was an amazing ride - yes I like fast cars. He kept telling me "get on it, you're not going fast enough".
The top went down and off we went.
Fun, Fun, Fun!
After we got back we played cards and pool, ate shrimp, cheese, crackers and grapes enjoying the rest of the day. Dinner reservations were made at the awesome High Point Restaurant in Monteagle. They have the BEST food I have ever eaten. The 1929 mansion, presumably financed by Al Capone, is a three-story compound with escape hatches on the roof and underground tunnels in the basement used by Capone for the transferring of liquor in the twenties and early thirties. It is rumored the floors were complete with a lining of sand beneath each one, suspected to prevent the penetration of a bullet. Local legend reveals tales of Capone and John Dillenger lounging outside on the mountain stone patio having drinks and playing numerous hands of cards.
The photo on the dressing table here in the ladies room is supposedly one of Capone's mistress's.
We sat at the back left table next to a warm fire in the fireplace.
Thank you Al & Sue, we had a fantastic time and can't wait to visit again!
