Tuesday (4/28)  Birmingham, AL.  Tried to go to the Golden Flake potato chip factory tour but it was booked until the end of MAY!!!  So we went to the Arlington House (see picture,) which is the only remaining antebellum house in Birmingham.  It was saved from being burned by the Union soldiers because its owner was a Judge who talked them out of burning it.  

On to Montevallo, AL to visit the American Village.   The village has a full-size reproduction of Mount Vernon, Washington's home in Virginia; a full- size reproduction of the Oval Office in the White House; and traveling miniature museum (see picture of poster) of the history of the United States from the early 1600 to the 1960's.  The exhibit also includes a set of 1/10 scale figures of each president and the first ladies.  It was a way for people who could not travel to see such things as where the Declaration of Independence was signed  to see miniature versions right in their home towns.  It cost $250,000 in the 1960's to make and it was not a success.  It now has a great home in the American Village.

In the evening, we checked into a campground in Mobile, AL.   We will be staying there for three nights.