Presidential bunker Tour and a fab Dinner party

Sat I was up at 8 because we needed to leave at 9 so we could make it to the Greenbrier Resort for a tour of a Congressional bunker that was hidden from view for 30 years.

Ok first you should know I LOVE politics and all things presidential....especially when it comes to the USA andI'm a historian constantly reading history books and researching different topics.

so while Eisenhower(he's the man before JFK for those of you scratching your heads now)was president America was Obviously involved in the cold war(I say Obv but of course none of you know that)President Eisenhower was afraid of a Nuclear attack on Washington DC and so he chose the Greenbrier Hotel as the location for a Bunker(a place where they can send either the president or in this case the Senators and The members of the house of representatives to be safe housed)the bunker took 3 years to build and was completed in 1962(JFK was president by then-also for those who are asking yes it was just the year before JFK was assinated)and was kept hidden under the floor of the hotel for 30 years until in 1992 a writer for the Washington Post outed the bunker.

So we went on a tour of the bunker(OMW its sooooo cooool I loved it!You know when I'm First lady I'd like to know the surroundings of my safe house ;-) ).
The bunker obviously is not in use anymore.......so when my husband gets elected we'll have anew bunker ;-)

The Hotel looks alot like the White House,they even have a model of the hotel built out of candy and ginger bread(just like at the white house)on display in the main lobby.

The hotel is beautiful and as soon as my sister gets here and brings me my phone plug I will upload pics.

After the tour which lasted and hour and a half I went off to rehearsal..........

Then on our way to our dinner party we stopped at The General Lewis Inn(which is haunted they say...)to look at the old Civil war memrobilia that they have (you know me ,I can't resist a bit of civil war memrobilia epspecially when there are photographs of Teddy Rooselvelt....-Yes I prefer Franklin but a Roosevelt is a Roosevelt and in the words of some guy I know in Cape Town...."You Take What You Can Get")

We then went to our dinner party at Sarah and Jim's where I met a host of people who are just the nicest bunch of people you ever met!Really friendly and welcoming,Goood Mexican food and Margaritas and red wine(of Course,its like water around here).

Good day had by all
xxx