2011 Vacation - Cabbage Patch Hospital

Our next stop on our roadtrip was to Cleveland, GA to the Cabbage Patch Kids Babyland General Hospital. (Side note, our GPS took us the back-roads way...it was quite a sight!) I was nervous about how Caroline was going to react. She's not 100% consumed with babydolls like a lot of little girls her age are. Truth be told, we were probably going more so because I wanted to, not necessarily because I thought Caroline would enjoy it. Plus, CPK don't look quite like they used to. In my opinion, they are a little creepier looking than before.

Anyways, back to my story. :-) The house was interesting, to say the least. The outside was BEAUTIFUL. But, the inside looks like a 1960's institution. These employees are S.E.R.I.O.U.S. about their jobs. All employees looked like old-timey nurses. The LPN "Licensed Patch Nurse" in the nursery was rocking a swaddled Cabbage Patch baby. And Wally got yelled at for walking out of the "hospital area" into the "waiting area" while holding a non-adopted doll.

Caroline was not all too interested in looking for her own doll. She just had fun picking them up and sitting them down. And straightening them up. And fixing their hair that might have been out of place. She's kinda a neat freak like that. I ended up shoo-ing Wally and Caroline out so I could leisurely find a doll for Caroline without her telling me that she didn't want any of them. I was determined for her to have one. Of course, I still haven't taken a picture of her with her new baby doll.

These two dolls are Xavier Robert's first two dolls he sewed. Aren't they creepy? Aren't you glad they're better looking now? You probably can't tell in this picture but the doll on the left was sold at an auction for $30,000. That's right. And turns out, I have one of the originals, too. Not THIS original, but close to it. My mom was on to something back then!

Caroline was really excited to be arranging the dolls in the chairs at this table just so. I guess she thought they weren't in the right places before.

My little beauty. She more so enjoyed walking on the brick pavers "like at gym-astics!"

Oh, another thing - we witnessed a real live birth! He was their "on-call doctor". He made sure the mother was 10 leaves dilated, listened to the heartbeat with a real stethoscope, cut the umbilical cord, etc. etc. etc. I told you these people were serious. Oh, and it's an "easy-odomy" instead of an "episiodomy". (I know I spelled that wrong.) AND...they've never had to do a "c-section or a cabbage-section". I mean, come on....

This was about 3 minutes after leaving the hospital. She was wore out!