The Terrific Trio: Pickles, Mindy and Jackson, met up in Roanoke, Va for some Roanoke fun! Pickles and Mindy drove 4 hours to Roanoke and spent 2 days with their native Roanoke amigo Jackson. They went to the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star which was built in 1949 as a symbol to Roanoke's prosperity and thus gave Roanoke the nick name "The star city of the South". The Mill Mountain Star is 88.5 feet tall with 2,000 feet of neon tubing. It requires 17,500 watts of power to illuminate. There is also a great overlook which you can see on the (Starcam) if you go to ( www.roanokeva.gov/starcam).
They then took a short tour of the fancy shmancy historic Hotel Roanoke which was built in 1882 by the Norfolk and Western Railway . It has awesome murals, floors, mirrors and they even had an old phone which Pickles used to phone home. :0)
The three had some fun touring the shops in downtown and even went on a bikeride.
Virgina and Jackson! Our Tour guides!