Long Grove, Illinois

When we were at Steve and Shay's last Friday, they mentioned that a Christmas movie had recently been filmed at Long Grove. Carl thought it might be nice to visit there -- he remembered an area of town to walk around and wanted to show it to me.

There's an 8'6" bridge in town -- glad we don't have Gracie with us!

We found a parking lot and started walking around...

We went into the Sock Monkey Museum -- who knew?

Sock monkeys all around!

Up on the rafters...

... in every corner...

This was the "Mayberry" room -- sock monkeys of all the folks who were on the Andy Griffith Show!

I think there must have been someone who collected Mayberry stuff...

... which also included sock monkeys...

... and they donated items (autographed pictures) to the museum (this one of Morgan Brittney with "Opie")...

... autographed picture of Barbara Eden with "Barney" and "Andy".

Commemorating 50 years of Andy Griffith Show

There was also a shop where you could purchase sock monkeys...

Sock monkeys all over the place!

On the ferris wheel...

Outfits that could be purchased for a sock monkey...

Various empty "shells" of animals that could be stuffed.

A train set...

... Carl making a call for help!

... and Superman and a friend (sock monkey) came to help!

Outside the store and museum

We also stopped in a Chocolate shop!

Heading out of town via the 8'6" bridge!

We didn't find the exact place that Carl thought he remembered, but we enjoyed our visit to Long Grove.