Mike had a class in Huntsville the last week of June. Our Pizza Maker stayed home alone to make pizzas and to register for college but the rest of us got to go with him for a week’s vacation. I have two friends from my Charlotte Mason group in FL that moved to AL before me. LeeAnn and her family who live right outside of Huntsville and Terri and her family who live in Birmingham.
Terri’s the one with the camera and LeeAnn is in green.
I emailed my friends a couple of weeks before our trip to see if I could see them there. They more than obliged. Terri’s sweet husband, Kent, worked it out so that he was able to work in Huntsville the same week that we were there and stayed at the same hotel as us. Then LeeAnn and her husband had us over for a cook out and swimming and told us all the best places to visit and went to some of them with us. We all had a blast.
LeeAnn has a beautiful home with extra rooms she hopes to fill with children from China.
Here are three of our boys.. the one on the left belongs to LeeAnn and Chuck, my Computer Programer, and Terri and Kent’s son, who is shooting up like a weed.
This is Terri’s little girl. She and our Programmer are great friends.
Can’t go to Huntsville and not visit the Space and Rocket Center.
We got an extra special treat and saw some Army guys sing and dance in the opening ceremonies of a covenate signing. I left my camera at LeeAnn’s and didn’t get a picture. 🙁 Chuck brought it up to me later that morning. 🙂
The Space and Rocket Center was OK. We went on a good day. It wasn’t too crowed.
The kids zoomed by most of the displays and went straight for the rides and rock climbing wall.
Needless to say, I don’t think we have any future Astronauts in the bunch.
It was Terri’s little girl’s first try at rock climbing.
She was very persistent and conquered the wall after several very good tries.
I think the highlight of the Space and Rocket Center was the hats we found in the gift shop.
So many hats and so little time.
Are our hats making you hungry as an alligator? We were.
We had to get one classic picture in before lunch.
And one of the mommies.
That night after the husbands got off work we all went to our favorite restaurant, Red Robin.They have the best burgers and shakes ever. We had the greatest time talking about things
we could do and see together in the future; rent a house boat, go camping…
It was located in one of the coolest shopping centers I’ve ever been to.
It’s like Down Town Disney. They even had a Apple Store.
The next morning we had some Mommie time and coffee at a huge sale at B&N.
Then took the kids up to a living history museum on top of a mountain called Burritt on the Mount.
We met some really cool docents. One thing that we learned was that the girls bedroom was always up stairs in the loft. You had to walk through the parents bed room to get to loft. Nifty. Right?
If you’ve noticed that these aren’t my pictures, it’s because I dropped and broke my camera the night before. 🙁 I am still recovering from the devastation. I did learn a secret way to get it to turn on. More details later. From what I learned on line it will cost almost as much to repair it as it will to buy a new one. 🙁I am leaving out so many details from our trip.. the first good Mexican food we’ve had since moving to AL at Rosie’s Mexican Cantina, hanging out at the pool, shopping for shoes, the Harrison Brothers’ Hardware store, accidentally finding the corn fields (streets should have only one name) then having my Mathematician pipe up from the back “Our hotel is just a little ways down that away.”, free breakfast and snack time at the hotel… it was a great adventure and we had a great time.
Love you all,
Jenny
You sure do get a lot of vacations!
Thanks for sharing. Sorry you broke your camera.