Monday, August 30, 2010

Road Trip to Alabama!

We finally went on our first family road trip!  Out of places we decided to go to Huntsville, Alabama in the middle of August (it was 90+)!  We went to visit some friends of ours, Mike and Brianna and their two little ones, Tyler and Kalen.  The kids are very close in age to Brandon and Maya, in fact Bri used to watch Brandon when I was finishing nursing school.  It was so nice to be able to go visit and spend time with them.

While there we went and checked out the Davidson Space Center which was really cool and exciting.  The kids liked checking out all the cool exhibits from trying to push up a rocket to learning how to make a lava lamp and more.  There was a cool Mars ride and a rock climbing wall too!  We didn't get to see everything as it is huge and the kids were just tired of it all after a couple of hours but it was fun and we will have to visit it again next time!  Here are just a couple of pics from our visit to the Space Center.
A kid gravity ride...Kalen even went on Tyer and Brandon!
Brandon and Tyler plugging their nose and eating a Jelly Bean to see what it feels like to eat like an astronaut - kind of funny...
Brandon climbing to the top of the rock wall
Tim and I had to do the rock wall too :-)

The next couple days after that we went to a few different places.  The kids played a ton together and got along so well - hardly any arguing at all!  tim and I got to play in their church softball tournament which was fun.  I got stung by a wasp for the first time in over 20 years to find out when we returned that I am indeed alergic to them.  I even ran with some of the girls from the church one morning (3.5miles)!  We went to a splash pad in downtown Huntsville, we went to Point Mallard in Decatur, AL, and we went out on the lake in Bri's Dad's boat.  We had a wonderful time that was so relaxing (yet busy) and so nice to get away!  Thank you to Mike and Bri for having us (and Bri's Dad for taking us out on the boat) and we will definitely have to come again if you'll let us :-) Enjoy the rest of the pics...

Brandon and Tyler playing with Dominos
Kalen and Maya enjoying frozen Gogurt
Brandon and Maya at the splash pad
Maya and I in the lake...she loved laying on her back!
Brandon and Tyler taking a break from swimming...
Couldn't leave out a picture of Tim and I :-)
Brandon and Tyler on the tube!

1 comments:

Brianna said...

Yay! Love all the pictures! We really had a great time!! Come back soon :)