Archive: October, 2006
Caitlyn’s Birthday
We went down to Middletown for Caitlyn’s birthday. She had a party at Libby Lu in the mall. This is totally a girly store. They had lots of sparkly things, and the staff there will do makeovers and dress up with the girls. What a great place for a little girl to have a birthday party. It was very cute. Afterwards, they had pizza and cake in the food court. Ali and I had cake but passed on pizza so we could go to Johnny Rockets for lunch.
Happy birthday, Caitlyn!
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Sweet Home Alabama
The rest of the time in Alabama we just hung out with everyone we could in the time that we had. Jeromy and I really wanted to go sky diving, but we just couldn’t make it work out — Maybe next time. We did make it to Cheeha to fly kites. That was mostly fun, though we seemed to have quite a few kites this time that didn’t want to fly. On our last night there, Jeromy took us all to Fuji’s (a Japanese steakhouse) for dinner. This was also Cameron’s birthday dinner. After dinner we said sorrowful goodbyes to everyone.
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Noccalula Falls
After Fiddler’s we had set it up so that we would spend the week in Anniston visiting family. We hadn’t been down since Nana passed away last November. It was much too long to be away.
On Monday Dad, Nancy, Ali and I went to Noccalula Fall, another Alabama attraction I had been telling Ali I would take her to but never delivered on. It is located in Gasden, AL, and it’s the site of a not so magnificent waterfall, at least this year away, due to a drought over the summer. Noccalula was an Indian (maybe princess) who killed herself by jumping over the falls the night before she was to wed.
The grounds here are nice to walk around on. They’ve recently added a pioneer village which is made of up old homesteads taken from … Read More »
The Day After Fiddler’s
On Sunday we went to visit with Mandy, Cameron, Buck, and Judy. Cameron’s birthday was about a week away so we went ahead and gave him his birthday present. One of them was the Play-Doh Doggy Doctor; Cameron and I had a good time playing with it. It was good to see them again, and I was sure glad we made time to get by there.
Afterwards we went to Ave Maria Grotto. I have been telling Ali about it ever since I’ve known her, but we never made time to go by and check it out. It is located on the grounds of Alabama’s only Benedictine abbey. There are over 100 miniatures of places from all over the world. They were created by Brother Joseph Zoettl throughout the time he spent at the … Read More »
Fiddler’s in ’06
Fiddler’s was a blast as always.
Ali and I arrived in Birmingham around 11am and we drove over to Anniston. We told Granby and Aunt Leigh that we’d give them a ride up to Athens. It was Leigh’s first time; I hope she enjoyed herself. Since we were in Anniston around lunch time there was only one thing to do — Go to Mata’s for lunch. This is hands down the best pizza known to man, so if you find yourself in Atlanta, Birmingham, or within a few hours of Anniston and you don’t make a trip to Mata’s, your are really doing yourself a disservice.
In Athens all the usual suspects show. We were even graced with the presence of Will, Meghan, and Liam. They hadn’t been in quite a while. … Read More »