Our Road Trip

So the weekend rolled around again, and Brandon and I were wondering what we were going to do. We have been in Birminhham the past several weekends, just enjoying being at our house and not having to travel.However, we had NOTHING planned and wanted to do something different. So we decided to go on an Adventure!! We left yestetday morning and drove on 2 lane back roads up to Florence Alabama. The ride was quite pretty. We stopped at a national forest and walked down the trail where you would go to put your canoe in. It was so quiet and peaceful. The wate in the river was so blue and green. As you know it has been FREEZING here, so there were icicles hanging all over the rock next to the river. They were HUGE about 6 feet long and hung into the river. I thought they were so pretty. Oh yeah, and Barkley went with us, and he enjoyed running up and down the hills and smelling all the new smells! We then got back in the car and travel on to Florence. We drove around the campus of UNA it is sooo pretty. Then we ate at a local mexican restaurante, that was quite delicious!!! Then we headed home. But not with out going throuh Tuscumbia and driving by the birth house of the one and only...Helen Keller!!!! Unfortunately we were to late to go on the tour (guess we will have to save that for our next adventure!) The house is quite lovely! after that final stop we continued our drive back to Birmingham. I will say we had a great time, and plan to tour north alabama (Huntsville and all) next, only this time we will have to make a few more stops to sight see and or shop along the way!! Hope everyone has a great Holiday on Monday, Brandon and I are going to meet with as mortgage broker to get our ducks in a row, so we can start house hunting...how exciting!!!! I will let you know how that exprience goes. Until then...