Road Trip to Alabama

I have taken on quite the road trip. The kids and I drove to Huntsville, AL to visit Sam’s Grandma Lil. We set off on March 31st at 5:30am, I do better in the early morning, rather than the late night. Debbie came with us and it was so helpful to have her to take turns driving and to give the kids snacks. It was an 11 hour drive that took us 12 hours with stops. The kids were good thanks to the portable DVD player. We arrived in Huntsville at 5:30pm exhausted but happy to be out of the van.

On Tuesday we visited the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. Gavin was in his glory. There was a ton to see and do. They even had amusement park rides. My kids were a little young for some of the rides, but they enjoyed the ones they could ride. The rockets were absolutely huge and they even have a space shuttle on display. It is also where they hold space camp which Sam attended when he was a kid. It was kind of neat because the doors read, “Welcome Future Astronauts, Scientists, and Engineers,” and years later Sam became an engineer.