Bamboo Tourists

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Miles Today: 5.0

Miles This Year: 1584

Goal for the year: 1000 (so there...in your face!)

Nice run this morning.  My back is finally feeling better!!  Whoot Whoot!

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Bam-Boo!!

Well...we checked out the Bamboo Forest Saturday morning.  It is just s trail through several acres of very old, very large bamboo.  It was pretty cool and the kids LOVED it.  It was not the coolest thing ever, but it was free and kept us busy for over an hour.  Here is our tour in pictures...

Hitchin' a ride!!

Huge Trees!! 

There are A LOT of frogs in the Bamboo Forest

Roo's introduction to BARK!!

The kids had a lot of fun.  It is in Prattville, so the kids thought it was a long way away...road trip for them!!  If you need a little free activity for the kids, I would recommend this one.

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Surprisingly Touristy!!  

So...after our little visit to the forest, we decided to stay in Prattville for the morning and be tourists on Main Street.  Dub wanted to stop and see the dam and we ended up wandering around, shopping and eating lunch at Uncle Mick's Cajun Market.   The kids loved the Gumbo!  Ben loved everything!!  If you are up that way, for any reason, you should try it!

My favorites peeps!!

Got back home just in time to tuck those 3 in for their afternoon naps.  

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Gifts!

Once they were asleep, I was able to run some errands.  Good thing--I am about 4 wedding presents behind!  Check--got them all!!  

I decided a while ago to complete ignore Wedding Registries.  It always makes me feel weird for someone to know exactly how much money I spent on them.  It's like an instant judgement.  I'm sorry that generally, I can only afford about $15 a gift, which means that I can only buy you a spatula from Bed Bath and Beyond.  And-in my opinion, if it only costs $15, you should buy it yourself.  I cannot afford to buy your china, crystal or silver (I wish I could, I swear).

So, years ago, I just started going to antique stores and finding something that I love and I want you to have.  A. gift. from. me. to. you.

I got four amazing gifts for four great couples this weekend.  All antique, all loved before and all for $65.  Thank you very much!

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RTR!!!

I left Ben and the kids playing and I ran up to the country club to watch the Tide stomp on FAU on pay-per-view.  I only stuck around for the first beating, er, I mean half.  I was surprised to hear later that FAU even scored at all.  Come on, Bama!!  You can do better than that!

Alabama - 40  Florida Atlantic - 7

Roll Tide!

Watched more football all night!  Love love love fall in the South!

What a nice day.

Anyway...that's my day.  I swear...it'll get better.

Question for today...

Anyone ever been to the Bamboo Forest?  

Have you ever played tourist in a city 5 minutes away?

How do you feel about wedding gifts?

Any more awesome family day-trips in Alabama that I should know about?