Life in Texas: Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina Vacation

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina Vacation

We took a Fall vacation in September to Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina. We flew into Birmingham and drove to Tennessee to visit some good friends of ours we used to go to church with. We stayed Saturday night with them and went to church with them on Sunday. We had such a great time with Matt and Erin and their girls!

The next night we stayed in Nashville. We toured the Parthenon, ate German food, walked around the Grand Ole Opry, and the the Gaylord Opryland. The next day we went to Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, it was amazing. I feel like I have so much American history to learn about. We were going to go to the Country Music Hall of Fame but some friends who live in Huntsville, AL, invited us to come over for dinner and let our kids swim. They were our first friends in Germany. So we headed to Huntsville and visited the Space Center there first. Collin went to Space Camp several years as a child and it brought back memories for him. Then we saw Gary and Lisa.

After visiting we had to drive to Tuscaloosa because Collin had work meetings the next two days. I took the kids to the McWane Science Center the next day and to the Tuscaloosa Children's Museum the day after. Then we drove many hours after work to Blue Ridge in the Chattahoochee Mountains. We stayed two nights in a really cool cabin. We rested, played miniature golf, visited an orchard, ate lunch in Murphy, NC. Then we needed to head back to Birmingham, stopping first at Six Flags Over Georgia, only to be sadly disappointed that their website had their hours wrong and they were closed.

So we trucked on back to Birmingham and enjoyed our last night of vacation before flying out the next day. It was a really fun vacation and we were so glad we got to see a few friends on our trip.