This weekend Joe and I enjoyed one of his Christmas presents from my parents - 2 tickets to the World of Wheels car show and a night at the Sheraton. Here's a quick review of all we packed into about 28 hours.
Sat 12pm - Lunch at Jason's Deli - yummy!
Sat 1pm - Stopped to browse around Whole Foods - bought some yummy bread and cheese to take back to the hotel.
Sat 2pm - Checked in at the hotel
Sat 3pm - Walked over to the car show at the BJCC
Sat 3 - 6pm - Looked at lots and lots of cool cars. Below are a few of the pics Joe took. I know absolutely nothing about cars, but I enjoyed walking around with him looking at stuff. Joe knows a whole bunch about cars and tried to teach me some stuff, but I am just not good at learning car stuff. We got to see Henry Winkler (The Fonz), the original K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider and the new K.I.T.T. Joe had his picture made in the original car. He was pretty excited!
Sat 6pm - Headed back to the hotel. Spent a few minutes on the computer looking for somewhere fun to eat dinner. Settled on Fire + Ice. Relaxed in the room for about an hour, then got ready for dinner.
Sat 7pm - Left hotel to go to dinner.
Sat 7 - 8pm - Drove around Birmingham trying to get to the restaurant. We had directions and knew where we needed to go, but apparently the city decided to repave half of the streets downtown and so closed them. We drove around for an hour trying to figure out how to get from one side of town to the other (not easy when every cross street you come to is blocked). Finally, after over an hour of driving, we make it to the restaurant only to find that there is absolutely no parking anywhere - not for blocks. I guess that's what you get at 8 on a Saturday night in 5 Points. So after searching for a parking space for about 20 minutes, we'd had enough and decided to just go back to the hotel. Going back took another 30 mins or so because of blocked streets.
Sat 9pm - We get back to the hotel still having not had dinner. We were frustrated and hungry. So, we headed up to our room, put on pjs, turned on a movie, and called Pizza Hut for delivery.
Sat 9:30pm - Pizza arrives. We took the pizza and the bread and cheese from Whole Foods and had a picnic on the bed - And it was fun! We'd still like to eat at Fire + Ice, but we'll wait until the street construction is finished!!
Sat Sometime after finishing the pizza - we fell asleep and slept all night!!!! No interruptions from children.
Sun 10am - Checked out of the hotel
Sun 10:30 - Yummy breakfast at Ihop.
Sun 11:30 - Stopped at Academy to look around. I found some cute sketchers on sale for $5. Yay for good deals!!
Sun 12:45 - Bought tickets for She's Just Not That Into You. Sat through all the previews and the opening of Inkheart before realizing we were in the wrong theater. Quickly ran to the right theater (missing the first 10 mins or so of the movie) and watched a decent movie.
Sun 4pm - Back at home. Spent the rest of the afternoon playing with Natalie. Never thought I could miss her so much in just a day and a half!
Joe in the original K.I.T.T.
Some of the cars from the show. Sorry, I didn't pay attention to what Joe was saying about them well enough to comment on these pics. But, you can look at them anyway. These are definitely not all the pics he took, but just some of my favs.
