The Kings of Huntsville

Our weekend in a nutshell

*edit* Ok, so it is a very large nutshell! */edit*

This holiday weekend my parents and brother came to visit. We had a great time!
Saturday we drove to Tullahoma for the Air show. That was a lot of fun! I especially enjoyed the fighter demos. Of course, I forgot sunscreen, so we all got sunburned. Especially me! But that’s ok. My dad and I both had some disposable cameras we wanted to take up, so we took the air show as that opportunity.

On the way home we stopped at a Wal-Mart to get stuff to grill out. We were going to drop our cameras off, but that wal-mart had their one hour machines down for an unknown amount of time. Since it was not our usual wal-mart, we decided not to leave our cameras there for later pickup. Then while the grill was going, Rick and I went to our regular wal-mart to drop off the cameras and pick up some things we had forgotten. Apparently the photo center was about to close, so they told us to put it in the box and it’d be ready after 10:00 the next morning.

Sunday, we all got up to go to early service to hear our friend Rachel give her first sermon. It was a really good one too! My parents even thought so.

After church we ran home to get a change of clothes to go to Lookout Mountain and Ruby Falls! On our way out, we decided to go by Wal-mart to pick up our developed cameras. We get there, give the photo center our names. They ask when we dropped it off. We tell them the night before. They rudely ask what time. We tell them it was 6:30-ish, but we were promised it would be ready after 10:00. They rudely tell us that they just opened and only started developing and it would be ready after 12:00. Me, irritated, rudely tell them they need to correct their Saturday night staff. We don’t have time to wait around, so we decide to hit Wal-mart again on our way back from Ruby Falls and Lookout mountain.

Fast forward a few hours. Get to Ruby falls, no parking. Decide to go to lookout mountain first. Lookout mountain was really cool! Rick and I forgot our camera though, so no pictures. Maybe mom will send me hers and I’ll get them posted! Go to Ruby Falls. Wait a while to get on the elevator down into the mountain. Tour time is supposed to be one hour. They get us down in the belly of the mountain and tell us that because of the holiday weekend there were more people, and therefore, tours were taking a bit longer. This leads to lots of stops in the caves to let the groups leaving pass. This would be fine, if we were not stuck inside a mountain with no room to sit, and limited air flow. But, when we finally got the the falls, I will say it was beautiful. Oh also, Rick is tall, the caves inside the mountains not so much. Led to much funny-ness. He only hit his head once (well, really twice, but the second time was when we were almost back up and he was tellling someone he only hit it once).

Fast forward a few more hours. Get to Wal-mart. Photo center is closed. We go to the layaway counter right next to the photo center and ask the lady there if she can help. She wasn’t confident that she knew her way around the photo center, and I was starting to think she wasn’t going to help. But after much looking, she did find our pictures. Dad thanked her and told her she was the first person at that Wal-mart who actually helped us. We decide to just take them to checkout since there was no one there to take off any amount for those that didn’t take. And sure enough, I had 3 pictures that didn’t take at all. Oh well, at least we got them.

Since we were so tired and it was late enough, we ordered pizza for dinner Saturday night.

Yesterday my parents had to leave early. Rick and I started the day off slowly to recover. We watched a movie at home (The Princess Diaries, which actually was not that bad), then we went to Qdoba for lunch, to the mall so I could use a coupon I had, to a couple of shoe stores until we both found some athletic shoes we liked, to Target to get some groceries (fed up with Wal-mart right now, plus we were already in the Target shopping center). Then we went home, Rick mowed the grass and did his running. I worked on laundry, and got caught up on feeds. We ate a dinner of leftovers and had a relaxing rest of the night.

Thursday we leave for San Antonio. This is a trip I’m very much looking forward to. Plus, that means I have a really short week! We will work on Thursday though, but we get Monday and Friday off of work this week! Score!

I hope everyone else’s weekend was just as good as ours. Despite our frustration with pictures, that was only a small, unimportant part of our weekend. We had a really great time this holiday weekend, and it was a much needed break from everything!