On the Road Again

Tomorrow wraps up our week long trip from Memphis to Mobile to New Orleans to Camden with a final stop in Birmingham.

Last Sunday we pulled into Mobile around 3:00 p.m. Matt drove a very large moving van and the kids and I followed in my truck. After the long trip, we were ready for a big meal, so we headed to the local Mexican restaurant.

Here are the kiddos and Pops outside.

We made an extra stop at the Dairy Queen afterwards. Walker didn't even finish his milkshake. He was one tired boy! Oh, and by the way, I am still on a quest to have a Tagalong blizzard. Can you believe the Mobile DQ was out of the Tagalong cookies??? Very disappointing!

Once the moving van was unloaded, Matt and I set out on a mini vacation to New Orleans. And can you believe the first thing we did there? We went to the zoo! We both have fond memories of this zoo from our childhood, so we thought it would be fun to visit without the constraints of nap time, snack time or just plain unhappy kids cutting our time short. We had a blast!! Here's a statue of John James Audobon.

And here are some Red River Hogs. One of my favorites...

And a white alligator...Only in the bayous of Louisiana are you going to find one of these!

And how precious is this little fox? I wanted to take him home with me!

With the kids back home, we had to settle for taking pictures of ourselves.

The next morning, we enjoyed brunch at the Court of Two Sisters. We dined for almost two hours on a delicious variety of foods.

Then we walked around Jackson Square and the French Market and made our way back to Mobile.

The next day, we headed to Casa del Rio to visit with Nana and Papa. Papa took us on a sunset cruise last night.

Aunt Sissy was also visiting on the river, so we were finally able to get a picture of the "twins"--Sissy and Papa and Walker and Kathryn.