Over the river and through the woods....

This weekend was eventful in the lives of the Siech's. We went to two, count them, TWO new Wal-Marts, John almost blew Meg up in the dryer and Cade is getting much closer to crawling. So needless to say we were crazy busy this weekend.

We decided to go to Dothan after our ceremonaional breakfast at the local Waffle House. I wanted to take a weekend trip to Birmingham to show John what is up there. When I drove up there is past month I was surpirsed at the landscape I saw. I pictured most of Alabama to be flat, brown grasses, not many trees (if so they have moss in them like Gone with the Wind) and sparely populated. But where we visited up there was nothing like that. There were "moutains" and trees everywhere. It was so beautiful. The Childrens hospital south sat on a bluff that was nestled back in the trees and overlooked a small highway and more trees. Not to mention it has bread company, an apple store, coach store and a million other things to do there. But it is too far for John to venture right now. His new commander is trying to change that rule so maybe later. I had thought about Montgomery, but when I drive through there it reminds me of Chicago and that was the dirtest city I have ever seen. I lock my doors and just look straight ahead. It is not a pleasant town to drive through. But talking about this leads me to another thought.

When I "signed up" to be a military wife, I wanted to get one thing out of the experiance and that was to travel to other places we would not normally have had the opportunity to go to. So I want to try to visit the three biggest cities in each state, if time and location allow. Maybe even some smaller Mayberry ones too along the way. And of course we must visit the Wal-Mart's in each. Maybe I should start taking my pictures at each to create some sort of "Travel" log of where we have been.