Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Saturday in Alabama

NOTE: Sorry for any crummy grammar/writing in advance.

I went to Alabama and now posting from the hotel room. It was a 3 1/2 or so road trip to go see the space center. I’m not usually interested in museums that much. Well, it actually depends but I rather be places where I get to do stuff.

We came to Alabama using some weird thing that tells us where to go when we are driving. Every time we went a different way than it wanted it said: Recalculating. It was so funny until it started getting annoying. Never depend on those things, they make you go the wrong way sometimes.

In the Space Center Museum, we watched Hail Columbia! in the IMAX dome they had. It was very weird and they also show movies there like Spiderman 3 and I think Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is next. After that, we walked through the place. I can’t put any pictures up because we don’t have the thing to hook up to the computer/laptop.

When we got done, we went to a nearby Costco. My grandpa’s frame broke in his glasses and we went there to get them fixed. It was very creepy going inside. It was set up the exact same way as the back home. Grandma said there was a place to buy food. We ended up getting hotdogs because it was $1.50 per a hotdog plus a soda. This guy in front of us kept looking back at us. It started to freak me out some. When passed his table to sit down and eat, he saids ‘Choose Your Weapon’. It was really random but my brother was wearing a shirt that said it. Its a gamer shirt with game controllers on it. My brother said he is obviously a gamer type person. Later on, the guy went to the pianos which were really close by the tables. He starts playing video game theme songs like Super Mario, Pokemon ect. on the piano. It was so cool and funny at the same time. We wished we had digital camera to record him.

Finally, we left to go check in at the hotel. My brother usually ends up on the couch bed most of the time. But… he actually got his own bed and I have to share with mom. I really hate sharing with her. She like stares at me and thats all she ever does most of the time. When we eat and she already ate, she sits down with us and stares at us eating. I dislike that very much but I guess you can’t do a ton being deaf and all.

We went down to the pool with my grandma and uncle for a bit. I have only been swimming twice this whole summer so far.

Around 6 o’clock, we went to a seafood/chicken place for dinner. We met up with our Aunt and talked a bit. Well, my grandparents and uncle were the ones talking. It is impossible to get a word in their conversations and it gets on my nerves. I think they prefer us kids to be silents unless its an update about school or something successful we did. Or maybe, I don’t have something to say most of the time so they don’t expect me to say anything at all.

Tomorrow we are going out on the lake on a platoon boat (I think). Any updates will come late tomorrow night if I have anything interesting.

<3 Laura