Weekend Run & Ramblings

Another great weekend with Gerri. We headed to Alabama on Friday afternoon, somehow even managing to miss the Atlanta rush hour traffic. We arrived in Birmingham around 6:00pm and headed to Johnny Carrino's for dinner. As usual it was delicious and the extra large piece of tiarimisu topped it off perfectly.

We relaxed at the hotel, watching some football and flipping the channels. We found a run on mapmyrun.com, in an area we had not visited known as Mountain Brook. Turns out it was only a few miles from our hotel.

We set the alarm for 6:00am, got up and headed to Mountain Brook. After missing the exit the 1st time, we found our location. LOTS of runner and bikers. We drove up to the 3 mile mark and dropped some water. We recently immediately that the morning air was humid. The run was a combination of trails, roads and sidewalks and turned out to be very pleasant. Running somewhere new is always fun, and the hills were not killer, although this area is known for their hills. Gerri led most of the way, and pushed the pace as the run wore on. We ended up with a very nice 6.7 mile run.

Following the run we had our usual pre-game breakfast at Panera's, went back to the hotel, showered and headed to T-town. Like usual, we got their well ahead of time, and the rest of our tailgating crew had not yet arrived. We walked to the Quad, over to the building that Gerri will be taking the LSAT's in October, to the bookstore and of course the strip. One of my old co-workers dropped by for a while and then our group started arriving. We enjoyed a nice leisurely tailgate for several hours before it was time to head in to the stadium.

The first game of the year at home is always special, and Saturday was no exception. While Bama did not play to our expectations following the dominating victory over Clemson the previous week, we did manage to hold down Tulane and come away with victory number two on the season. We made it back to Birmingham without incident, grabbing a very late night dinner to go at McDonald's.

We slept in Sunday, had breakfast (slow, slow and cold) at Cracker Barrel and then drove home. We arrived in Anderson in time for the 4:15pm NewSpring Church Service. After church we went to Carrabba's for dinner and then home to relax, well with the few hours left in the weekend. Next weekend we'll repeat except that we will have Chelsea and Heather with us. Hopefully Hurricane Ike will stay away!