Bama Trip: November 2008

Last Saturday, Chris and I took our first trip to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham is a two hour drive from Columbus....but well worth the drive. I think that if Birmingham hand a mute button and a fast forward button it might seem a little like Portland. The mute button to mute the southern voices, a fast forward button to speed up the customer service...OK maybe it needs a, "be nice," button as well. Below is a picture of one of the malls in town. This is a two story beast and you can see they are all ready for Christmas!


After our shopping fun, we went to the Birmingham Science Museum to see Blue Planet in IMAX. We had some time to kill before the next show so we played in the museum for a while. My favorite was the wind tunnel that simulated hurricane force winds.

This is Chris's friend the Morey Eel. You cant tell from the picture...but the eel's head was bigger than Chris's head. This guy has been a resident of the Birmingham Science Museum for many many years. He eats once every other day. They watch him if he doesn't eat often enough. Sometimes some of the other fish in the tank go missing if he doesn't eat his museum MRE's. :-)