Huntsville, AL

Every time we come here we're impressed with this city. This area has so much to offer, especially to young families that are willing to work hard and succeed. There is industry, technology, great schools and every kind of retail available, if it weren't so ccoollldd !! Sarah says they have had more snow then usual but still....

We are staying at the Rocket and Science Center RV Park which is pretty close to Sarah's house, close to downtown Huntsville and cheap!  We went to Samantha's 'T-ball' practice and that was neat to watch the little kids chase the ball around, swing wild and pitch . Sarah fixed a big meal and we all watched Modern Family on the tube, it was too funny. Mo and I never watch sit-coms so it was that much funnier! Samantha wasn't feeling her best but she's a trooper and wasn't going to miss anything if she could help it, so Thursday morning we went to the Huntsville St Patricks Day parade. We parked and walked through a downtown park that had a lake that was filled with gold Koies, Carp and catfish. and there were literally thousands! Every one brought loaves of bread to feed them and they would come right up and almost take it out of your hand!

Here's Mo and Samantha feeding them with some bread a couple of girls gave us.

 There were lots of fish! all sizes and colors!

This was taken off of a little bridge that crossed, the fish knew right where to be to get the most people!

We went on to the parade after we got over the fish. We didn't know where to be so we walked a long way and ended up being in a great spot right at the start. It wasn't a huge parade but it had lots of firetrucks, Irish bands and local businesses.

Here we are trying to find the parade route, we found the floats and such..........

 A real Irish Bagpipe band......

 Jugglers, unicycle riders, clowns and all sorts of amusing characters......

 Samantha knew who this was, it came to her school. (The Hockey Team Mascot)

We took lots of pics for later............

After the parade, Samantha was feeling puny but we had a plan for lunch at the playground up on Monte Sano so we went on up hoping she would perk up. She wanted to so bad when she saw the playground but after a short time it was plain to see she didn't feel good so we packed it in and left.

She lasted about 3 minutes.  We were so worried, we stopped and got some Tylenol. She woke up a few minutes before we got back to the MH and she was just fine! Guess she was just tired? Kids !!
We got back and we went for a long walk and found two complete rockets that the Space Camp kids had fired off but landed intact, so she had a neat souvener and we will send one to Ollie, too. Then we watched a movie while we ate dinner. Samantha spent the night with us and was such a good girl. Today Sarah will pick up Samntha about noon and we'll leave to tour the Natchez Trace. We'll start in Cherokee, AL and spend 3 days driving to the southern end in SE MS.
More later..........