Southern Tour

After Tyler went to the Masters last week, he drove to Birmingham, Alabama for work last Monday. His new company, WattStopper, has an office there. They were training some of their clients on new products. Tuesday night I flew out to Birmingham and met him there. Then Wednesday we started our drive to Mississippi, where he had some more work to do. We stopped in Tuscaloosa, Alabama - home of the University of Alabama.

Of course, the first thing we HAD to see was the Football Stadium.

The only real connection I had to Univ of Alabama was that UTAH beat them in the Sugar Bowl!! So I flashed my U of U sign! (and might have been singing the Utah Fight Song)

Then we kept driving west and entered Mississippi, singing Johnny Cash songs along the way!

We were there on April 15th, so we witnessed the good people of Jackson in a huge TEA party.

The next day Tyler went to a big conference in Jackson (when I saw the movie by myself - see post below) And then that night we drove to Vicksburg with Tyler's sales rep, Bobby. He showed us around the Civil War town and took us to a nice Southern Meal where I tried Grits for the first time, not bad! This picture is of us at the Mississippi River, with a cannon from the Civil War. On the other side of the river is Louisiana!

The next afternoon (Friday) Tyler was done with work for the week, so we headed down to Florida. We drove through Mobile, Alabama and saw the lovely Gulf of Mexico! Then we finally re-entered Florida.

We started out in Pensacola, and drove along this little strip of land (at points less than 100 yards wide) with the beach on both sides!

All the houses on this little strip of beach were on stilts. The hurricane threat is pretty huge here, but we thought this house looked the funniest. It looks like its a space ship that will just take off into space if a hurricane hits!

Friday night we stayed in Destin, Florida. I had never even heard of this beach, but its a huge tourist destination on Florida's Pan Handle.

Saturday Morning we went to the beach at Destin. It was pretty warm but SUPER windy, so we didn't end up staying too long.

Then after our long trip, we drove through Tallahassee (ate lunch at a Florida State University hang out) drove through Gainesville (home of University of Florida Gators!) then finally made it back to Orlando.

Tyler hit up 5 states and stayed in 4 different cities in one week. It was busy! But we had fun checking out the South, our new neck of the woods!