Albertville, AL
Friday was our next travel day, leaving New Orleans and heading for my brother's place in Albertville, Alabama. We got started roughly on schedule, a little after 9:00 AM. It was easy to get back on I-10, which we followed east to I-59 near the Mississippi border. We headed northeast, picking up I-20 in Meridian, and stopping for lunch at the Alabama line and fuel just short of Birmingham. Even though we picked up a little afternoon rush traffic around Birmingham, we were still able to get to Albertville around 6:00 PM. A couple of pizzas and bottle of wine later, we were all caught up with the latest news (unfortunately, mostly focused on nephew Erik's new tattoo - ouch).
Yesterday, we relaxed for the most part. I finished a book (latest Dan Brown novel) and Geri started another (last of the "Twilight" series). Rick grilled some steaks. It's all good.
Today, we cleaned up and headed for Erik's music recital in the afternoon. He's taken voice and piano lessons from a local instructor for quite a while, and the recital was quite interesting with about 30 students at varying levels of study. Several were quite good; it was like American Idol without Simon. Here are pictures of the group (Erik is center, rear) and Erik performing.
We had pulled pork for dinner, sampling various sauces in the process. All in all, a good couple of days!
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