2014 Road Trip Part 4 - Driving home

We were sad to leave Bubbe, but we still had a couple more days of driving before we got home. On Monday morning, we got up with Bubbe, had some good, long hugs, and waved goodbye.

Our first stop on our drive was the Birmingham Children's Museum. Our Aunt Susan (Bubbe's sister and Hallie's grandmother) met us at the museum to show us around. There was a lot of cool things to see at the museum. Since we were there so early, we got a lot of individualized attention from the staff, including some neat magic tricks. Mom even took a video of Dad levitating.

My favorite part of the museum was (of course) the dinosaur exhibit. Mom and Hazel loved going down the big slide, and Hazel found an animation section where she could draw. Turner was still pretty tired, so he wasn't his normal cheery self.

After the museum, we drove all the way through Mississippi to Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Our hotel had a pool and we all really wanted to go swimming. Dad asked the woman at the front desk if the pool was indoors - it wasn't. He asked if it was heated - it wasn't. He asked if it was too cold to swim in. The woman replied "Sir, you are in southern Louisiana. That water will not be cold" Sure enough, it was unbelievably warm and nice. We all went night swimming before having a healthy dinner and drifting off to sleep dreaming on being home the next day.

The next morning Mom and Dad had planned to go on a swamp tour near our hotel. However, the weather was looking threatening, and the tour was later in the day than they wanted so we decided to just drive home. When we got to the Texas state line (hooray Texas!), we stopped at the Texas welcome center.


That turned out to be what Mom called "the best welcome center ever". In the back, it had a huge bridge that went way out into a swamp. We saw turtles, a Great Egret, and even an alligator! Mom was so happy to see an alligator after all. I was happy to get a Texas map.

Our next stop was a few hours later in Brenham, Texas at the Bluebell Ice Cream Factory. Ice Cream for everyone!

We finally arrived home at around 4pm in the afternoon, happy to be home. The adventures aren't over yet though - the next day was my birthday!

You can see all of the pictures from our road trip here.