Holiday Road

This weekend we took a family road trip to north Alabama to visit my grandmother in Decatur. It's a long five hours on the road, so thank goodness for satellite radio, Christmas CDs and pretty scenery. We got there Friday night and went downtown for a cold beer and a sandwich at this cool little restaurant/bar called The Brick.

On Saturday we had a little Christmas celebration with Grandma and decorated her apartment before heading to lunch at Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Q. This place has been featured on the Food Network for its white bbq sauce, and I remember coming here as a little girl. The plates are HUGE, even the bbq chicken baked potato that I got. SO GOOD!

After lunch and a little downtime in the hotel, we headed over to Huntsville and up to the top of the Monte Sano Mountains. It was gorgeous! We decided it would be a great place to come camp sometime soon. What a view!

Don't my parents make a cute little couple? :)

At sundown, the state park was closing, so it was time to drive over to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens for the Galaxy of Lights Christmas show. This is a drive-thru Christmas light display that has been featured as one of the top tourism events in Alabama and even in the Southeast. It was definitely something to see, and these pictures don't even come close to doing it justice. Oh, well... I tried.

We ended our busy day with dinner at Rosie's Cantina, and then we headed back to Decatur and back to the hotel. We were worn out.

Sadly, this is the only group photo we took all weekend, but it was SO GOOD to see Grandma. I wish we lived even closer. She enjoyed our visit, too. And while we may not be the Griswalds, I think we give them a run for their money on family road trips like this... :)