Well, technically it's the fourth. A few years ago some of my good friends from college started coming down to Philly to visit the first weekend in December. We made it an annual event, and would go out in Philly, exchange Secret Santa gifts, eat a lot and drink a lot :) When I told everyone I was moving to Alabama they said we were going to do holiday weekend in Birmingham this year....so we did! Brie, Margaret, Carrie (all bridesmaids) and Carrie's husband John were all able to come down. Carrie and John flew in Friday morning and Brie and Mags arrived Friday night. We had such a GREAT weekend! It was so nice to see everyone and Tom and I are so grateful to them for taking the time and money to come visit us! We explored some of Birmingham's finest attractions and of course, ate and drank a lot :) Pics will be up soon!
Ok, so after Brie and Margaret flew out on Sunday, we had a few hours before John and Carrie's flight left. John LOVES to explore and check out new things and loves to cram 18,000 things into their vacations :) So he picked up a "2006 Birmingham Activity Guide" and we went exploring :) Actually, we just went to this one place, which was an old mansion from the 1800's that was supposed to be all decorated for Christmas (I forget who lived there....I think the cousin to the guy that shot Abe Lincoln???). Anyways, so we went and it was kinda decorated for the times, not anything too spectacular to put us in the Christmas mood. They did have yummy hot cider and snacks at the end though :) Ok, POINT OF THE STORY, so John and Carrie say they initiated our Christmas season and we have to do something "Christmas-y" every weekeend between now and Christmas. Which is fine with me because I LOVE doing Christmas-y things. Sunday night at the mall, you could bring your dog or cat and get it's picture taken with Santa. Tom and I thought about bringing the chins for like a millisecond but then decided against it. ;) This weekend we are going to get our Christmas Tree on Saturday! I can't wait!! Decorating our tree will be our Christmas-y thing we do this weekend :) Here are a few pics from Holiday Weekend :)
Everyone at dinner in the Lakeview District
The girls at the Rare Martini
Sunset at the Vulcan
Gorillapod holding John's cam to take our "artistic pic"
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