Road Trip Day 11

So, Friday 13th. We left AL at 9:30 am. It took us until 5:30 to get to our hotel and it felt like we stopped 500 times! We kept looking for postcards at gas stations and none of them had any. We really liked the Birmingham area, it was big and had tons of trees and so much green even though it was a big city.

 B saw this truck and asked mom to take a pic of it. He remembered the table that she put a HUGE piggly wiggly pic on. Of course mom and the boys kept busy trying to get trucks to beep.

 We are currently in Heartbreak hotel. When we checked in it took mom 1/2 an hour and she said 2 people butt in front of her. We got up to our room and it hadn't been cleaned!! (and it smelled!) so we had to haul all of our luggage and the kids back down to the lobby and wait another 20 minutes to get another room. The beds were made, but the bathroom had blood on the toilet seat, long black hairs on the bathroom floor and toe nail clippings on the floor. It was really gross, but we stayed in the room. The internet connection is shotty so I can't add pics tonight and my broadband internet usb thing is getting extremely hot after being plugged in for 5-10 minutes so I called and they are sending me a new one since it is only 1 month old. So I guess I will have to come back on tomorrow if I get better internet connection and update the pictures. The area we are in now is not a good one. There are so many run down buildings and a lot of other buildings are fenced in and have bars on the glass. I will be happy when we get out of this area but mom said our next stop might be like this too. Guess I am too sheltered where we live, but thats not such a bad thing!