Winter Vacation 2023

 I'll start the post with a photo that summarizes the vacation:

The prolonged dreary weather in our neck of the woods drove us to book a VRBO home in Florida and take a road trip South.  While we were en route, we received a call canceling our rental.  VRBO was less than helpful in locating a new one and wanted us to stay in a hotel instead.  Not possible.  We found ourselves a new rental home, but of course it was not as functional for our family as the one we had picked originally, so the kids were upset and struggled when we were indoors.

As always, we tried to make the best of it and we all did very much enjoy our outdoor adventures.

And we kept up with our home schooling by studying Black History.  In Birmingham we visited the Civil Rights Institute and saw Ebenezer Baptist Church.

In Montgomery, AL, where history is really walkable we followed in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks Museum

And we had lunch at Chris' Hot Dogs which is a landmark in and of itself.

It definitely wasn't the greatest vacation we've ever taken.  A lot of it was really hard.  We made it through and life goes on.  But now we need a vacation from that vacation...