What a week it has been! We left Monday morning for Birmingham for our house hunting adventure. An adventure it was :) We met our realtor that morning and probably saw 8 or so homes and drove by even more. It was a long day! We saw some good ones, but really liked a new construction home the most.
We picked up PF Changs and took it over to Heinz and Leah's house. We got to see their new baby, Owen, who is 1 week younger than Colin. Wish Colin could have met his future buddy! He was such a cutie and Alex was a little ham! After dinner we headed to Seth and Jessica's to hang out. We took them out to the house we liked too!
Tuesday we got up (after a full night's sleep-wahoo!) and went back to meet our realtor, Shelley, at her office. We started driving to the first house and it started to snow a little. We went to a house pretty far back into a popular neighborhood in Oak Mountain. Derek and I both loved it and decided it was our new favorite! As we were walking around the house the snow started to get heavier. Once we got outside everything was pretty covered!
Pretty, right? That's what we thought too. We made it half way through the neighborhood and had to overcome some pretty big hills. By this time, the roads were pretty icy and cars were starting to slide. After about 2 hours in the car attempting the hills to get out of the neighborhood, we got to the last big one and got stuck on the top. Everyone had abandoned their cars at the bottom and were walking up the hill towards us to get home. We parked the car and a nice man walked by and we casually mentioned we were now homeless ;)
We got his address and a little while later decided to call it a day and head to his place. We spent the day watching the news cover horrible wrecks and traffic issues. Our host was so nice; he had older kids that had moved out so we got to sleep upstairs in their rooms. Of course, we had been riding with Shelley so we had no bags, clothes, nothing. We at least had a hot shower and he had a lot of left over Carraba's for us to eat! Our host's wife was stuck at work too. His high school kid had a lot of friends over in the basement. We made them a big breakfast and played with their fun dog, Tank.
The next day our realtor's friend came to rescue us in his 4x4 truck. It took us a while, but we made it to the top of Hwy 31. He gave Derek and I jackets/gloves and we started our hike down to our car.
Hwy 31 was blocked on one side for a while, so we walked right down the slippery road :) We took a break at the mall. All the stores/restaurants were closed except Great American Cookie Company. They gave away free cookie cakes :) We grabbed a slice and hit the road. On the way down Lakeshore we hitch-hiked with a nice couple to Mountain Brook Village. We were sooo excited to see our car! After scraping the ice off, we hit the road! The interstates weren't bad to Huntsville and we were so glad to be reunited with little dude!
So grateful we made it back safe and that Colin was warm and happy in Huntsville. There were so many wrecks and people stranded in their cars. So crazy! Chattanooga and Atlanta got hit soon after really bad too. Colin has some awesome grandparents that kept him. He didn't give them too hard of a time but I'm sure they were glad we came to retrieve him ;)
