Mobile, AL--The Rest of the Week

We had a pretty full week. Phillip went back to Cincy to work and the rest of us stayed the week. I got in a little shopping time at Hudson's Treasure Hunt. We don't have one of those here in Cincinnati, and I really, really miss it! I found some great skirts and a dress. It's one of those places that you really have to have some time to dig around in all the crap to find the good stuff. Literally, a treasure hunt.

Archie and I met our friend, Dr. Joe at the Museum of Art and we had a great visit with him. I am always amazed at Archie's take on art pieces or other items that can be construed as more than one thing. We picked the museum to go to because my Mom's MiddleBay Lighthouse quilt is on display there. They also had a cool wood turning display as well as a glass blowing display. It was a lot of fun to see what caught Archie's eye and it was nice to get to know Dr. Joe a little better by being able to share the pieces we liked and didn't like.


Morgan has expressed an interest in tattooing (doing them, not having them, yet). So I got in touch with one of our homeschooling friends whose husband is a tattoo artist in Mobile. We were able to arrange a tour of his shop. I don't think my Dad-in-law was too pleased with me taking her, but I wanted her to get accurate information, instead of just idealizing something that she didn't know anything about. I told Pat that we would get very large matching battleship tattoos across our chests. ;-)

Toby did such a good job with our 'field trip'! He spent two hours with us during the week and showed us all his instruments, dyes, drawings, flash, etc. He works at the Queen of Hearts, which is through the White Rabbit in the back. Across from the dog track. (Laura, I'd put a website in here, but I don't have it!!) Toby was very forthright and Morgan found him easy to talk to. She thoroughly enjoyed having that time to ask questions and get information. Much thanks, Laura and Toby! Morgan really appreciated the one on one.


We also had a nice visit with our homeschool group friends in Mobile. We hadn't seen our friends since February, I think. I picked Blu Rabbit to meet, because it's too darn hot to do anything good outside! Normally, I'm not a big fan of Blu's, but our options were pretty limited. Archie was looking forward to pizza, but they burned our pizza after an hour of waiting for it. Archie wasn't happy about no pizza, but he was soon appeased by an extra dollar of tokens (we usually don't do the tokens at all) since I wasn't buying lunch there. Typical Blu's. However, I had a great time catching up. It was so fun chit-chatting with my friends. It almost seemed like I hadn't moved. I missed everyone so much and it was nice to have some adult conversation. We stayed most of the day! Here's a picture of Archie with his friend Summer:

And here's one with Kol and Juliana:



Phillip came back on Saturday to pick us up and we left early Sunday morning to head back to Cincinnati. It was a nice visit, but I was glad to get back!