climb every mountain

ford every sea....follow every rainbow...

don't you want to watch the sound of music now? 

i thought so.

on mlk day, tim and i decided to take a day trip to mt. cheaha which is located at cheaha state park. tim suggested the trip; he grew up about 30 minutes away from the park and thought it would be a fun place to take me to get out of birmingham for the day. i must say, he's pretty good about coming up with fun activities for the two of us.

as we were driving to the park, tim and i were getting hungry so we stopped in oxford to grab lunch. as we were narrowing down the options of where to eat, he mentioned going to china luck, a restaurant he and his family had eaten at often when he was growing up. i wanted chick-fil-a.

clearly, my negotiating skills weren't what they should have been because we ended up at china luck.

in his defense, it was pretty tasty at the time...however...more to come on that.

next, we headed toward cheaha state park. 

the park was beautiful! 

here's your history lesson for the day: cheaha state park has the highest point in alabama, mt. cheaha, which is 2,407 feet above sea level and is part of the foothills of the appalachian mountains. local creek indians called this place "chaha," which means "high place". 

you're welcome.

at the top of the mountain they have a restaurant, so tim and i got drinks at the top and gazed out at the beautiful view. this was, by far, was my favorite part of our day.

they have cabins there where people can rent if they want to spend more time at the park. in fact, they have a deluxe cabin or "honeymoon cabin" there and we laughed at how unfortunate it would be to stay there...definitely not the four seasons. 

we spent the rest of our time hiking to an area called "bald rock". now when i say hiking, i mean our 5 minute walk to overlook a cliff. regardless, it was still fun to get out of the car and check out the scenery.

as we began our trek down the mountain in the car, i realized that i was in trouble. 

for those of you that know me and the women in my family, you probably know, we are notorious for getting extremely motion sick. last year, i attempted to ride the tilt a whirl....3 hours later i still felt sick.  so you can only imagine adding mongolian beef from china luck for lunch into that equation...poor tim had to hear me complain the whole way down the mountain.

a coke and a few hours later i felt so much better...

i could have done without getting sick, but overall it was a fun day getting to go up to the highest point in alabama...

next up: mt. everest...:)

love,
alison