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Tammy and Jocelyn loved Wellesley, but they
wish they could have gone to Bob Jones University, an ultra-conservative,
ultra right-wing Christian religious university in South Carolina.
Apparently the BJ University students (ok,
they probably don’t refer to it that way) were staying at our motel too.
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Tammy and
Jocelyn in front of the bus again.
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Downtown Birmingham.
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It was pretty empty on a Saturday. The city was clean
and new-ish, although on the outskirts, there were lots of abandoned
industrial buildings.
Also, we got a bit lost and were driving through some
poor neighborhoods where some houses were boarded up, burnt down houses
were not rebuilt, etc.
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Typical
neighborhood street.
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Looks like any
other town.
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Arlington
Antebellum Home and Gardens.
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Look at
this cookbook in the bookstore.
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The back
of the home.
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The top porch
used to be screened in and
was used as a sleeping porch on hot summer nights.
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Right side of the kitchen.
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Walking
through the herb garden.
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Okra plant.
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The okra is red?
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Weird
“fruit” on a tree.
Jocelyn claims
this is where red M&M’s come from.
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We had lunch at Dreamland BBQ.
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Michelle and Tammy looking at the menu. Look
at the red neon sign in the back.
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Where the ribs are cooked. Smoky,
and smelled SO good!
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The requisite paper towels and sweet tea.
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The
appetizer is “bread and sauce.”
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We couldn’t
remember the last time we had eaten white bread.
The sauce was the
tomato-based style of BBQ sauce, very tangy and a little spicy.
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Ribs! SO GOOD! The sauce was excellent.
Multi-dimensional, tomato and vinegar. Amazing.
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From left
to right: banana pudding, baked beans, potato salad, and an enormous pulled pork
sandwich (1/2 lb.).
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Inside the pork sandwich. Surprise! There are
pickles.
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Michelle
really enjoyed the ribs.
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Ignore the stains. Notice the price for
parking.
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We visit the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham. Very,
very good. When Jocelyn and I had driven from California
to North Carolina, we visited the Civil Rights
Museum in Memphis, and we loved both of these.
Highly recommended.
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Park
across from museum with several sculptures.
This one recalled
the horrific police brutality
civil rights activists
endured.
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According to a guy who was talking to us, this
is the actual location of when the police commissioner, Bull Connor, let
the dog assault a young marcher.
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The attack dogs
that were unleashed on the young people
marching.
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16th
Street Baptist Church
where four girls died
when the church was bombed.
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It is currently
being renovated.
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On the road to Montgomery. There are a lot of trees.
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We met up with Julia in Montgomery.
This is a photo of us hauling our bags into
Julia’s house; her neighbor’s friendly dog greeted us.
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A rather sad seal show; we didn’t see the
actual show but it looked like they were trained to surf.
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Photos of
people at the fair.
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People were
really average and normal, just like any other place.
We were not
stared at at all. I was surprised.
We did
occasionally see other Asian and Latino families.
The experience
felt very average and not particularly Alabamanian.
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People watching a shark show and the seal show.
For some reason the garbage cans were all decorated
like cows.
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Apparently what we know as “snow cones” or “shaved
ice” in the north are called “sno-balls” in the south.
And are made by Smurfs.
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A band playing in
the “Domestic Arts” display building.
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Blacksmithing demonstration.
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Woodworking
demonstration, very reminsicent of
wood shop in junior high.
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Young ducks with a feather puff on their
heads.
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Grooming
their cows before showing them for competition.
This
woman is vacuuming her cow.
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Showing
his goat. This guy got 2nd place.
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Tasting
and judging of hot chicken dishes.
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A 4-H club’s display warning of the dangers of
obesity.
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Randall’s
High Flying Races.
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Pig racing and
pig diving!!!
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This was where the pigs came out for their
race.
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The emcee
had a ventriloquist dummy companion.
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The
second pig race with red pigs from Mexico.
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He asked
men with pot bellies to come out to the stage.
Then he
picked a skinny man. He had a humorous skit.
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Slow, ambling pot belly pigs racing.
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This one
takes a detour and pushes down the fence.
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The first
pig dives!
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They really do dive.
Most of them would then walk along the bottom and up a little ramp to get
out of the tank, but a few would swim to the ramp.
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Tammy
finishes her corndog while talking to Julia.
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