Seeing Birmingham...

I cant remember when it was that I went to Vulcan last. What I do remember is that I am terrified of heights and there was this glass elevator that my dad practically forced me to look out as we rode up. When we got to the top I was really, really, scared! I was ready to go immediately!! So, when we got ready to go back down, I was not excited about getting back on that elevator! so, my dad told me that the only other way down was the staircase in the middle of the pedestal and that I would have to do that by myself (I think he thought that would convince me to just take the elevator!... Well... it didnt) I took the stairs by myself (maybe mom came too... I really dont remember) I remember taking at least a portion of them on my bottom!
That little story is just to prep the fact that I had never been back again until this past week with Angel and Mike. I decided one afternoon that I would just drive them around Birmingham and we would just look at the city and possibly go to Vulcan. So, Angel jumped in the front seat, Alex in one of the middle seats of the van and Mike and Jordan got in the way back. As I drove around I acted as tour guide to Angel about some of the different sites while Jordan gave his version in the way back to Mike. Jody wound up calling and he got out of class early so we decided to go to Vulcan. After dark it is very pretty! We got there and the remodeling is really beautiful (I cant believe it has been done for 4 years and I am just now getting back up there. Much less never taken Jody to such a landmark of Birmingham). Guess what?? the remodeling still has the glass elevator and the walk at the top is no longer enclosed... and not only is it not enclosed, the walkway was a grate walkway!!!! Try to guess whether I went up!! NOPE!!!
The picture above was my view of vulcan for the evening... and the below picture is Mike, Jordan and Angel sitting at the same place that I took the above picture, except out over the city! As you can see I was already high enough! Alex did go to the top with Jody and was not scared at all. (She kept calling me a "Scaredy Cat, Scaredy Cat!!")
The picture below... is the picture that Jody took from the top of Vulcan!
That evening we also went to The Alabama Theatre. I was hoping that they would have something going on so that we could just go in and look around. But we just took pictures outside and peeked in through the windows.

The next afternoon... I took Angel out again because I was trying to show her some of the "castles" around Birmingham... I could only find this one, and it was smaller than some of the ones that I have seen before. But, it was across from a very gorgeous view!

Here is the "castle"s view below...


Note in the picture of the beautiful view... the couple to the left... we think that we may have walked up and intruded upon a proposal!... OOPS!!