Chasing Your Shadow

On the way home from Fairhope last weekend the kids realized we would be traveling to Huntsville via Montgomery. To my kid's way of thinking Montgomery is just a stone's throw away from Auburn. So as soon as we got near the city they began to make their pitches.

Mom! Auburn is only thirty minutes away! 

Not exactly, minion.

Mom! It could just be a quick trip!

It's never a quick trip with you people.

Mom! We could go to Toomers!

I'm on Whole 30. Don't tempt me.

And finally, "Well, you're always saying you want me to love Auburn!"

So, even though the city of Auburn isn't exactly on the way home I found myself turning onto I-85 towards Atlanta.

Fifty one miles later we were in Auburn. Don't you just let out a breath you didn't know you were holding when you get in to town? Only a few places affect me this way and Auburn is one of them.

Toomer's was our first stop, of course. 

And thanks to Harvey Updyke there was this:

 The trees look awful. Just pitiful. It's hard to fathom the kind of hatred that leads someone to do such a thing. 

The seven year old was showing me what he'd like to do to Harvey Updyke. 

After we went to Toomer's we wandered around the rest of the campus. 

Langdon Hall in the background. I used to love going to the free movies there. It was always freezing, the projector hardly ever matched the audio and half the time it went out but it sure was fun.  

We hopped on an orange and blue golf cart at Foy to get a few shots. I totally had to fight the urge to turn that sucker on and go 

Stella was beyond exhausted. I could tell because as we ran past Haley Center she began to laugh uncontrollably at something. I finally realized she was cracking up at her shadow chasing her. 

At the point that the three year old is chasing her shadow it's time to go home. 

And with that we said goodbye to Auburn.