Avery fell out of the top bunk twice on night 1. At the beginning of night 2, we asked him if we wanted a board added to the bunk to keep him in or would he rather fall out. He said he would rather fall out so we loaded the floor with pillows and he never fell out last night. Love that attitude!

We hit the road and headed to Montgomery, Alabama.

That was the half-way mark in our day’s journey and we wanted visit some of the historical parts of the city. Little did we know how much civil rights history was in that one spot. Wow. It was a great opportunity to tell our kids the dark history of evil and the bright spots of Grace that showed up in Rev Martin Luther King Jr and so many others.

Here Robin is trying to bring up the topic that ‘a lot of white people were mean to black people’

This took our breath away. Water pours down this fountain. Beautiful.

I (Robin) did not realize how dark and twisted that part of our history really was. I generally knew what happened, but to see the actual spots where it all went down brought it to life.

Here is the church where MLK pastored:

We toured the home where MLK lived while he was pastor. We got there about 4:05pm. I want to give you the dialog of me and the lady at the desk.

Robin: “Hi, is this the entrance to the house museum?”
Lady: “Yeah, but it’s after 4pm, so what’s going on here?”
Robin: “Uhhh…”
Lady: “Do you have reservations?”
Robin: “No, I’m sorry, I didn’t know you had to have reservations.”
Lady: “You don’t, but we close at 4pm.”
Robin: “Ok, I’m sorry, we didn’t know.”
Lady: “Where are you from?”
Robin: “Austin, TX”
Lady: “Ok, we can give you a 5min tour, I don’t want you leavin’ and thinkin’ you were going to get a tour.”

We were very grateful! We had a very quite, private tour with a nice gentlemen. It was quite and peaceful. Intimate. It had a classic (good) old house smell to it. Most of the furniture was authentic King owned. They even had Life magazines and sheet music from the family.

This table is where he met with other leaders and made plans for marches and other parts of the movement.

Here is his kitchen where he had a revelation from God and had the peace to move forward knowing that death was eminent. He received around 40 death threat phone calls a day!

Then, we headed for the Atlanta area were we will spend the next 2 days.

The boys were PUMPED up about the season premeire of NINJAGO tonight. They were able to watch in the RV as we drove down the road. It has DirecTV. So sweet.