I wasn’t sure what I was going to do when my husband told me he wanted to go to Birmingham for Christmas; I knew he grew up in AL, and I also knew he missed his friends.
I enjoyed winter season in the Northeast, and I had constantly spent my holidays with my parents, but when my husband told me he was about to be deplotted , I knew he wanted to go home and spend the holidays with his family, he told me it was cold during the winter, but it was nothing like what I was used to. We had the furnace on from October until May, then people from Birmingham had their furnace running at night, and through the day, but the residual heat would have lasted us throughout the entire fall-like day, but they thought it was cold. He told me my great friend and I could go ice skating in the park, and have supper in an Igloo. He also said about going to the Birmingham zoo, and taking a Zoolight Safari! One evening, my great friend and I were going to take a ride through Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland. He said you drove through the 12 afternoons of Christmas where the lights danced to the songs in your car. He said my great friend and I had to take a pair of 3-D glasses to watch the lights, and I would never want to see Christmas lights any other way. I asked if my great friend and I could have the windows up and the Heating & A/C heat running? He laughed and asked how the lights would dance to our songs. I figured they would dance to all the people else’s songs.