It's late...

Hi! I know I said I was going to try to get caught up this weekend, but I didn't have internet in my hotel room again! grrr!! I'm slummin it in the lobby using the free wireless :( We are leaving Birmingham tomorrow at 6am, so in six hours I will be on a bus heading to Bossier City, Louisiana! I still have to finish packing and get ready for bed, but I thought I'd do a quick re-cap of beautiful Birmingham....
Well, the audiences were fantastic here and we even had a few shouters in the house. This one older man that was sitting directly in front of me in the kickline at the end of New York at Christmas today threw his hands in the air and shouted, "AMAZING! JUST AMAZING!" It was pretty funny. Friday I landed badly in the jump split in Ragdolls and ended up possibly straining the muscle in the bottom of my foot. The arch of foot has been swollen and it hurts to walk and dance on it. The athletic trainers taped it up really well today and it seemed to cut the pain a little. It's not hurt badly enough to call out of a show, which I'm grateful for because in my five years of being a Rockette I've never missed a show...and I'd hate for something to stand in my way of my perfect attendance! The A.T.'s think it will get better with icing in between shows and rest. I hope they are right! As far as fun things to do or see in Birmingham, my list is pretty short. I was poo pooing the idea that Birmingham was a cool place so I slept in on Friday, my only good sight-seeing day. I did go to one of the "Original Pancake Houses" with the girls and I got yummy pecan pancakes with sliced bananas on top. I was told that the "Original Pancake House" is a southern thing so I'm going to count that as my touristy thing for Birmingham. We also went to dinner in this historic district called Five Points South. It had a bunch of beautiful old churches, cute restaurants and neat art deco looking buildings. All the buildings in this district are from 1880- 1930. I didn't like our hotel in Birmingham. It was noisy because the hotel is an atrium style and there was basketball teams and cheerleaders staying here this weekend for a tournament and they were annoying and loud!! It felt the whole hotel echoed. Overall my Birmingham experience has been luke warm...I definitely wouldn't return, but I didn't hate it either. Anyway, I'll have pics later, but now I probably should go to bed!