Birmingham, AL - expense report and final thoughts

We went over our $85 budget on this trip.  I don't fault us for going over as much as I fault myself for having too low of a budget.  I keep underestimating the food budget and,m in this trip, I greatly underestimated the gas budget because I thought our destination was 11 miles from the airport.  I ended up getting lost and adding about $100 miles to our trip.  I had not expected to spend that $10 on gas.

Amount	Category	Note
$       21.80	Transport	Car rental
$       10.50	Transport	gas
$       38.00	Entertainment	McWayne center plus parking
$         7.89	Food	sodas with lunch
$       25.34	Food	pizza hut dinner
$         8.00	Transport	parking
$     111.53	Total
$85	original budget
$        111.53	actual expenses
$         30.53	overage

We did not see enough of Birmingham to really get a good feel for the city.  My Internet research failed to come up with as many activities as other cities we have been to.  I have to thank my RQ friends CSB, Springmama, Elomamma, Eilieen, Junebugmama and Kelm for the helpful suggestions.

Would we go back?  Maybe after we have finished our fifty states... or maybe sooner that we think.  While I didn't find that much to do, I did discover that there is a Greek festival September 27.  Who knows, maybe if we have nothing else to do that weekend we will check it out (we are Greek BTW)