Birmingham was a steel and iron city many years ago, and is home to the tallest (56') cast iron statue in the world, the Vulcan. It was made in 1904 for the World Fair, with iron mined from Bgh'm.
While we drove to Savannah's eye doc for a post-surgery check up (she's doing great), we noticed that the Vulcan was only a mile or so away. So, we zipped over for a visit.
The first thing we did was take the elevator (okay, we could have walked up, but that surely would have resulted in me carrying Gage) up to his base. The only real view of the Vulcan you get up there is of his naked butt!
Gage has been nervous about heights before, but he did GREAT, especially considering that the floor is an open grate!
After taking in the view of the city from the top of Vulcan, we went cooled off in the museum for a while. Their favorite part was a replica of Vulcan's foot, which was part of an exhibit that showed how they shipped Vulcan to the World Fair in 11 pieces. I couldn't seem to get a good picture of them because Gage kept yelling "SMELL MY STINKY FEET" and holding his foot up in front of his face. Boys :-)
