Fun in Charlotte

Last weekend, Bob had to go to Charlotte for a middle school theatre thing, so the rest of us joined in the fun and we made an over night trip of it!! Our dear friend, Jesseca, made the trip with me too, to help out with the kids!!

Our day started at 5am getting up and packing the car up. At 6am, we loaded up the ki, still in their jams, hoping that they would stay asleep for the 2 hour car ride down. THAT did not happen!! Oh well, it was interesting in itself. Bob had to be at his location at 8am and was there until 10pm, so the rest of us found fun stuff to do!

After dropping him off, we had some time and went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel, always yummy food!


After we were finished, we took the kids to Discovery Place, which is a hands on type children's museum. There was a room with stuff to do with smaller kids and both kids loved running around in there for awhile.



We found out that Charlotte was having a St. Patty's Day parade that morning, so we took a little break from the musuem to go and watch the parade!


After the parade, we went back to enjoy the rest of the museum!


They had a special thing going on about the circus. The kids got to dress up like people in the circus and do things like circus performers!




The kids found the dinosaur's a little freaky! Some of them moved and made sounds...


They had a big area with blocks to build your own towers and everyone seemed to really get into that!



And as we were leaving, a lady came out with a tarantula for the kids to get a close up look at. I think Amaryllis really wanted to take it home!!



After the museum, we went to find the hotel we were staying at. Amaryllis took about a 20 minute nap on the way. I thought she would sleep when we got in our room, but nope, she was wide awake an so was Bobby. We hung out at the room some and rested, and then decided to go to the local mall and walk around. By the time we got back, it was bed time and the kids settled in for the night! It was a fun day!

Sunday was more of a Mommy day! We went out to breakfast and then off to Ikea!!! How much fun that was!! I got to spend a little money and was so happy! Then we went to Trader Joe's and I loved that store too and stocked up on some yummy stuff. bob got to get his "2 buck chuck", so he was very happy too! Then we headed home! It was a fun weekend and so nice to get off the mountain for a little bit!