Staycation

After hearing about the idea from some great friends of ours we have decided to do a Staycation this year. Stephen is off work this entire week and instead of spending part of our time traveling, we decided to stay in town and enjoy all the fun things that Charlotte has to offer.

Monday we all slept in (we were recovering from the long weekend) and then went to the mall. We had a great time shopping and Lily Kate loved the play area. We found Lily Kate a really cute "Lily Kate sized" bookbag. Dora has a backpack...Lily Kate needed one :)

Tuesday we were going to go to Carowinds...who knew they started their fall schedule already and are only open on the weekends!! Plan B: we took the LYNX light rail Uptown. We checked out the Bobcats Team store and walked all around Uptown Charlotte. We ate lunch at NIX a trendy burger place- Lily Kate loved the sweet potato and regular french fries.

We stopped by Imaginon to let Lily Kate get her wiggles out. She loved playing on all the different displays and really enjoyed the toddler area. We checked out some new library books and we have already read 2 of them 8 times each! That little girl loves to read.

Today (Wednesday) we left Lily Kate with JaJa (Stephen's mom) and went to the Whitewater Center. Did we have fun!!! We freshwater kayaked, did the zip line and did some adventure rafting. Loads of fun. Here is the link to some photos, I'm the one falling out of the raft. (I only fell out once and it was on a class 4!) www.photos.usnwc.org