Going to Carolina!

We went this past weekend to visit my brother and his wife up at their new home in Greensboro North Carolina. We had a wonderful trip!! It was so much fun to get to see them and visit with them. They were great hosts and we just got to do so much! It is about an 8 hour drive up there so we set out Thursday after work and were just going to drive until we got tired (this was going to be a hard thing for me because I like a plan). We ended up driving the whole way. Yep all 8 hours. We got there about 1 in the morning after only stopping once for 30 minutes for dinner. Ben did great. He actually stayed awake the whole time!! We did have another tire mishap. Really it would be nice to go on a trip and not have to buy new tires!!

We went to the Children's Museum in Greensboro on Friday. It was so much fun. Everything was Ben sized so he loved it! Plus he had 4 adults playing just with him. We got a tour of Greensboro which was cool to get to see what all Kelly and Andrew do! Saturday we went to the NC zoo. It was an awesome zoo. I would actually call it the best I have ever been to. It is the largest in North America. If you walk the whole thing it is about 5 miles (we rode for a little of it but pretty much walked the whole thing). The animals were so interactive. Ben put his hand on the glass for the chimps and they would come up to it and touch his hand and make faces at him. It was so cute. He loved all the animals. He would point at them and make noises. He also loved the mountain lions. He just chased them up and down their cage. They enjoyed being chased. At one point Ben yelled at them and the mountain lions jumped. Yes Ben scared the mountain lions. That's our boy!

The most fun on the trip was just hanging out with Kelly and Andrew. We played games, watched movies, and ate some good food! It was a great time!! Thanks for letting us come guys!! We love you and miss you!

On the way home we stopped and visited with our friends the Thomas' in Knoxville. Ben loved playing with Ethan and Elijah. It was fun to get to see them too!

Kelly and Ben at the Children's Museum

Flying a plane with Uncle Andrew

Grocery Shopping - they had the neatest kid sized grocery store

Family Pic

Checking out the giraffe

Playing with the chimps

Uncle Andrew & Aunt Kelly with Ben (don't ask about the Wake Forest t shirt - we don't understand!)

Scaring the mountain lions