Our Summer Day Trips

This week we had planned some family day trips--or a family vacation where we could go somewhere fun for the day but still come home and sleep at our own house at night. We thought this was something we could reasonably do with Parker. So, on Wednesday we drove to Raleigh, NC for our first day trip. We started out at Kazoom, a children’s puppet show, which the kids loved. Then we ate PBJ sandwiches in the van (one of Connor’s favorite parts of the day...) before heading into the NC Museum of Natural History. We saw everything from real butterflies to dinosaur bones and everything in between. The kids really enjoyed it! We spent about 3 hours there and then drove home and went to Chuck E. Cheese pizza for dinner. We ate pizza and played games until we had 400 tickets and then it was time to go home and go to bed. On Thursday, we drove to Blowing Rock, NC to visit Tweetsie Railroad, NC’s first amusement park. They have an old-fashioned steam engine that rides around the mountain, several rides, shows, and stores. It was a beautiful day to spend in the mountains riding the ferris wheel, the carousel, and the tilt-a-whirl. Parker was even able to ride some of the rides too. We left the park at 4:00 and ate dinner at Golden Corral and then drove back home again. Today, we slept in and then went to breakfast at IHOP. To end our day trips, we went miniature golfing. Kelsey scored the only hole-in-one! Although it was a pretty exhausting couple of days, we all had a great time being together and we were glad that we were able to pull off some “normal” family activities and still take care of Parker. Oh, and one more thing...Drum roll, please...Today Parker CRAWLED!!! It was only a few feet, but he actually did it! We are so proud of him.