June 19-22 Carowinds Trip

We're home, and we had so much fun! We checked into our hotel around dinner time on Thursday and found out that we had been upgraded to a suite. That made things so much easier traveling with the kids! So, we were off to a great start.

Friday we got to the park right about when it opened and met Eric, Anna, and Emily there. Carson went off and rode a couple of the roller coasters with the guys, and Anna and I hung out in the children's area with the girls. Jamie was much braver this year with the rides. She especially liked the swings and the carousel. We rode that carousel at least 5 times that day. Jamie had so much fun with Emily, and Carson was very proud of himself for riding the big rides.

Eric and his family had to leave in the late afternoon, so we said our goodbyes and then headed over to the water park for more fun. Carson and Jamie loved the new wave pool! We hung out there for a while and then Carson and Vic went on some of the big slides while Jamie and I stuck to the kiddie slide and the Crocodile Run, a Lazy-river type thing. We stayed until the water park closed, and then stopped at a Shoney's near the park for dinner. The kids had never been to a Shoney's, and Carson was very impressed. He thought it was the greatest thing since McDonalds, lol. We went straight back to the hotel and everyone was asleep early.

Saturday morning we went back for more fun. We were still pretty tired and not quite as peppy as we were on Friday. It was much more crowded, but still not too bad. We spent a couple of hours riding rides, and then spent the rest of the day at the water park. We left around 6:15, when it began to rain and we decided to call it a day.

Today we had a nice breakfast at a restaurant by the hotel where we had eaten last year, and then headed out. We made it back to Grammy & Grampy's house to pick up Caleb a little before 3:00. It was nice to have the family back together again.

Caleb had a lots of fun hanging out with Grammy & Grampy this weekend! He got to play lots of golf, which made him very happy. He also got to go on a little adventure to the ER, since poor Grammy fell and broke her arm. :( She also injured her ribs, cut her hand, and got a black eye along with other bumps and bruises in the fall. Yikes! We didn't know about her injury until we got back. She didn't want us to worry about it while we were in NC. I feel really bad that she got hurt and then had to chase after Caleb with all those injuries! Caleb also fell and split one of his fingernails. It looks really gross, but doesn't seem to bother him all that much. So, they had an adventurous weekend. Oh yeah, and on Thursday a HUGE limb fell onto their house. I mean, it was about half a tree that fell. Thankfully, no one was outside and it just clipped the edge of their roof. It was bad enough to do thousands in damage, though. They had a crazy weekend. I hope things calm down for them soon!

I have put our pictures from our trip on the web album. It was lots of fun, but I am glad to be back home, too!