North Carolina - Day 3

I left with one day to go on our trip to North Carolina.  Saturday.  Who doesn't love Saturdays?  We got up and went to the airport.  No, we weren't leaving, but we went to see plans take-off.  They have this really cool area called Observation Park.  It has a deck to watch the planes and you can hear the tower talking to the pilots.  They also have a little playground area and little runways for kids to run on.  It is a cool place and Lane and Jack loved it.

Jack and Lane ready to take-off

Kate's turn down the runway

Next, we went to a huge park and had a picnic with the lunches we packed.  They also had some old houses at the park and we just let the kids run around.  I got some great pictures of Lane.  Jack had a bag of Vanilla Wafers with him with a stuffed mouth so, I didn't get too many of him.  It was nice and relaxing and perfect before naptime.

Sharing snacks

We headed back to the house and the kids napped.  When they woke up, they did a little more swimming, we ate dinner and then headed out to this awesome ice cream shop downtown that had ice cream and gelato. It was like a coffee shop and had horse saddles at a bar to sit at.  There were books and chess too.

A little coffee/ice cream shop reading

Thomas (and Jack) coming down the tracks

It was a busy, but wonderful day.  We got up the next morning and left about 9.  We got home a little before bedtime.  We and the kids were tired from traveling, but we seemed to have recovered.  We hope to get back up there again and visit our wonderful hosts, Mike, Leeann and Lane!

And, check out my photography blog.  I have some great shots there of our weekend.