Driving South: North Carolina

The next day we packed into our fancy rental car and continued the drive down to North Carolina. I wish I had taken a picture of this, but on our way down we stopped for lunch at a Cracker Barrel restuarant. While we were outside we saw some of the hickest looking guys all wearing guns in holsters talking about what you should say to a judge if you were ever arrested for shooting someone to make it sound like self-defense. Yeah. For real. Can you imagine sitting in a restaurant with a bunch of hicks with guns strapped to them? Definitely a southern experience.

Tyler's aunt Cindy and uncle Mark and their 6 awesome kids (Benjamin, Anna, Porter, Jane, Bekah and Eve) were so soo nice to let us stay with them for a few days! I wanted to stay longer but it didn't work out with everyone's schedules. Max had the time of his life playing with all his cousins and swimming in their pool.









I actually really really liked North Carolina. It's gorgeous and green. It was so interesting to see the miles of tobacco plants there, too. AND the food was SOOOOOOO good. I'm a sucker for fried chicken and BBQ. Cindy took us to two awesome places while we were there.


I swear if I lived there I'd be 400lbs in a matter of months. That sign is supposed to say "Chicken and BBQ" although I prefer it like this :) And can I just tell you all how hot it is in North Carolina? I don't think I've ever experienced heat like that anywhere else! Wow!

One day we were there we went to this fun Natural History museum. Max thought the dinosaurs were so cool.

Max is here with Eve and Porter.

Another day we went to this awesome kids place called Marbles. It was so fun! It had a bunch of play areas and rooms with tons of toys for pretend play. They had a fire truck with fireman clothes to wear.


They had a post office with a conveyer belt, packages, and mailman clothes to wear. And they had an ambulance with a bed, IV bags and tubes, babies in incubators, all the stuff you need to have an awesome pretend time!


They even had a little play area for babies that Lia had fun crawling around in.


And the thing that sent Max over the edge into pure blissful happiness -- a huge pirate ship and lots of pirate clothes to wear. He was "boisting" the sails and having the time of his life. I think he thought he was a real pirate for like half an hour.








We had so so much fun with everyone there! Thank you so much Cindy and Mark for letting us come visit and play and making it possible for us to even go there! North Carolina is definitely on the top of our list of places we may move to (although, it's not at the very top because I'm seriously afraid I'd really be 400lbs with all that good Southern food!) We miss you guys!