A Family Trip

We had a great time on our family trip to Brevard, NC.  We stayed at my Grandfather's house in a development outside of Brevard.  The house brought back lots of childhood memories for me, as did the nearby park and pool.  It was so nice to have a chance to get away from to do lists at home and just focus on playing with the kids and relaxing during their nap and bedtimes.  The goal each morning and afternoon was to wear out the kids so they slept really good!

On Sunday we loaded up the car tightly and headed off for the drive.  It was supposed to be a 6 hour trip, but we stopped for lunch at Cracker Barrel with Uncle Mark in Christiansburg and took a couple of other bathroom/ play breaks along the way, so it ended up being about 8 hours.

On Monday I forgot to pull out the camera, but we walked down to the park in the morning and the kids had so much fun playing with different playground equipment.  The walk to the park is mostly downhill and the walk back to the house was a pretty steep climb, but Trey walked the whole thing! After their naps we went to the pool.  They have only swum in the creek this summer but they both loved the pool.

Tuesday we woke up to pouring down rain.  We drove about an hour over to Greenville, SC to go to their 3 story children's museum.  Despite the fact that we were soaked by the time we walked from the car to the museum, the kids had fun.   I think every other parent in the area decided that the museum was a good rainy day activity too because it was quite crowded. 

There are more pictures of Charlotte because I had the camera and I chased her around.  Jay stayed with Trey.  With the size of the museum and the number of kids there, we were glad we had a 1:1 kid to adult ratio.  They both loved the grocery area, but Trey was most excited about decorating the cakes with letters.  Charlotte mainly liked ramming the cart into things/kids and taking other people's carts that looked more full than hers.  We had to have a talk about grocery shopping etiquette.

They also loved the balloon area with balloon and foam paddles to hit the balls.  Charlotte couldn't figure out how to hula hoop and it was so funny to watch her try like the big kids!

There was a farm and construction area.  Trey enjoyed the tools at the construction place and Charlotte was so exciting to see the animals at the farm.  She kept hugging and kissing the pigs and cow. 

After lunch we went to the bottom floor and the kids got drenched with water play area.  They ended the day in the art room playing with sparkly play-doh and playing the drums in the music room.  It was the perfect day trip for an extremely rainy day!