Summer Vacation, Part 1, Day 5

We woke up at 8 or 9 and went downstairs to have breakfast with Katy. It was a good hotel breakfast with muffins and coffee and eggs and coffee and oatmeal and coffee and cereal and I think you get the picture. Oh, hold on, did I say coffee yet? :) We went back to the room and got Ivy to go to sleep in G and G's room. (We had a suite) The mirror in the bathroom had a TV in the middle of it. Grandpa babysat while Katy, Grandma, and I went back to the little store across the street. After finishing there, we walked down to Dean and Deluca and spent a little time there. I found Cheerwine in a glass bottle!!!!!!! Woooo!!! I drank the whole thing in less than ten minutes. We probably left Charlotte at about 10. Around three, we got back to G and G's. After unloading the car, I laid myself down on the couch downstairs and watched TV for about an hour. We left at either 5 or 6, I don't remember which, and went up to Hayesville to hear Grandpa sing with the barbershop singing group that he's in. After they finished singing, we went to Subway! (Yay for Subway!!!!!!!) By the time we finished at Subway, it was late, so we headed back home for a good night's rest.

<3
~Caroline

Summer Vacation, Part 1, Day 4

Thursday morning, we woke up to donuts delivered by Aunt Stacie. Krispy Kreme, might I add. About nine o'clock, we said our goodbyes. Then Grandma, Grandpa, and I headed to Charlotte. We got there in between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, I think. Grandma and I went across the street from the super fancy hotel and looked around for a while in a cute little shop with all kinds of stuff. After that, we walked back to the hotel to leave for Katy and Fred's house. We got there at about six and hung out with Katy and Ivy for a little bit. Katy had just gone through her jewelry and I ended up with 15 pairs of earrings from her. Just what I needed!! :) We ate dinner (pizza) after it arrived with Fred at 6:30. We stayed at their house for a while, and then drove back to the hotel. Oh, wait, first we went to Barnes and Noble. G and G got a few books, and they bought me the third Percy Jackson book. After Barnes and Noble, we stopped at Dean and Deluca, a big gourmet grocery store with an amazing bakery. I'm talking, like, anchovy garlic cream kind of gourmet. (I think that's what it was, I know it had anchovies and something else.) Well, needless to say, we decided on stuff from the bakery over the anchovy garlic cream. We took our goods back to the hotel, ate them, and went to bed. (They were quite delicious)

~Caroline

Summer Vacation, Part 1, Day 3

On Wednesday morning, we woke up and ate breakfast from a basket that my Uncle Nathan put together at work. It had fruit, crackers, granola bars, and cookies. Late and I put on our bathing suits and headed to the pool. We swam for a while, and then went out and walked on the beach for a few minutes. We came back and put on clothes over our suits and headed to lunch with my Aunt Stacie. We went to a restaurant and got hot dogs. Aunt Stacie took Leighton and me to the huge beach store called Wings. Then we went to a cute little boutique and looked around. After that, we went back to where Grandma and Grandpa were siting and we got frozen custard. Good stuff!! We went back to the hotel and swam a little more. Later in the afternoon, Uncle Nathan came and picked us up. He took us to get dinner at a little convenience store. We took our dinner and ate it at a little park. Then we drove to the docks and borrowed one of his friends' boats. He took us out on the inland waterway. We stayed out for about and hour. That was lots of fun. Late and I got to sit up on the bow. That night, Uncle Nathan walked with Late and me on the beach. We walked really far. Then we came back and went to bed. A good day of relaxing at the beach. I wish I could do it more often!

~Caroline

Summer Vacation, Part 1, Day 1

This past week, I went to hang out with my grandparents for the week. I got there on Sunday night. Monday morning, we (my grandparents and my cousin, Leighton) went to the fair. We only left about three hours after we had scheduled. We got there and went to a show at the music hall on the fairgrounds. The pros of the show were as follows:

1) The music hall had air conditioning.
2) It had seats.
3) I got an incredibly salty soft pretzel. yum!!
4) I got Coke.
5) I have now heard the infamous Ray Price sing. Evidently he was quite famous about 50 years ago.

Here goeth the con:
1) This was not even close the music I enjoy. Keep in mind that this is an 80-somethin-year-old dude singing jazz-country-love songs.

Apart from that small problem, it was a great show! :) After the show, we walked through a few of the exhibits on our way to the midway. We got to the midway and bought two wristbands for my cousin and me. We went on the ride closest to the front. It was quite lame after the first go-round. Next, I was convinced (with much prodding), to go on the 'paratrooper.' it had seats hanging from big thick plastic umbrellas. All of them were in a circle that tilted quite a bit. i got on one with my cousin, then got close to making whipped cream out of whatever was in my stomach. Thankfully, whatever was there did stay in my stomach. After that, I went on one more ride and that was it. While my grandma and cousin were riding other rides, I got an awesome airbrushed t-shirt. It has a big purple heart on the back that's shaded in yellow, and then my name written in it. After the fair, we went to Ingles to get dinner for me and Late. We picked out a BBQ chicken pizza. We each ate half of the pizza when we got home, and it was AMAZING!!!!!!!!! That was a fun day. :)

Adios, dear friends!
~Caroline

P.S. Here's a list of all the food a remember eating at the fair:

1) Killer beef jerky
2) Half of a fried apple pie
3) Part of a soft pretzel
4) Some coke
5) A baked potato complete with sour cream, butter, chili, and cheese.
6) Frozen lemonade
7) Another fried apple pie

I think that's it. :)