Team Lyle: The days after Christmas

On the 26th, we packed and left and traveled to Charlotte, NC to visit Seth's family. We had a fairly non-eventful trip there. Seth's older brother and wife had planned out our next day there. We all got to ride the Light Rail into downtown...which was really fun for the kids. We first went to ImagiOn (a children's library) and got to dress up in characters, check out some books, and attended a story hour. Ella especially loved it when Miss Leah read "There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly"...she use to read that in one of her KinderMusik classes as a toddler and we have the actual doll she used to play with as a toddler as well. I was impressed that she remembered it. Our day continued at Fuel Pizza, where Luke had 3 pieces of pizza. We then went to one of Bank of America's buildings (I forget the name) and observed some silly bears singing some classic Christmas songs. There was one bear named "Ella"...needless to say Ella enjoyed that as well. Luke and their cousin Arden enjoyed it as well.

We parted with Dave, Lisa, and Arden...so Arden could take a nap. The rest of the gang went on to Discovery Place. We just happened to get in free, which made it that much more enjoyable. The kids loved playing with various things. Ella enjoyed seeing the stuffed animals and some marine life. Luke enjoyed the table of "sticks" to build towers with. Once back at Dave and Lisa's we ate dinner and enjoyed watching High School Musical...at least Lisa and I did. Here are some pictures of our very busy day....

Arden and Luke watching "Little People"