Day Trip

Today we took a surprise trip to the city and had a blast! Dave, Lucy and I went with Oma, Grandpa, and Uncle Jim out to lunch then to a spice store. (Yes, a store that just sells spices. Stuart's Spices) After the excitement of the spice store we decided to go to Charlotte and go out on the pier. It was so much fun!!! We all rode the carousel, which at first Lucy was a bit afraid of but once Daddy got on the horse too she was happy. Then we walked on the pier a little and saw some quackers (that is what Lucy calls ducks :) ). Next we walked on the beach, Lucy's first time at the beach. I took her to put her feet in the water and she was not thrilled with it. She stood for a minute letting the waves touch her toes and then she said "all done", very anti climatic for me. Afterwards we went to get ice cream and that made everyone happy, especially Uncle Jim who seemed disappointed that we didn't get ice cream first. ;)

There were only two sad parts to our day. The first was that none of us had a camera with us for our day trip. We unfortunately missed out on some great pictures. :( The second sad part was that this evening we had to say goodbye to Uncle Jim, Aunt Julie and Molly; they are leaving in the morning. I am hoping to plan a trip out their way soon.

I am going to go sit on the deck with Dave and eat cherries that he just picked from our tree. Happy Fourth!