Day 3: Raleigh + Friends

It worked out so well to be staying near Raleigh, North Carolina, because our dear friends live there. While Ben was working on Wednesday I took the kids to Raleigh to spend the day with the Dyckmans. (Ethan and Amelia have been friends since nearly birth.) I'm so glad we got one last chance to see them before they move again, this time to Texas!

They took us to some very fun places. North Carolina is such a beautiful state. I thought Virginia had a lot of trees...

We went to Oak View Farms which was beautiful. The kids had so much fun running around and exploring. And we were the only people there! (This will seem especially luxurious after our experiences in Atlanta.)












The kids loved running up and down this cotton field.







We passed by a lot of tornado damage while driving through North Carolina. We drove along a street in Raleigh where we saw tons of trees that had fallen and some crushed cars and houses. Really crazy and sad. This was a cemetery we passed that had a lot of fallen trees in it:


We spent the afternoon at a fantastic Children's Museum.








(Amelia loved the dollhouses.)


(Elsa LOVED the train tables.)





We will miss our friends. BUT we're growing quite a collection of friends and family in Texas so there may have to be a trip there in the future (aside from the nearly weekly trips Ben has been taking there for work).

* While passing by some fast food restaurants on our trip, Amelia came up with a joke (possibly the first that was legitimately funny/made sense) that she loved to tell for the rest of the trip:
Where did the pirate eat for lunch?
ARRRRbys!