With little Harry off to Camp Royall this week, I decided to take my darling Abbey to Charlotte for some mommy/daughter time. She was so excited, you'd have thought we were going to Disney World. The plan was a nice hotel (that I got a great deal on thanks to Priceline), a visit to the Discovery Place Museum, the Charlotte Nature Museum, IKEA for some new room furnishings and a trip to SouthPark Mall with a maybe trip to Concord Mills.
Boy did we do it all! Discovery Place was disappointing. I had heard so many great things about it, but it's under renovation, so my hope is that the exhibits were so limited due to that. The Nature Museum was more her speed, but designed for younger minded children. The best part of Discovery Place was that she bested these adolescent boys at one of the exhibits. The theme was Shipwrecks and there was a gizmo which had you operate two joysticks for a robotic arm that picked up treasure from the floor. Once you got the coins, you had to put them in a bucket. This thing was not easy to do, and she watched these boys for at least 10 minutes until they gave up. Less than 10 minutes later she had done it! People standing around cheered for her. I'm so proud of my gadget minded girl!
The best part of it all was just getting to hang out with her. With all of the demands on our family, one-on-one time gets lost. It was so nice to just get to hang out with her. I let her stay up late, eat ice cream and do almost anything she wanted. It was so great! But now we are back, little Harry comes home tomorrow and things will settle back into our groove. The nice thing is knowing that we made some great memories together.
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