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Had my bestest friend Mary come visit for the weekend, to see the house all set up and show her around Charlotte. We got to see the Discovery Place museum and the Pompeii exhibit we've been planning on seeing. We also ate WAY too much food, and none of it healthy. So all-in-all a very productive weekend. Eating at one of our favorite local places, Cabo Fish Taco, a cool neighborhood bar with really great food, including their fish tacos, what I usually order.
Xander, getting ready for some mango salsa rice.
Mary and I, checking out the craft fair at the park, lots of cool stuff. A lot of jewelry and cute baby toys.
At Discovery Place in uptown Charlotte is the Pompeii exhibit. Really interesting stuff including the bodies, still in their positions when the volcano settled on them. Kind of solomn and really interesting to see these people exactly how they were their last moments of life. There were couples hudling together, makes me kind of emotional to think about them at that moment.
Xander loved the childrens play area. He wasn't too happy to be pulled away from that and put back in his restricting stroller.
Momma and baby in front of a HUGE snake. He was more interested in climbing the rocks.
X's new monster shirt, a gift from Auntie Mary...She loves to spoil her babies.
There's Auntie Mary! At the farmers market, of course, our new favorite place.
Auntie again, showing X all the pumpkins.
The two of those kids are practically inseperable! Fooling around with the camera.
Yikes. Food at the Penguin is nothing but unhealthy, but oh man, so good. That's why it was on Food Network's show 'Diners, Drive-ins and Dives', and it fits right in. Fried pickles are a staple of the Liz Vaagen diet.
The lady in the back likes to watch me eat. So does Caleb, he wanted a shot of me and the big burger, at least we split it, so I didn't feel too guilty, although...I was so full.