an adventure story...

whew!! we are finally settling back into a regular routine after taking a journey last week. we went up to north carolina to see pappy's family. then we also went to virginia to see grammy's family. today i will be posting pictures are of my family in north carolina. mommy & daddy told me we were going on "an adventure" just like dora goes on adventures. and WoW -- they were so right!

we stayed with aunt mary ann & uncle rodney in kannapolis, nc. my great-grandma brandt from winston-salem came to join us too. uncle rodney loves trains *almost* as much as i do! (ha ha!!) he has an amazing train room with SOoOoO many trains & buildings & little people. this train room was beyond my wildest dreams.

in this next picture, you can see my cousin janet playing with great-grandma & "georgie." i thought georgie was really fun & i even played with him too!

aunt mary ann even gave me this train set with neat tracks!! i got to bring it back to birmingham with me -- this was really great because i suffered some separation anxiety when i realized we were not returning to the train room any time soon.

i enjoyed watching the steam rise up from the engines & i also played with the buildings & other accessories. rodney even allowed me to move around items in the farmer's market area. i lined up all the cabbages & transferred fruits & veggies from one truck to another. i also loved all of mary ann's patriotic decor. so i put some semi-circle flags on a building that i named the cracker barrel. i did SO many fun things... i cannot wait to go back!!!