Carowinds!!

Okay, so we knew Drew was pretty daring. I mean, he likes swimming and he has little fear at the playground...but Carowinds?? I had no idea he could handle an afternoon at an amusement park, but Chad's mom took us today and he loved it! He rode all the rides that he was allowed to, he got out of his stroller and ran around, he was patient and let us take turns on a couple of the big rides, and then he enjoyed some McDonalds on the way home! Here he is waiting patiently in line for a ride.

Then he got on the ride...and could barely see out! He looked so little on there!

Then it got moving and he had a big smile the whole time!

We rode the same ride later on, and I went this time. Here's an action shot that Chad got.

And here is a cheesy video on that same ride. You can see how Drew doesn't like it when the sun gets in his eyes.


Then he rode the carousel with Chad. He has a big smile!

We went up in the space needle so Drew could pick out the next ride he wanted to go on. Although he got bored up there and started pulling toys out of his bag.

We got to ride on a train!

Here he is on the train, looking like such a big boy!

Then he got to meet Dora and Diego and the monkey (I don't know his name). I figured he'd be afraid of them, but he started dancing around like them - and kept getting in the way of some other people trying to take their picture with them! haha I got a video, but he's still being a little shy in it.



And here's the "big boy" ride that he went on. We couldn't really see Drew - we could just see Chad making their little plane go higher than any of the others!! But he said that Drew was loving every minute of it. Here's a video - you can see Chad's red shirt.

It is SO much fun to see Drew have that much fun!! He was amazingly good - even when we missed his dinner time and then missed his bedtime. And that was after a full morning at the Y! Thank you so much, Susan, for such an awesome experience for all of us!