Cross Country Road Trip (Part 2) Stay with the Kingsford's

When we arrived in Rock Hill, South Carolina, we were so excited to see our friends, Tyler and Emilie Kingsford and their adorable children, Mason and Bentley. We hadn't seen them in over a year and were really excited to see how their life was out in the South.  Looking at the pictures we took, I noticed that I didn't get a single one of Tyler or Emilie or their baby girl, Bentley!  Not sure what I was doing there!  But I did get some of what we did with them! 

Our first day, we went into Charlotte.  Its a pretty cool city.  Tyler showed us the building he worked in for Ernst and Young.  It would be so interesting working in a high rise "uptown" as they call in Charlotte!

We went to the Nascar Hall of Fame.  Very interesting and very fun!

Here is the grand entry hall.  It was pretty cool!

Here's all the kids with this car, too bad I didn't pay attention to what was what.  Not sure what kind of car that is or who drove it or why it was even in the Nascar Hall of Fame. 

Here is Ava and Lily outside of the movie theater.  We watched an educational movie about the history of Nascar.  Very interesting and educational, since I knew nothing about Nascar before I went here! 

Ava showing us where we are, the Nascar Hall of Fame!

 

 

Some pretty cool cars!  Once again, don't know who drove them or anything!  It's hard to read anything when you have 3 kids with you! 

 



 

 

 

Here's Will trying to keep up with the big kids! :)

  

Hanging out on the track!

 



 

 

 

Cory and Lily manning the pit!   They were a pretty good little pit crew! 

 

 

Will and Ava being their own pit crew! 

 

I'd want a pit crew as cute as them, who cares about speed, right? 

 

Ava reporting the race on the radio.

 

 

Getting comfy in a racing seat. 

 

 

Or maybe not so comfy...hahaha! 

 

Waving the flag to start the race.

 

 

Stopping the race, is that what the red flag means??

 

There were these white rocking chairs everywhere!  Tyler said that it's not a Nascar thing, it's a North Carolina thing? 

 

 

We all did a race simulation.  Ava and I rode in that purple car behind her.  We were going like a 185 miles per hour!  Our fastest lap time was 45 seconds, which sounds fast to me, but I have no idea if it really is!  We came in 3rd in our simulation.  Cory and Lily came in first.  Is anyone surprised? 

 

 

We all enjoyed ourselves at the Nascar Hall of Fame.

 

After that we just walked around uptown Charlotte. 

 

We saw an Indian wedding.  So interesting.  They were all singing and dancing up the street! 

 

Ava and Mason running through the fountain in front of the Wells Fargo Building. 

 

 

It was a pretty cool city. 

 

 

The next day we went to this four story play place! 

 

 

It was madness!  And it was so hot!!!  We all got pretty sweaty in there!  Gross! 

 

 

Then we went to this river, I forgot the name of it!  But there were so many rivers out there and they are like real rivers!  Huge and wide!  The other thing I was shocked by was how warm the water was in the river!  I'm so used to mountain snow run off rivers!  So Will wasn't cold at all even though he is naked! 

 

 

Ava having fun throwing rocks. 

 

 

Lily wading! 

 

 

There was a butterfly flying all around Lily.  Can you see it?

 

 

We went on a little trail. 

 

The kids had so much fun! 

 

Lily and Ava both loved Mason so much!  Ava has asked multiple times since we left if we can go play at Mason's house.  She also keeps saying he is her best friend! 

 

We had so much fun visiting with Tyler and Emilie and we are so glad that they let us stay!!!