Weekend with the Brothers

This past weekend was so much fun. My brothers came to visit and we all had a great time. They arrived on Friday around 2pm and hung out with Chris until I got home from work. We then went to the epicenter in downtown Charlotte and ate dinner at Wild Wings. It was delicious except that we ordered way too much food then left our to go box on the table. OOPS! After eating we decided to go bowling which was also in the epicenter. This bowling alley is so nice, there was an hour wait to play! To kill time we walked around the epicenterr and showed my brothers around. Finally we got the bowl and it sure was a sight to see. We all did pretty well but surprisingly I WON!!! It was pretty late after bowling and we had to get up early for Carowinds the next morning so we went back home and played a little Rock Band before going to bed.
The next day we woke up around 10am and got ready for Carowinds. Chris and I haven't been in forever and we were excited. Dylan had been there once, I think and Davis had never been so they really didn't know what to expect. I said in my other blog that my brothers weren't even sure if they liked roller coasters. I was a little nervous that they wouldn't, but we would see. When we got there, we hopped on a small roller coaster right away. After standing in lines and riding a few roller coasters, my brothers felt brave enough to go on one that had a loop. It also happened to be the roller coaster that you stand up on (Vortex)Wow...it was crazy. Davis looked like he was passed out after the ride was over. He put his head down and closed his eyes the whole time, but he was fine. Dylan watched the whole time and he loved it, even though he was a little uncomfortable in the stand up position with the bar between his legs....if you know what I mean. After that we were roller coastered out for awhile. So we ate lunch. $20 for two slices of pizza and two drinks! RIDICULOUS
We then decided to go to the water park area because it was starting to get hot outside. We rode a few water slides but the best one was the one where all four of us we in a tube together. The man told us that we should hold on but I didn't think he was serious. The first turn there was I almost flew off and Davis was actually off the slide at one point. So fun but too long of a line to do again. The wave pool was fun too and I felt like I got some exercise swimming in those big waves. Then we rode the log flume. That was Dylan's favorite ride. On the way off the ride you can stand and get splashed from the water that the log shoots up and we did that 4 or 5 times.
Even though it seemed like there were so many more rides to go on we were there for 4 hours and we were pooped. We were also hungry again and didn't want to pay for another $20 meal. So we went home and relaxed for awhile before cooking some burgers and fries for dinner. We really didn't do much that night because we were so tired but the boys played some video games and we watched a movie.
The next day we woke up early again and made breakfast. Chocolate chip pancakes, bacon, and hash browns YUM! Then my brothers had to go home. It was sad to see them leave because it didn't seem like they were here for long, but Ill see them in a few months for the Panthers vs. Redskins game!!
Although Dylan is going off to college in a few weeks, I wish we could do this more often. It was so fun to catch up with my brothers. It is so much different then when I lived at home because they are so much older now....5 years older. I'm going to start to plan another time they can come, we had too much fun!