Weekend Trip to Raleigh

Last weekend, we decided to take a little getaway.  We have been wanting to check out the Marbles Kid's Museum in Raleigh for awhile and were kind of itching to get out of town and visit a few other places we don't have - all the 'amenities' of a real city.  We ended up having a great time. The Kid's Museum was a lot of fun and we got a hotel with an outdoor pool and annoyed all the people who were relaxing poolside with their cocktails.  Ha! 

Here are the girls in downtown Raleigh walking into the kid's museum.  They insisted on holding hands.  Actually, it's usually Piper who insists on holding Josie's hand.  She doesn't like to hold our hands anymore - just Josie's.  It is pretty cute, but Josie gets really frustrated if she's not up for it. 

The kid's museum was huge!  We were there for a few hours.  In this section, there was music from around the world and the kids can go pick the music they want to play.  They both really got into the dancing, but Josie broke out all her moves.  She went to town dancing.  The world would definitely be a better place if we were all comfortable enough with ourselves to break out dancing like that when feel compelled. 

 And of course, there were animals.  Piper wasn't happy about having to leave this horse. 

 

Unfortunately, we forgot our camera, so we took these pics on our phones and don't have any pictures of the rest of the weekend.  We also visited Trader Joe's, REI, the Raleigh Running Company, and the Raleigh Farmer's Market.  And we had dinner at a Lebanese restaurant downtown on Saturday night and a good breakfast Sunday morning.  Why Lebanese food, you ask?  Well because the restaurant we first decided on and picked (based on their menu online) only had one highchair and it was being used.  Which is really a pretty clear message that kids are NOT welcome.  So we walked around until we found the Lebanese place, which was great.  We all loved the food except Piper wouldn't eat anything except of Clif bar.  Oh the joys of feeding a toddler!   

We look forward to our next trip to the "big city".