Road Trip

With all of Landon's lacrosse tournament, Ash and I finally decided to divide and conquer.  I would go to one tournament with the "easies" and he would take another tournament.  Somehow, I ended up with the tournament in North Carolina - with a 7 hour drive...ugh!  But, we divided up the trip with some road stops and made it fun.  First stop was Atlanta at the American Girl Store.




I have to say I was very disappointed.  And, had I made a trip all the way there for that alone, (as I know plenty who have)  I would have been furious.  Its just a store with all the stuff set up.  Lucy wanted every single thing.  And it was fun to watch her so enthralled.  They had a craft set up in a corner of the store that quickly got really crowded and overwhelming...lots of pushing and snatching.  And they had a doll salon, but it was just the salon chair that you can buy, set up on a long table with a bunch of people doing the dolls hair for $20+.  Still unimpressed.  The cutest thing about the store, was there cafe.
 


They have a seat just for your doll, and when they bring your food and drink, they bring it for the doll too.  I love her concentration in feeding her baby!!  :)










I was less than impressed with the place.  I am not sure what I imagined, but it definitely did not live up to it.  With that being said, if your in the Atlanta area, go see it.  Its fun and cute but, not worth a trip just for that...at least in my opionion.

So, on we go.  Landon and I decide we'll stop at each state line and get a picture in front of the welcome sign.  We lucked out with Georgia...the signs were just in weird places and too dangerous for me to pull over for.  But we managed to get a the rest of the states we drove in...









And, finally we made it to Charlotte for his tournament.  I've already blogged about all that.  But one of the perks of this tournament was tickets to a Major League Lacrosse game - Charlotte Hounds vs Boston.  It was so. much. fun!  We arrived early to tailgating in the parking lot with music...











and games...










with most importantly, prizes!  :)



Lucy won a mini stick of deoderant, which the guy apologized for, but she couldn't have asked for a better prize.  That stick was in her hand the whole night!



We finally made it in to the stadium and Landon caught up with his teammates.









Lucy decided she wanted in with "the boys"!!  :)  Love that girl!







There was a lot more lacrosse that weekend and that was that.  We got back on the road and headed home to this little one who was missed so much!!