Father's Day Uptown in the QC

Charlotte is known as the "Queen City". I don't know why. Also, when you travel into the QC, you don't go "downtown", you go "uptown". Again, no clue. It's jes the way we do thangs roun these parts. We's good people.

Anyway, we went uptown to the QC today for Father's Day. But first, Claire made us a delicious breakfast of scrambled cheesey eggs, crispy turkey bacon, a melange of strawberries-raspberries-blueberries (aka berries), cantaloupe, and chocolate croissants. YUM. Spud thought it was just delicious. He ate it all, except he doesn't seem to care much for the cantaloupe. The food he wants most of all is the food you are eating. He points at it and says "At", which means, "I'd like to eat thAT, even though you are about to put it in your own mouth." He does this at every meal, and screeches intermittently if we don't hand it over at a reasonable interval. It's like having an affable but extremely pushy puppy.



Then a quick splash in the pool. Spud inherited his mother's disdain for cold water, so he hasn't enjoyed the pool experience much until today. It's been in the 90's the past few days, so the water is nice and warm-ish now. So it's mostly fun, although he does tend to avoid the open water and must cling to something. Either the edge, or Mommy.



Then we headed out. First to Amelie's French Bakery in NoDa for lunch. Claire got another chocolate croissant and I got an eclair. Spud pointed at both and got to sample some of each.

Then we headed further uptown to Trade and Tryon, the center of the city. On Sunday it's pretty quiet and you can actually find parking. We checked out the fountains. I think he was concerned at first that he was going to have to get in the water.



Notice our tropi-cool Father's Day shirts. Mucho aloha dude.



We examined the various streetside artworks on display.



We sauntered about in a park.



We snacked.



We thought some deep thoughts, and some shallow ones too, and we learned a little bit more about the great big world.



We strolled carefree under loving and watchful eyes and we belly-laughed and we soaked up the warm summer day.