Saturday, April 11, 2009

The Webb guide to touring Charlotte

To me, Charlotte sounds like a romantic, refined Southern city. It's just an hour-and-a-half south of here, and we went to check it out a few weeks ago. I was sorely dissappointed. It reminded me of NASCAR. What a let down. Zach wanted to go there to check out IKEA yesterday because he had the day off. But the boys got really tired:I made my driver drive me around while the boys slept in their carseats to see if we could find a little refinement. With my trusty Fodor's travel book as our tour guide, here's what we found:Charlotte's 4th Ward. I want to live here. It's right downtown next to giant skyscrapers like this one:

Which I love, even though I think skyscrapers are ugly.

Downtown has a kids discovery center with an aquarium and some museums I wanted to see, but we didn't because we're lame parents and we never wake up our boys. It's a coping strategy. After this we drove through the arts district, which is not really worth mentioning thank you very much Fodor's.

2 comments:

andrea said...

I'll let ya know what we think of the discover zone. Might be worth another trip during the boys' waking hours?

Natalie said...

Charlotte can be a lot of fun. David use to live there. I so need to take a trip down to Ikea!