We ran up to Charlotte to stay with some friends over the weekend.  The crowd was mostly people from Charlotte, but there were a few from the Raleigh area, too.  It is people we only get to see a handful of times during the year so it was really great to have some time with them.  Ostensibly, we are there so the kids can be with their friends, play games, and just hang out together, but us grownups really enjoyed it a lot, too.  We ate and ate and ate and talked and talked and talked.  It was a super weekend.  The picture to the left is of two characters some of you might recognize.