The Curious Adventures of Scheer and Eck: September 2024

September 29, 2024

Enjoying the Outdoors

Alex is in Boston this weekend visiting his friend Eric, so I had the kids to myself! The kids had off from school on Friday because of Hurricane Helene, but were stuck inside doing school work with us all day. They definitely needed some fun activities to do this weekend, but their soccer games were canceled because of the storm. I instead took them to Carowinds on Saturday and to the White Water Center on Sunday. We just heard that school is canceled for Monday as well. I am on call so the wonderful Scheer Grandparents will have them for the next couple of days.

Carowinds

Harper brought Amelia so we could have an even number of riders.

We started in Camp Snoopy to warm up to the rides.

Camp Snoopy definitely feels too small for our kids now!

The park was having a Trick or Treat event so the kids were able to get candy!

Ethan was too nervous to ride this one. It was the girls favorite!

The kids got little pumpkins!

Ethan rode this one. It was definitely scary!

They picked Amelia for a jellybean tasting contest.

The swings are always a hit!

My babies!

We met Kate and her kids at the White Water Center. The kids played on this playground for a couple hours.

After the playground, I took the kids over to do a 100ft jump. Not only did they do it once, they did it three times!!! My legs could only handle climbing up to the top twice. It was a pretty scary jump. We were well above the tree line. I feel like Ethan could have handled any of the rides at Carowinds after this.

We are definitely loving these White Water Center passes.

September 23, 2024

Wonderful Weekend - Wonderful Wizard of Oz

We had a very busy and very wonderful weekend. Alex was in Durham at a curling tournament and Gigi and Poppy came to spend the weekend with us.

Reading books!

The kids had a movie night at school on Friday. We brought dinner and set up our chairs.

Harps was off with her friends for most of it.

Saturday was full of soccer! We started with Ethan's game. He is touching the ball more and more!

He definitely pet this dog more than he touched the ball, however.

Harper had her best game yet! She scored her first goal on this team, had one or two goal assists and was a great defender. We were in awe at her skill!

After Harper's game, we went to Wise Acres Farm for pumpkins and pizza.

We said hi to the goats first.

Then picked our pumpkins.

The kids love the swings here.

We had delicious pizza.

We went on a wagon ride that was super cute. The kids counted ghosts hiding in the forest.

The kids got Halloween surprises from Gigi and Poppy!

The kids and I drove to Beech Mountain to go to Autumn at Oz. This is a theme park that originally opened in 1970. It ran for 10 years before closing secondary after a fire, vandalism and declining interest. It re-opened again in the 90s just a few weekends a year. We were lucky to get tickets, but they were on the last day at the last time slot. We loved it! We rode the ski lift up to the top of the mountain where the park sits.

There were beautiful views of the mountains throughout the park.

Dorothy's house!

The journey starts with a show at the barn, then Dorothy moves to in front of her house to sing. The park is a series of acts as Dorothy meets different characters. There is opportunity to meet the characters for pictures as well.

The Gale house!

Awful Miss Gulch!

You get to walk through the house until you enter a "tornado". Then when you come back out of the tornado, the house has been destroyed. It is all lopsided and messy!