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Speed Street, Charlotte, NC





Jeff Gordon on the card on the windsheild. It was cool to see the cars up close. I might just have to become a NASCAR fan. Just kidding.



Menu for a heart attack.
They also had Cheesecake on a stick. It was a frozen wedge of cheese cake that they dipped in chocolate right there. It looked soooo good. Maybe I should have bought one of those too.



Ribbon Fries- they stuck the potato on a drill with some sort of shredder attachment at the end and made a pile of fries! Yes, a drill, a real drill.



This guy is eating a Turkey Leg- people would just carry them around like that, biting off big 'ol chunks. Bleh.


Our first Deep Fried Snickers! With powdered sugar on top. Mmmmmm.


Yeah, it was REALLY good! The whole candy bar was melty and warm.



Naomi would have eaten the whole thing if I didn't make her share!


She spotted a "M M" and was SO excited:)


The mascott for the Charlotte hockey team- The Checkers



At the cereal booth, a picture with the CoCo Puffs bird.


Last weekend in Uptown Charlotte was Speed Street. It's hosted by a grocery store chain and there are tons of vendors giving out samples of all things food. Gogurts, a fizzy gogurt- carbonated? Cereal, gum, coupons, etc, etc, etc. The big event it's all winding up to is the Coca~Cola 600 race that was yesterday. There were about 15 NASCAR racing cars out on display, Naomi thought they were pretty cool. There were several stages with live music going round the clock. Friday night was Kelly Pickler and Saturday night was Travis Tritt. I didn't see either.....


But the most amazing thing about all this was the PEOPLE. Everyone and their dog, literally, was there holding a beer bottle. about a mile of city streets were closed off for this and people were just pouring into town. During the day on Friday I took the kids down and met Zach near his building when he was done with lunch. We rode in on the city's new light rail system. It's like the Metro but newer, smaller and cleaner:)


While we were there Friday there were a lot of other parents and kids and business people on their lunch breaks. Naomi and I had hot dogs and ice cream for lunch. We all went back down Saturday afternoon and it was more of a weekend crowd. Kind of like Lagoon.... if you know what I mean:)


While there the second time I decided that it was time to try some authentic Southern street vendor food.


Deep Fried Candy Bars. (or Twinkies!)


Zach couldn't keep his eyes off the enormous Turkey Legs people were gnawing on, but he declined when I told him to buy one.

It was a fun weekend, especially since Zach was home! Friday evening we had a little cookout at our apartment courtyard with some of the other Summer Associates Zach works with (and their significant others:) And today we spent the day at the mall shopping! What a husband huh? Really we shopped mostly for Zach, spending his b-day money from our parents on new "Business Casual" clothes for him. He was loving it:) Then he was a good sport and made a few stops for me, even entertaining both kids while I tried on things. Both Naomi and James were patient at the mall. Naomi was really sad to leave actually. Then she fell asleep instantly in the car.

So our long weekend is over :( But I'm looking forward to another good week here in Charlotte!