Segway Surprise

This past week we celebrated my parents 30th Wedding Anniversary.

My parents decided that they wanted to do a surprise "family adventure activity" for their anniversary. My sister flew in from D.C. and her boyfriend Rich drove in from Raleigh to spend the weekend with us. My poor sister hates to fly and she was terrified the entire trip, but thankfully she made it one piece.

We received an email the week prior to the "mystery adventure" with the following instructions:
Be at our house at 7:30 AM
Wear light clothes, bring a hat and/or sunglasses and wear sneakers.

Our minds wandered for days and we threw out ideas such as : white water rafting, hiking, horse back riding etc. My mom was so excited that she kept this surprise from us!

Off we went Saturday morning bright and early. We drove to Huntersville (still clueless) and ended up at Latta Plantation Nature Preserve. Gorgeous grounds. As we approached the end of the park we saw Segways and found out that we were going to be riding Segways throughout the nature preserve on a guided tour. After 45 minutes of saftey training and lessons on how to manuver the Segways (this is not a natural movement and takes time to adjust to) we were off and away. THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN... We didn't realize how much fun this was going to be initially and were definitely a little weary. Only the photos can capture the memories and the great time we had.

After the ride we ate a picnic lunch Bass style at the Preserve. Mom made pasta salad and we ate it out of CUPS. We used to do this back in my sister's dance competition days so it was a real treat and a blast from the past. I am sure Rich and Philip thought we were crazy :)

After 3 hours in the park we returned home exhausted. After our much needed naps we hosted a big cook out at our house, played croquet, ate on our new patio furniture and celebrated with my parents!

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad - 30 amazing years of love and laughter!