For Sydney's birthday this year I encouraged Sydney to just have one or two friends over for a slumber party instead of the whole pricey, stressful (at least for me) traditional party. It turned out FABULOUSLY! Sydney's bff, Makenna, came over and Chris and I took the girls out to Pizza Hut. They had their own booth. Chris and I felt like we were just on a chaperoned date. lol.
After pizza we went and played putt-putt. The girls had never played before! Can you believe it?? Needless to say, everyone had a great time. 
There wasn't any water going through the water falls, but the little water that was in the pools was FILLED with tadpoles! All that black is the tadpoles. I would love to do a time laps video and watch all the little frogs that hop out of there!
It threatened to storm on us but just made for a very nice lightning show.....and a nice sunset.
After we were done outside we went in to play some arcade games. They had a Tarheel basketball game, which Sydney loved....go figure!
Then they got to play some Guitar Hero....
We didn't do the birthday cake until lunch the next day. I bought a little cake and had some script put on it. It turned out real sweet....
It took Chris, 
The lobby of Wonder Works
There was an art floor with optical illusions. One piece was particularly cool it's made of iron...
Then when you turn the overhead light on it, this is what the shadow looks like....cool! 
When we were done at Wonder Works we found a room at the Clarion, which was walking distance from all the shops and attractions of main street. We were greeted by this guy (I think it was suppose to be a bunny)
I should do this with our towels and wash cloths....yeah, right!
And I felt great knowing that the strip of paper was put on the john for our protection.
I just though that this looked silly.
We had a great view of the Smoky Mountains! 
Once we got situated in our room, we went out and hit the streets. I had to get a picture of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant.....Bubba was Forrest's best good friend!
We made our way down to Ripley's Aquarium....such an awesome place! We went to the aquarium at Myrtle Beach last summer and just had to check this one out too. We saw big catfish (though not as big as Chris thinks! LOL).
This picture turned out really cool...
While going through the underwater tunnel, a fish caught my eye (it freaked me out actually!). It looked like it was sitting on the outside of the glass. I thought, "Holy crap!!! Loose fish!!!"
Kitty tells me this is a cuddlefish....odd looking fellow.
And then we saw the creepiest mothers!!! Spider Crabs....OMG! These guys were 3 feet wide (at least). The lighting didn't help the creepy factor! The video needs music, I know, just hum some sinister music.....
