Where do you take your family when they are in town?

[revitalize]

Someone already mentioned this, but... one of my favorite things I've done with out of town guests is take them to the greenway trail near Freedom Park. We went for a great walk along the creek and went around the pond in the Park. ...and I also got to show off some of Myers Park's tree-lined streets and beautiful homes on the way there!

[cinco]

well, aside from all of the seasonal activites that our wonderful metropolis has to offer...here are some of our lovely mainstays.

*bowling @ george pappas with dinner @ sir edmund halleys

*whitewater park

*a day of indulgence @ georgetown spa (plaza-midwood) with dinner @ dish or lulu (even though you get dinner @ the spa)

*hezekiah alexander house with dinner @ lang van

*lots of area golf courses

*frisbee golf @ reedy creek & kilbourne

*boating, fishing, swimming on lake norman

*victory lane go-carting center

*gallery crawls in NODA with dinner @ cabo fish taco

*sketch comedy @ the perch (also comedy zone)

*feel the night rhythm in any one of our many uptown nightclubs

*of course there is shopping @ southpark, but i would recommend following with a dinner @ the village tavern - outside on the veranda (resonable priced and one of the best dining atmospheres around)

*horse riding @ latta plantation

*new skateboard park on wendover

*bocce and beer @ mellow mushroom NODA

*antique shopping in waxhaw (also has a history museum and an alphabet museum)

*freedom park (don't forget there is a nature museum there)

*duke energy explorium

*ice skating @ eastland mall

*mcgill rose garden (on north davidson)

*drum legends museum (if this place is still open - they have over 100 drum sets from the greatest drummers known to man) this is located in concord

*mechanical bull riding @ coyote joes (also line dancing)

*hike crowders mountain and gaze back @ the queen city

... just to name a few and with the right company all of these things can be lots of fun (ok, not the alphabet museum). not too mention live music nightly in various clubs, a number of museums and theatres, and plenty of sports and shopping. charlotte really does have lots of ongoing things to offer.... you just have to dig around.

[DigitalSky]

wow what an extensive list. some good ideas in there