Saturday, July 2, 2011

Carowinds

We planned a fun "long" weekend to Carowinds which included a two night stay at the Hilton in downtown Charlotte, an afternoon riding rides in the park and we had made plans to spend a full day with our own cabana at the water park in Carowinds...So, after arriving to Charlotte we checked into our hotel, but because it was so late in the afternoon we didn't take our bags up to our room....Instead we went directly to the park so that the children could enjoy what was left of their day riding rides....
We were all so excited and after spending most of the afternoon and night riding rides and planning our next day out we headed back to our car to find it had been broken into....Hannah got to the car first, opened the passenger rear door and glass fell all over her legs.....Shane and I will never forget the look on that baby's face. Horror is the only word to describe the feeling when she screamed out....While we were in the park some ding dong decided to pick our car to steal stuff out of and the crazy thing about it all is they were probably stealing our stuff when I took this picture above...Which was taken as soon as we walked into the park gates...
Earlier in the day Carowinds had a car fire in the parking lot which caught 8 other cars on fire...When we pulled in the smoke was gone, but the security and police were all still focused on that incident instead of the rest of the parking lot...We learned later from the glass repairman that the thief took well over 30 minutes to break in, so the incident had to have happened right after we left our car....This is scary to me because more than likely they watched us get out of the car and walk away...They knew no one would be looking because the security was focused on a bigger matter and they had plenty of time to do what they need to do which is rob us.
The thief stole 2 ipad 2's, Shane's business macbook air, the bag that it was in all the chargers, our car stereo/dvd system and our gps...They also stole my makeup bag which was full of MAC makeup..All totalling about $4,000. Yes, It was a pain in the butt that the thief stole those items and broke our dash and car window, but those things are replaceable.....

The two most important things stolen was our family time that we were enjoying and looking forward too and our feeling of security.....The question is: Will we go back to Carowinds? ...YES....Why? Because we will not let this evil person rule over us. Trust me we will be much more careful and extremely protective over our family and our possessions, but we will not be held captive by anyone! That only gives them the power over us. We are so thankful to God for his protection over us. Thank you Jesus for watching over our family! God is so good to us!


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