Last night we had intended to stay in Charlotte, North Carolina, but got tired and hungry before we got there so stopped for the night in Munroe. Despite the trains running fairly close to the motel we got a good night's sleep.

We drove further North in the morning, through Charlotte (a nice looking city with quite narrow roads) and found this unique church on the outskirts. It is difficult to show it in a photo, but the church is shaped like Noah's arc, with the front steps representing the ramp that the animals used to get into the arc.

About an hour further north, after stopping at Huntersville for lunch (how could we not, since it was probably named after our Grandson Hunter) we visited the Lazy 5 Ranch, a sort of safari park but without the dangerous animals. It was quite large and you drive through it. Most of the animals are looking for handouts and come right up to the car. We left our windows open to make it easier to take photos and were often surprised when a furry face would pop through the window...

Some animals kept their distance and were we quite happy about that. These guys had pretty mean looking horns...

When we approached this guy we could see little puffs of dust around him. Vyv said it was just him breathing, I could have sworn that the dust clouds were coming from his other end...

There was also a petting zoo, but Vyv was not too keen on hand feeding the animals...

Their were plenty of other cute animals though...