Matthews Chamber Holiday Gala 2019

Clint and I always have an amazing time at the Matthews Chamber Holiday Gala and this year was no different. I had the honor of photographing the event this year and it was pretty clear that everyone had a great time.

This year it was held at the Hilton Garden Inn at Waverly and was Sponsored by Novant Health Matthews Medical Center and Dessi Dufresne of Edward Jones.

Feel free to scroll through and see just how much fun everyone had at the event recognizing some of Matthew’s amazing local businesses.

Sloth Encounter - Tiger World - Charlotte, NC

Yesterday with Lauren, Adam, and Adrienne I got to go meet a baby sloth at Tiger World! His name was Nacho and he was way softer then you would imagine a sloth would be. Adrienne and I came up with this for Lauren’s birthday present and I got to say, we totally benefited from it as well. Such a cool experience. We learned a ton of things, like how sloth saliva is actually toxic- so no sloth kisses for us- and that Nacho could actually rotate his ankles around so that he could climb down a tree without shimmying down butt first!

Lauren was totally enamored and was definitely not paying attention to our guide so I was trying to look like I was to make up for it. I think we retained like 25% of what she was saying because we were all so excited. Sorry!

Tiger World is using these encounters to help build Nacho a nice warm habitat which is really awesome. We found out that 4 out of 5 of the animals at Tiger World are rescued from all over the place. It was a very neat place to visit. Highly Recommend it!

The Birthday Girl

Sloths have little hidden ears under their fur! They almost look like human ears.

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Not Another Film Post - JK It is-- Charlotte, NC

I'm forever taking photos of these kids and their dogs.  If they weren't so darned cute they wouldn't appear as much in blog posts. 

So thankful that the Hubby had such an awesome best friend so that I could steal her away from time to time and she could help me harass him when need be, or you know, for fun.  

Thanks to the The Dark Room for doing such a great job with this film!  Especially since I still have no idea, how old it was.... My bad guys.