Kayak instructor Vaughn Corum bobs along with some of the 17,000 plastic ducks that were released during the seventh annual KinderMourn Hope Floats Duck Race at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, on Sunday, April 3, in Charlotte, N.C. The event is an annual fundraiser to raise money for KinderMourn, a non-profit organization that serves the needs of grieving parents and bereaved children and their families. The organization sold out all of the ducks they had days before the race.

A group of elephants from the 140th Edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are escorted through Charlotte N.C. on their way to the Time Warner Cable Arena on the night of Jan. 25. The circus is performing in Charlotte from Wednesday evening through Sunday afternoon.