One of our very favorite places to be...North Carolina. No where else like it for us. It sure feels like home. The weather was great.
We drove Friday night and arrived early Saturday morning. The kids rode well and went right back to bed when we arrived. Of course they were up at their usual time but that was ok. We decided to go the Apple Festival in downtown Hendersonville. It was packed! People everywhere. There was some good entertainment and good eats! You can't beat fresh apples dipped in hot caramel. YUMMY!! If you check out the slideshow or the attached video you can see the homemade ride that Parker braved. Sydney was not at all interested. We had to ask a little girl to sit with him so he wouldn't fly out. You should have seen the driver of this thing whipping these kids around.
The kids loved the bench that Papa told them he made just for them. He called it their music bench so that is where they played the new harmonicas MeeMaw got them. We were invited a couple times to Miss Ann and Mr. Don's cabin down the road and they live on the river. The kids took advantage and went for a swim in the buff. Too funny! Lots of hangingout and hiking in the outdoors.
We spent another afternoon at the hands on museum.
One of our last nights there we went to La Strada's Italian Restaurant on Lake Lure.
Afterwards the kids got to roast marshmallows for the first time and eat smores.
On our last full day, Patrick, the kids and I took our regular drive up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. When we were up in March part of the parkway was closed and we had to take a very long and very scenic route to Mt. Mitchell. Mt. Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi. Lat time we made it up there, it was 32 degrees, zero visibility and the wind was whipping. It seems everytime we have tried to make it up to the actual peak there was just no visibility to to do it. Well this time we were able to take a direct path there and when we made up there it was about 56 degrees. we not only made it to the top but we also decided to take a hike when we were up there. 
The trail was listed as an easy to moderate trail. It was just the four of us on the trail. The silence was remarkable up there. And the smell...oh the smell..it smelled like Christmas trees all around us. We hiked almost a mile and the kids didn't complain or asked to be picked up at all.
The trail was listed as an easy to moderate trail. It was just the four of us on the trail. The silence was remarkable up there. And the smell...oh the smell..it smelled like Christmas trees all around us. We hiked almost a mile and the kids didn't complain or asked to be picked up at all.Who knew two 2 1/2 year olds could have sooo much fun hiking. :)
We didn't see until after we came out of the trail that the sign said Black Bears active in this area in the day and night time. Its the little sign down below.Good thing we didn't run into any.
No comments:
Post a Comment