Yesterday, we began calling around a bit, to find out hours, prices, etcetera, for some of our potential stops. Upon calling tweetsie, we learned that they were now only open on the weekend (since school starts tuesday – makes sense). Anyhow, thankful that we called, we loaded up our little train junkie and headed out. […]
mountains
Mountain Vacation – Days 0 and 1.
We made it to the mountains on Friday evening with little fan fair. fan fare? whatever. we’re here. On friday night, we unloaded, made a grocery run and headed down to the lake to feed the ducks and take a paddle boat ride. The duck pictures were a bit blurry and without faces, due to […]
we’ll be comin’ ’round the mountain….
the day is finally upon us… tomorrow, derek and isaac and i will depart for the mountains for a much needed vacation. isaac is excited because all he knows about the mountains is that thomas the train was there last time. i think he might be disappointed, but i’m hoping that tweetsie will suffice. derek […]
day out with thomas…
a few weeks (months?) back, we went out to blowing rock to tweetsie railroad for the “day out with thomas”… thus began isaac’s obsession with thomas the train… here are some pics. if you click on any of them, the internetz will whisk you away to my picasa album, which contains many more thomas pics… […]
see that rock?
yesterday (that last of the beautiful days), carlye, isaac and i piled into the rodeo and headed off to pilot mountain for a little bit of outdoor fun. i brought the backpack for isaac to ride in style. little did i know that he would walk/run/climb the entire way (and scream for the 100 feet […]
the week in pictures
we rode the ski lift up sugar mountain: the beautiful (sarcasm) scenery from the top of sugar: swimming in the resort pool: playing with the light switch. a new favorite activity: sliding down the roller slide at the banner elk park: climbing the rubber/rope ladder: playing in the stream: golfing with josiah and josiah’s dad: […]
mountain vacation
on friday afternoon, derek, isaac and i headed out for a week long family mountain vacation in banner elk, nc. we got in around 7:00, after stopping for some groceries on the way. yesterday, we rode a ski lift up to the top of sugar mountain, walked around, took in some scenery and then rode […]
Home
Last night, we made a spontaneous decision to head home early. We had hit most of the things we wanted to and were out of ideas, so we figured we could save money and some vacation days for Derek by heading back early. You can see all of our pictures here or you can watch […]
Vacation Slideshow
So, Derek has been diligently posting pictures of our trip to the picasa site.Since our connection to the www.internet.com is sooooo slow, rather than duplicate his work, I figured I would just tap into what he had already accomplished. Here is a slideshow of pictures from our trip. It will update whenever Derek adds new […]
Vacation Updates
So, we’re in Banner Elk.It’s been fun, thus far. Yesterday, we headed to Boone and hung out there for a little while. The boy rode around in the backpack like a trooper. We went swimming here in the afternoon, then headed out for dinner. Today, we almost went to Grandfather Mountain but decided not to […]