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 […]
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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 […]
Hanging Rock
On Saturday (yeah, I know, it’s Wednesday now….I’m BUSY!)… On Saturday, we (me, Derek and Billy N.) went to Hanging Rock State Park, all the way up in Stokes County. We got lost on our hike (again) and wound up 4.5 miles out of our way.So, due to time constraints, we went back to our […]
Pilot Mountain
Derek and I hiked up Pilot Mountain on Saturday. He had just returned from NYC and I from Raleigh, so we were pretty tired. We also haven’t had many carbs in about a week, so we started off slow. We missed the start of the trail (I do not know how!), and wound up hiking […]