Trip to Boone

We had a really fun weekend in Boone!  We were there less than 2 full days, but we had a good time.  Correction:  Bob and I had a great time, Erin had a pretty good time, and Anna hated it.  It was pretty cold - mostly in the 40s - and was cloudy, so that's not her climate at all.  We rented a 1-bedroom cabin with a loft, and the girls had their first experience of sharing a bedroom in the two twin beds upstairs.  They did really well with that, so we are excited for them to share a room at the beach and on other vacations now!  We got there on Friday around 3:30 and checked out the cabin, and had fish and macaroni for dinner as it was a Friday in Lent.  We roasted marshmallows after dinner too.  Saturday, we attempted to find some easy hiking in the area and ended up at the Boone Greenway, which was basically like any other town greenway, but the loop did end at a really nice playground that the girls enjoyed.  We hit the tourist spot of the Mast General Store, which the girls enjoyed looking around at all the old-time stuff and toys (of course) and picking out penny candy.  We had lunch at Chick Fila, then back to the cabin for "rest time" (which only lasted 20 minutes), then Erin joined Daddy in the hot tub.  They both loved that!

We built another campfire and dragged Anna outside for a short time, then had hot dogs for dinner and took a little walk around the cabin.  We also spent time playing inside the cabin with their moose-themed tic-tac-toe sets, board games, and Disney trivia game that Anna managed to sniff out from under a coffee table.  Bob noticed that she managed to find the only Disney-related item in the cabin!

Today we mostly just got up and packed, then headed out and stopped for church in North Wilkesboro at what may be the smallest church I've ever been in, and also one of the longest Masses ever...even for Palm Sunday!  We got back fine, even though it rained the entire trip back.

A few more pictures are HERE.  The cabin was perfect, very clean and seemed to be pretty new.  It was in a little cluster of 4 cabins at the top of a small mountain, but the others were all vacant so nobody heard Anna screaming to go back inside.  We didn't get to do a whole lot because we weren't there very long, but it was lots of fun (for some of us), and was nice to try something new.  The girls both adamantly prefer the beach and kept asking to go there!  Poor Bob, he's outnumbered yet again.  We'll give it another shot when the weather is warmer, but overall, it was a fun time together!