Back It Up to Thanksgiving

We're gonna get in our time machine and back it up to Thanksgiving, when we kinda took a holiday break from blogging.  Now that we put in down in black and white and pictures, it doesn't seem all that exciting BUT we had a great time - even if SOMEBODY didn't capture all our fun on the the camera.  We took a little road trip with the food hauler up to the foothills of North Carolina where we spent the WHOLE week.  Mom and Dad got us this dog park up there a few years ago (that's what we call it anyway) and we go up there on occasion.  It's got lots of room to run around and no neighbors nearby (yay!).  It's real pretty and you can see the mountains, um, Dad calls them "hills" 'cause, you know - he likes the big Rocky Mountains.  But WE like it! 

We get to spend all day outside wandering around while Dad fixes fences and does Dad stuff.  Mom reads and takes us for walks and throws the tennis balls.  All in all - FUN for us!  There's no lecktricity or running water but we have the food hauler and there's a little creek to drink from.  There's a river, too, but we can't get down to it very easy.  Anyway, we had all we need, really.  

We had fire . . .

And sweaters . . .

and each other to keep us warm. 

Things are a little more cozy in the food hauler, as you can imagine.

And when Mom and Dad got bored, we took a drive and here's some of what we saw.

A cool gate

Lake Lure - where they supposedly filmed Dirty Dancing

An Inn/Restaurant all wrapped up for Christmas. haha Mom thought this was a present from Dad.

We think this is the coolest name ever for a town.

See the bat over there on the left?  We don't think it's a REAL bat though.

This is the Jackson Building in Asheville.  Mom & Dad were fascinated with this building and took about a hundreds pics of it.  It is kinda interesting that it has HEARTS and GARGOYLES on it.  Strange mix.

Close up of Gargoyle.

Roof of City Hall - Mom likes red tile roofs

Roof of the First Baptist Church

This is for our furiend LOLA of Pei Days.

Lola - we didn't know you had a shop in Asheville.

This would be Mom's favorite place!  That is, if we woulda let her stop and go in.

A teapot statue in the River Arts District, Asheville. 

You know how Mom loves the art! She wanted to go shopping, but this was actually Thanksgiving Day and all the studios were closed.   If you love art, you really should visit this area - lots of working studios!

Metal sculpture in the River Arts District. 

Metal Sculpture in the River Arts District

um, MORE metal sculpture

and . . . you guessed it!  MORE metal sculpture.

This is a cabin Mom would like to have - instead of staying in the food hauler.

And HERE's what happened to one of the tires on the food hauler on the way back home to SC.  Good thing we had three more.  It looks like SHREDDED WHEAT.

TIP - do NOT drive around like this.

We had to call someone to come pick up Dad so he could go to the tire store and get a new tire, then come back and put it on.  We're lucky to have a handy guy like Dad who can fix stuff 'cause Mom sure can't!

AND . . . we still made it home by sunset.

The Road Dogs (reporting from the foothills of NC)