Mt. Mitchell Mile High Lunch
We played hooky from church last weekend in exchange for a lunch at the top of the highest point in the Carolinas. The picture on the right was taken a few hundred yards from the peak of Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina.We spent the entire day on Sunday driving the Blue Ridge Parkway and taking in God’s awesome creations. Our boys loved it up there. Can you tell from the pictures below? We may live near the coast of SC, but our hearts are in the mountains. This was the first trip to the mountains for Caden and it was the first time for Riley since just before his first birthday.
We actually started out on Saturday and picked a few apples in Hendersonville, NC on the way up. Okay, it was actually Edneyville, but very few people have ever heard of it. I lived there for almost a year before joining the US Air Force back in 1986. We stopped by the apple house of an old family friend. They loaded us up with apples. My wife made about a bunch different fresh apple desserts for our Preparation for Parenting class that started this past Tuesday night. Everyone loved the homemade apple pie, turnovers, and cake that Sherry made not to mention the other appetizer things. I should have taken a picture for my Grill’n Time blog but the stuff didn’t last long enough to get a picture. Maybe next time.
November 13th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
I love the mountains, too. I would gladly take them over the ocean any day! (A crystal clear lake might be competition, though.)
I am really looking forward to taking my kids up some of the mountians in NH. They have never been up very high so it will be a serious “camera shot” when they see it for the first time.
And um…Ozz? I have a confession to make. You know how you said,
“We actually started out on Saturday and picked a few apples in Hendersonville, NC on the way up. Okay, it was actually Edneyville, but very few people have ever heard of it.”
Well, um, I’m afraid Hendersonville isn’t ringing a bell over here, either. But I s’pose Nashua, NH means about as much to you as Lyndeborough, NH, eh?