Asheville Trip

In early August we decided to beat the heat and head for the mountains in Asheville, NC. It was such a great weekend. We hit a couple of import and antique stores, ate outside all weekend, visited gardens and enjoyed beautiful drives in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We also took a side trip to Bryson City to go rafting on the Nantahala River.

There is a very cool import store in Asheville. The owner makes several trips to India and Europe every year. Tough job. He revealed that he had a warehouse close to the store with all of the things he keeps on hand for stock and let us go though it! Yippee! He has some amazing things. It was hot but a lot of fun to poke through his treasures.

Aaron's beer radar went off downtown. He snooped out a tiny brewery called "The French Broad". Here he is at an old school desk sampling some beers. He liked them all!

Oops. A Picture of our backyard. You can see the finished pergola in the background. Just kidding. Ours is a little more basic than that. This part of the public garden is made to look like a quilt. Very pretty from an aerial view. One of our favorites to visit.

Busted. Aaron taking cuttings off of a plant to grow in his nursery at Meredith.

Eureka! My cupcake radar went off and we found a cupcake shop with a hilarious shopkeeper downtown Asheville. I tried the boston cream pie cupcake and Aaron got the raspberry filled chocolate. As you can see he is wearing part of it on his nose. He loves it when I take pictures of him eating.

We finished off with the rafting trip. Didn't get pics of it this time but we're going back in a couple of weeks with my parents so we'll be sure to post those. The cold river was so refreshing on a hot day and we finally got some long sleeve weather on the way up in the Jeep!