This weekend was a bit more chill than last weekend… Thursday, Lynette threw a going away party for us… which featured awesome food… awesome drinks.. and amazing conversation late into the evening….
Once again, I was slacking with the pictures… really, the only one I took was:
I need to get back to taking pictures more often… I always bring the gear, and plan to do it… but… it’s more fun to socialize than to sit there snapping away the entire time… I need to find a happy medium…
Today, we went to Asheville to spend some time with Courtney and Ashley… we started off with lunch at 12 Bones, a BBQ place that apparently President Obama eats at when he comes to Asheville.. it was some pretty good swine…
We then went for a walk around Asheville, which was unseasonably warm… but they were having some sort of art / craft sale thingie…
So… we walked around… Courtney tried to talk us into buying some sort of air plants…
I don’t know what they are… but… according to Courtney’s excitement about them… they make you fly. They make you have x-ray vision. They may even make you be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Courtney was rather excited about these things..
So.. we walked around… looked at stuff… then… of course it was time to get back to our regular scheduled programming… so… we found a wine shop that was doing a tasting… sampled some tasty white wines from New Zealand… then walked into a store that specializes in: Potato Chips. …. …. Really. They had all kinds of chips… a menu you could order from… and even free samples of their plantain chips with a Nutella dipping sauce… they were pretty dang good… but… a whole store that sells nothing but potato chips? I’ll be looking to see if this store still exists in the future…
We also went into a pretty cool beer store… they had a rather amazing selection, but their prices were a bit higher on the beers that I recognized… They did have a huge selection.. and the above super-cool beer cabinet made out of a monk… the front of his robes do close… so.. yeah.. I’m adding this big burly beer bureau to my birthday list… I’ll figure out how to hook up a refrigeration system in his organ cavity….
After walking and sampling wine… and chips…. of course, it was time to eat again… so we hit a place that specialized in chocolate… beer… and ice cream… I had a macaroon brownie… Virginia got a “Stout Float” … yeah… Stout beer with 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream in it…
It was an awesome trip to Asheville… spent with good people… eating good food… having good times… add trips like this and people like Courtney and Ashley to the list of things/people we’ll miss from Boone…
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