Definitely felt like we had a whirlwind vacation. I regret not having blogged as the events rolled by because now, I don't know where to start!
We drove to Raleigh last Saturday morning, saw some of Chapel Hill and stayed with Barbara and Joe, got to meet Phillip and Selena, and we spent Sunday at the State Fair.
I told Jason that I wanted to see atleast one side show at the fair. So I paid $1 and walked into the one that said "Head of a girl and body of a snake". There, inside this little cage was a python on a table but it had a head of a blond girl. I figured it was just a fake head but then she started moving her head, blinking her eyes, moving her lips and throat. It was rather disturbing.
My parents had a good time too, and they got to taste a little bit of the State Fair food. I was relieved we didn't lose them amongst the crowd.
You may have read in
Jason's blog about the unfortunate incident we encountered after the State Fair. We got back to the car and realised we had things stolen from the car - Father-in-law's new Q phone, Jason's Zen MP3 iPod thingy, my video camera and mom-in-law's unopened birthday present from Barbara. We called the police, waited for the police to come and made a report. Eventhough we may be able to replace what we had lost, we will never be able to replace the videos we had taken. What a way to end a beautiful weekend.
We were all poofed by the time we drove 3 hours back to Charlotte. Threw some new clothes into the luggage and were off to the mountains the next morning. Parents-in-law rented a neat little cedar wood cottage that had great views of the mountains with the nicest and comfiest bed. Almost as nice as Hampton Inn's. The fall colors were breathtaking. Lots of reds, yellow and orange. We stayed two nights and got home late Wednesday night.
Took my parents to Grandfather Mountain. My mom did really good on the swinging bridge and Jason took her up to the top whilst I was worried to death. It was very windy and foggy.
It rained all Tuesday so we stayed in for the most part of the day and just took a foggy drive to Valle Crucis to the Mast General Store and stocked up on candies. On Wednesday, we took the scenic drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway , up to Jefferson town to visit the Cheese factory and back to Boone, bought some apples and back to Charlotte. The mountains are always a nice breakaway.
We also got to meet Aunt Janet and Uncle Phil who was visiting from Ohio.
More on the week later.
Little did I know that I would be standing 3 straight hours in the kitchen making 48 tiny crepe quiche lorraines this evening. Quiches that Jason will bring to his Halloween breakfast party at work tomorrow morning, along with his pumpkin. I'm glad my mom is here to help me, because making tiny crepes takes up so much time. After the crepes were done, I placed them into tiny muffin molds and filled it with the egg batter, bacon, hard boiled eggs and cheese, and baked them. Batch by batch. by.batch. (because I only have one darn silicon muffin tray).
