Mount Airy with TBC

Chris and I joined the 55+ group from our Church on a day trip to Mount Airy. Our minister was a former pastor at a Church there for many years. We had never been there so we thought it would be a fun little trip to go on. For those of you who don't know Mount Airy is the home for "The Andy Griffith Show."

Our first stop in Mount Airy was this restaurant called Snappy's. They are well-known for their porkchop sandwich. It didn't look to appetizing, but it actually was!

Chris and I walked over to a little store next door.

Chris found comic books so he was happy:)

We got a little tour around town to see all of the "tourist" attractions related mainly to Andy Griffith.

We stopped by this huge rock quarry. I believe he said you could spot it from space.

Our tour guide carried a sling and wore a superman costume. He wasn't even a big superman fan. He was very nice a funny though:)

Our last stop was downtown. Snappy's was downtown, but we didn't get to browse around. Chris and I went to this bakery and got that huge cinnamon bun below.

We then went next door to another antique type store. They had comic books too!

Overall we had a great time! It was nice getting to know a few other people from the Church. I'm glad we randomly decided to go on this trip!

Bachelorette Weekend

My good friend Maria planned an amazing Bachelorette weekend for me at the Mountain House. Many of us who went/go to "South" (AKA Ridgecrest) know this place way to well. There are a couple of families who own this house who are apart of the Church. In the past I have been with Amy's family and our Youth group. We have many wonderful (and not so wonderful) memories here!

Isn't it such a cute little house?!?! It's very peaceful on top of the hill!

Amy, Amanda, Maria, and myself arrived to the house first. We actually arrived a whole day early to prepare the house for the rest of the girls arrival. UNC played that night, so I was very glad they had satellite at the house:)

I believe Kristi and Delight were are next arrivals on the following day. Then Kaylene (the Birthday girl) and Amie arrived. Jess arrived later on that night! We were so worried about her, b/c it's not that easy of a place to get to!

I made a little book for Kay called "Symbols of Oregon." I drew silly little pictures to go along with them. She's from Oregon so I wanted to give her something to reminder of home:)

Belated Birthday cards for Amie and Brandie...

I bought the little parachute men for us to play with to celebrate Kay's b-day. As you can see Kristi was really enjoying putting it together!

The girls climbed on top of the roof to send off the little parachute men. Mission Failure! The parachutes didn't work very well

We visited to waterfall! I wish we would have taken another group shot with Jess:(

These two random dogs hung around the house. Amanda is a dog lover:)

Both dogs were a little camera shy...

Kristi, Amie, and myself played this game. It SUCKED!

Dinner that night was grandma's lasagna, which was mighty good!

The next morning I made breakfast to the girls and gave them their wedding gifts. I bought these cool necklaces from etsy along with the cards I gave them.

Breakfast was yummy....cream burlee french toast, blueberry cream cheese muffins, and sausage and egg casserole.

It was nice just to do absolutely nothing on this trip:) I think we all enjoyed the peace and quite from the real world!

Sister-n-law:)

I finally got him to look at me:)

We went back to the waterfall the next day. This time Jess was with us and the dog tagged along too. He wanted to ride in the car, but ended up running along side Kristi.

My girls. Believe it our not I'm still missing some of my bridesmaids. Some of them were not able to make it on this trip.

Apples to Apples time...