Fun in the Mountains

We retrieved Ramsey from camp last Friday evening, much to her dismay.  We made a weekend of it since we were already in the mountains. 

We spent Friday night in the quaint little mountain town of Brevard and took in a movie at this quaint old movie theater.  If you haven't seen "Despicable Me" yet, I highly recommend it!  Only Ramsey is in the picture because Michael and Bradey were in the restroom...as usual.

Saturday morning, after a good ole' healthy breakfast at "Huddle House", we rented tubes from the Davidson River Rafting Company at the entrance of Pisgah National Forest.

We floated down river for about an hour and then walked back to our starting spot to float back down again.  We all had a great time.  The weather was beautiful and so was the scenery.

After our two trips tubing, we ate lunch at Sycamore Flats Recreational area and then headed for Sliding Rock.  Sliding Rock is a 60' waterfall that is not very steep so you can slide down it.  You can see a video of folks sliding down it at the bottom of this website page http://www.ncwaterfalls.com/sliding_rock1.htm  

That's Bradey sliding down above and Ramsey sliding down below

Here we are at "Looking Glass Falls".  Bradey was the only one that got in the water at the waterfall.

That evening we headed over to the Chimney Rock/Lake Lure area and spent the night at the Mountain Meadows Motel.  The motel has a pond for swimming, fishing and boating.  They have a picnic area, basketball court, volleyball, horseshoes, jacuzzi, etc.  There were a few other people there Saturday night but we had the whole place to ourselves on Sunday.  Love it there!

Saturday night and Sunday the girls went swimming and "peddled" around the pond in a little peddle-boat.  We all went fishing (only Michael actually got one on the hook and out of the water), played volleyball, and played HORSE in basketball.  Michael won both times...but barely.  It isn't fair when he stands directly underneath the net and uses his 6ft tall body and long arm to one hand it in compared to my 5ft 4" height and short arm!  Cheater.  I got him with the 3 pointers though (well, where the 3 point line would be for that little court  :).

We went home via Chimney Rock and Lake Lure and walked around the shops and lake...and the ice cream parlor :) 

It was a great weekend!  We are planning to visit again in the fall.  In the meantime, I'll be working on my under the net shooting!