Hiking North Carolina

Our vacation to NC was so wonderful. We had fabulous weather - the type where you can wear shorts and a tank top but not be hot. The trees were just beginning to change to fall colors. We did hiking everyday (which is a new thing for our family), drove on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we ate all our meals at the house (and saved a lot of money doing that), visited little towns, found little playgrounds, ice cream parlors, candy shops and had a bonfire. The house we stayed in had a hot tub and tons of cute little toys for the kids to play with. I am goign to try to post a bunch of photos from the trip today.

Grace and Rita - wonderful sisters on a hike. They loved to run ahead of us and then sit and wait on the rocks until we caught up.

This is the coat hook in the house. It is an old log and I just loved it.
This was the front porch of the house we stayed in.

This was our first hike - we were very excited for this .7 mile hike!

This was how we did it - Ellen was on Nate's back everywhere. Sam held Nate's hand. And the girls ran ahead.

(Thank you Christy for the clothes!)