Here are few more sights as we headed out of Asheville. I wanted breakfast and we ended up in West Asheville at the coolest little cafe where we sat out on the patio and chatted with our server. She was wearing a pink tutu with shorts under it, then had cut off a pair of pants and made little leg sleeves out of the pant legs, tied with ribbon, worn over combat boots. Loved it! Come to find out she grew up in Kenai. Her parents are still there.
Should have taken a picture of her but we left the camera in the car. Breakfast was divine--I had breakfast bread pudding with a hot compote of fresh blueberries and whipped cream on top. All home made. Rich wanted to know what made it "breakfast" bread pudding. Just the time of day, I guess. He was teasing me about having dessert for breakfast. It was delicious. And, of course, I had to have sweet tea. Man, I am going to be a sweet tea addict by the end of this trip.
We saw this on the road as we were leaving.
On to the gorgeous Blue Ridge Parkway.
We took back roads through the hills of NC and boy, did some of them wind around like crazy. It made the trip a lot slower but we really didn't mind too much. We finally arrived in Atlanta yesterday evening. We had pricelined a room and got the Marriott Marquis downtown for $75. We love priceline! We are on the 39th floor with a nice view of the city. Last night we walked to the Sweet Auburn Bistro where we had wonderful "southern" food--fried chicken, pork chops, mac&cheese, collard greens, cornmeal pancakes, peach cobbler and strawberry shortcake. Oh, and sweet tea. We could hardly walk back to the hotel.
Here are few more sights as we headed out of Asheville. I wanted breakfast and we ended up in West Asheville at the coolest little cafe where we sat out on the patio and chatted with our server. She was wearing a pink tutu with shorts under it, then had cut off a pair of pants and made little leg sleeves out of the pant legs, tied with ribbon, worn over combat boots. Loved it! Come to find out she grew up in Kenai. Her parents are still there.
Should have taken a picture of her but we left the camera in the car. Breakfast was divine--I had breakfast bread pudding with a hot compote of fresh blueberries and whipped cream on top. All home made. Rich wanted to know what made it "breakfast" bread pudding. Just the time of day, I guess. He was teasing me about having dessert for breakfast. It was delicious. And, of course, I had to have sweet tea. Man, I am going to be a sweet tea addict by the end of this trip.
We saw this on the road as we were leaving.
On to the gorgeous Blue Ridge Parkway.
We took back roads through the hills of NC and boy, did some of them wind around like crazy. It made the trip a lot slower but we really didn't mind too much. We finally arrived in Atlanta yesterday evening. We had pricelined a room and got the Marriott Marquis downtown for $75. We love priceline! We are on the 39th floor with a nice view of the city. Last night we walked to the Sweet Auburn Bistro where we had wonderful "southern" food--fried chicken, pork chops, mac&cheese, collard greens, cornmeal pancakes, peach cobbler and strawberry shortcake. Oh, and sweet tea. We could hardly walk back to the hotel.
