Things have slowed down a bit on the house. The factory is about 5 weeks behind. We are now expecting the delivery around mid August.
Since we had some spare time we decided to take a 9 day road trip out to Virginia to see Adams Grandpa and Aunt. We may never fly again, the road trip was so great an we used the money that the airline tickets cost and went to the Biltmore in Ashville, North Carolina. HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS DESTINATION!!!
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| View from Balcony overlooking Vineyard, Farm & Shops |
It was right in the middle of the smokey mountains with amazing views, food and service. It was the nicest hotel we have ever stayed at. The Hotel itself was 4 miles though the forest from the actual Biltmore. They have a shopping and dining village at the bottom of the hillside from the hotel with everything you need and a farm! We spent a lot of our time playing with the chickens and goats and Adam drooled over their farm set up, lots of ideas he has for our farm was implemented in theirs. (He kept stating that he was a GENIUS! ) :) Yea Yea. The Biltmore was HUGE, we only saw 1/8 of the house and could have spent 3 days going through it.
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| The Biltmore |
We went kayaking down the river behind the Biltmore and ate dinner in their fabulous restaurant each night and for breakfast.
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| Adam doing all the work.... |
We went to the hot tub at 6 am and watch the sun come up over the mountains and snacked at their on site creamery each day. YUM.
We spent 2 days with Les in Virginia Beach, and fought the traffic getting in and out of the beach area. Took over an hour to get in or out of the parking areas.
Then we spent the night in Richmond with Aunt Trish and she fed us well and let us take a much needed nap. She took us to a seafood restaurant called Crab Louie's and it was the best seafood we had the entire trip. Nothing beats the fresh seafood on the coast.
On our way out of Virginia we went to Thomas Jefferson's Estate, Monticello, to see his farm and orchard. Adam is basing some of our farm layout on Jefferson's so he wanted to get an up close look at it.
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| Half of Jefferson's Vegetable Garden |
Now its time to start working on the house again. We need a new electrician, ours skipped town on us and we have called 4 others that have not called us back. Frustrating but we may have one guy that will be good and are talking with him again Monday.
Hope everyone is well and had a great 4th of July!
