If you read my MommyB Knows Best blog (and you should if you're not!!), you'll know that this past weekend we visited Asheville, NC for a blog conference. Joel was an amazing husband and brought the girls and me so that I could attend the conference (since Colbie's still not taking the bottle.)
The conference was on Friday, so we decided that Saturday we'd enjoy Asheville as we ventured home. We got to see a lot of great places including a very Biltmore-esque Grove Park Inn. We got a peek inside the resort and it was beautiful. Maybe someday we'll save enough to actually stay there!! While we were there we also visited some of the cool museums and art studios, it was so eclectic and fun, I kind of wished we lived there, but I know the nutty-crunchy inhabitants would probably scoff at my disposable diapers and mini-van *LOL*
Here are some pictures of fun, art, and cars in Grove Park:
Avery and the Model-T Ford
Joel loved this place
Random Bathtub in the Antique Car Museum....eerie!
Miss A and the beautiful Butterfly Bench, doesn't she look like a butterfly?
Cool metal flower sculpture
A nice gentleman working at the car museum found some bubbles for Avery to play with. Daddy was "helping" too :)
We loved the amazing art work, wish we had enough money to buy it, but at least we got to enjoy it. The piece above is from a really nice man, Carl Powell, he had a huge black standard poodle named Jasper that thought Colbie was a toy and he does amazing things with glass and concrete. Check him out here:
http://carlpowellglass.com/ By the way this was Joel's favorite piece, so feel free to set up a fund for him to purchase it, I think it was only $10,000 or so.
It is rare that I'm seen in front of the camera, especially with the girls, but we were living it up in Asheville, the weather was perfect and I was with my three favorite people. Good memories!
After our adventures in the Grove Park area we drove around and found some local joints for lunch and dessert :) We enjoyed the New York Deli Style feel of
Circle in the Square where we ate some yummy sandwiches and Avery enjoyed a Boar's Head hot dog. Then, we HAD to try out this fun ice cream shop, I'd heard all about it on Twitter so we went a couple of doors down to
The Hop. The Hop is a very hip ice cream shop, they make their own ice cream, serve non-dairy ice cream and other tasty treats including organic ginger ale! Such a super friendly place and great stop for kiddos if you're visiting or passing by. Check out Joel's homemade Banana Pudding:
Here's Avery enjoying my Nutella ice cream.
All in all we really enjoyed ourselves in Asheville and can totally see ourselves going for a mini-vacation. Wanna come next time???
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