A Visit to Asheville

We got back last night from our long weekend in Asheville.  We really had a great time visiting the Williams family.  As usual, the girls were all really excited to see each other. 

After seven hours in the car, we were all happy to be there, and after relaxing a bit, we headed down to the town center in their neighborhood for some brick oven pizza.  Of course, the girls (except Lyla) wanted to do sleepovers together, and after they “went to bed” the adults enjoyed time to hang out and catch up.

          

We all got to see Ryleigh’s soccer game on Saturday.  This is her reaction after she scored a goal.

Yeah, Ryleigh!

After the soccer game and a great lunch at 12 Bones, we went apple picking. 

You know you’re in NC when the sign at the apple orchard says this…

We got some great apples, and then got the tired girls home.   

     

While Mark and G were golfing on Sunday, Shen and I got a performance from the girls. They put on quite a show of singing and lip synching. There’s always plenty of fun to be had even just hanging out together doing nothing special. That evening, G taught Mark (who is NOT from the South) how to make grits.  What is this world coming to? 

Even though we head to leave on Monday morning, we made the most of the time we were there and had a lot of fun together. 

The big days didn’t stop there.  After the weekend fun, Nina started at her new school today.  She did great and loved it. Her new school is much different (in a good way) than her old school, and we really were glad to get to our neighborhood school this early in the year of being in overflow.  It was a big day for her, so we’re all very happy that this transition has started off so well.