Two and a half months after we were married we whisked off to Boone, NC for our week long honeymoon. We started our trek up to the mountains Sunday afternoon after church. We stopped off some good friends house, Stef and Bob, to drop off Duncan to play with this "girlfriend" Mimi.
Once Duncan was blissfully unaware that we were leaving (which took like five seconds once we got into Mimi's house). We said our goodbyes and hit the road.
We took the usual 3 hour drive and made a pit stop in Hickory, NC. The home town of Todd and stayed the night and played board games with Todd Sr. his dad and Amber his sister. Well you can imagine the craziness that unfolded from that one!
We had a blasty blast and then went to bed. Monday morning we hit the road for Boone, NC! What a drive and site it was. The Great Smokey Mountains are really something you just have to experience to truly enjoy.
The views area breath taking everywhere you look. You can't go five whole minutes without seeing something that simply amazes you. Poor Todd I drove him crazy after awhile since I'm a very dramatic girl for good or bad. I would say dramatically how beautiful everything was every time I saw it. After a while he said "Emily we get it, it's pretty." However, me the ever drama queen continued to express the vast beauty that was The Great Smoky Mountains.
We traveled up the neighborhood road which was a long twisting typical mountain road that due to the steep hills in the mountains could not extend directly up so it twisted and turned and snaked and took a few minutes of a drive. The drive however was completely worth it for the views of the mountains were at its best there.
Once on top of the mountain we settled into our cabin. We stayed at the cabin named
Top Snaggy. It was was beautiful! It was a two story beautifully built wooden cabin with all the mountain glories a cabin should have. The floors were wooden, the walls were wooden the CEILINGS were wooden! The management was so nice to us we had just a wonderful experience over all.
There was a pool table and a hot tub and cable! The first day we got there we decided to get an idea of what the cabin was like and check it out and see all around then to go to the grocery store to get some supplies... aka food. So after we took ourselves on a tour of the place we hit up Walmart for some food and yummy goodies. We got a few dinners worth and some Deans and Chips since it was a celebration after all! After that we came back to the cabin and settled in and put the groceries away. Then we hit up the hot tub for the first time on the trip. It was then and there we decided to spend every moment we could in that hot tub. So at least once a day we were in there sometimes twice a day!
Tuesday we went out to lunch at Our Daily Bread. AMAZING... that's really all that needs to be said about it. It had been a place Todd had talked about for a few years so it was a must on our list of things to do while honeymooning. We drove around Boone and looked at ASU and all the hidden treasures that Boone had to offer. We would have walked but I wasn't prepared for how windy and cold it would be so I voted we drive, so we did. Then we headed back to the cabin for more relaxation.
The rest of the week we stayed in enjoyed each others company and sat looking at the mountains and chilling in the hot tub.
Then Thursday night we got a wonderful surprise! SNOW!! It really couldn't have been more perfect than it was. We were completely covered with a white powdery blanket of snow. That night as it was snowing we both looked at each other and said: "Hot tub?!" So we rushed down to the hot tub and quickly uncovered it... after all it was snowing and below freezing and we're standing around in bathing suites like crazy people! Then we rushed into the nice hot water. It was the coolest sensation ever to be surrounded by snow and having snow fall on you and you be completely content and warm in the water.
Friday morning Todd shoveled snow off the steps of the cabin the first time I had ever seen a snow shovel! It got put to good use. The mountain man was a nature with it ;)
Friday afternoon we chilled out in the hot tub again surrounded by the quiet and the snow hoping it could last forever but we knew it had to
end sometime sadly it did. That night we went to a fancy dinner: GOLDEN CORRAL! Yeah thats how we celebrate! It was it's yummy awesome goodness as always and it's us.
It was the last night there so we packed up so we could be ready to leave in the morning. I didn't want to go and I tried to convince Todd that we needed to move to the mountains but for now it was back to the city.
We had an amazing time and couldn't have asked for a better honeymoon! Two great people loving the great outdoors and loving each other.
Until next time!
Classes started officially for us this past week and we both had our first class on Thursday. Not very exciting as most first days go as usual all you get is the syllabus and the introductions but over all we both had great starts to this school semester and look forward to good grades...although if I pass I'm happy!
