This photo pretty much sums up my weekend. Yes, Kate is falling asleep in her backpack, but only because she was so overstimulated from her first time up in Pisgah, she barely napped the whole weekend!
Friday afternoon we drove around, showing the Ks my commute to work and making our way up Bearwallow. Then Kim made really good ham pizza for dinner, yummy!
Saturday was an absolutely *perfect* day. We slept in, woke up when Kate did, made French toast for breakfast, listening to John Denver, then Kate napped while I went exploring on some local "trails" (Jackson Park, the location of the NCGP UCI race), Kate woke up just after I got home, we headed up to the mountains to hike the upper part of Spencer Gap, almost to Trace Ridge, then we drove home via the muddy Bent Creek Gap before chilling out and walking to Papa's & Beer for dinner, where I got loaded on horchata. Kim and I settled in to watch the Spike Lee joint of Passing Strange, and by the time Stew was deciding whether he'd found The Real and whether it was all right, we were both wiped out and ready for bed. Perfect!
Sunday was ... wet. We managed to get out and drive around Brevard and H'ville, but too soon it was time to send Kim and Kate on their way back to Chicago -- thankfully, just before the tornado warning was sounded. I spent the evening cleaning up after their whirlwind trip, and was very, very sad to be alone again. I streamed a flick from Netflix (Sling Blade), and that was it.
Back at it today ... lunch ride up Merrill's Cove with a couple of our engineers. Nothing like a 30+ mph descent to forget about your woes for a moment!
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