Saturday - August 9

 Warm and sunny Saturday.    We left around 10:30 for The Orchard Farm Stand for brunch.    So pleasant sitting outside on the patio with all the beautiful flowers.

Drove around the Catawba area and showed them Twin Oast Brewery - flowers weren't as nice and gorgeous as we remembered from other years?

Then more shopping - Grandpa was our chauffeur - Newport (more shopping after all the success yesterday, 2 candy shops, downtown for popcorn and Northern Exposure gift shop).   And then on home to rest, shower and off to church - 4:30 Mass at Immaculate Conception with Father Jonathan.    Great to be back with him.

Dinner at Gideon Owen - very good, but had some issues with our server!    Oh well....she was a bit flustered, they were very busy....all is well!

We walked around afterwards on the beautiful grounds and they had a big craft fair going on with lots of folks out and about this lovely evening.

Brooke, Blair, Pat, Mark

On home (taking an alternate route as traffic was really backed up from an accident)   Luckily we were able to turn around versus sitting indefinitely as it was a mess.

Brooke packed and then we sat on Catrina's bridge with our drinks - just delightful weather.  Donna stopped by for a visit and later,  Dennis arrived and more visiting with him and then time to call it a day!

One last pretty sunset with Miss Blair