The rest of yesterday (Monday) went like this.....Luke and Maeve came home from school and we left shortly after all the hugs with them and Mommy - such a fun Thanksgiving week!
Away we went with Ryan with our 1st stop at Givens Highland Farms in Black Mountain where we plan to live one day (retirement community). Wanted to see the new construction going on and how much it had changed since we were there in June. Fortunately, Givens Highland was spared any serious hurricane damage but other parts were a different story.
The next town after Black Mountain is Swannanoa and oh my,,,,,,,,,,,we knew this town was hit very hard by Helene, but wow....just piles and piles of debris and so many buildings destroyed, vehicles overturned, trees down - another war zone. So very sad for this little town but as we keep hearing, these residents are very resilient and continue making progress.
Onto Asheville and decided on PF Changs for dinner. It was excellent and loved having the one-on-one visit with Ryan.
Pat, Ryan, Mark
Then to the airport which was fairly quiet but our flight was almost full back to Punta Gorda. We left 15 minutes early and landed 10 minutes early. The parking lot was really empty compared to when we arrived a week ago on Sunday, Found Ruby and on home crawling into bed at midnight!
Here it is December 3rd already.....slept in and then got the laundry going and the Christmas tunes cranked up - good to be back and got a few little decorations out - not much compared to ALL the stuff I've had over the years when it took me 5 days to decorate. 😕
We drove to Alva and had lunch at the Alva Diner where we ate breakfast a few weeks ago. Some gals here at CT told me that their broasted chicken was sooo good along with mashed potatoes and gravy and the vegetable of the day! So, that's what we had and it was very good! Then to Publix for some groceries and on home.
It was only in the 60's today but plenty of sunshine.
We went for a walk late afternoon - more folks are arriving, but still plenty away for the holidays.
Blair cheering at her Liberty Knights basketball game today
and Annette took Luke and Maeve sledding in Blowing Rock
Blowing Rock is all decked out for Christmas
Our sweet Snow Angel!
Philip was flying today with a flight attendant named "Connor Campbell"!!!!
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