Comin round the mountains

The Austins took a road trip this past weekend, heading west to the mountains of North Carolina.  Here we are at the start of our little mini vacation.

We stopped in Greensboro on the way, to check out the children's museum.  LOTS of fun to be had there.  I'm thinking this picture would be more appropriate if Maggie was a backseat passenger in the police cruiser.

Baking bread (they didn't have donuts!)

Libby pounding drums on stage.  (Maggie was back stage trying on all the beautiful princess costumes.)

Piston Cup, here I come!!

Not a space shuttle, but piloting an airplane might come a close second.  

The only thing that can make my children seem little.

We took this little trip because Rob had a hop farm tour to speak at on Saturday.  We hit up a few local breweries and the girls and I checked out the first farm.  Then I took the restless natives exploring.  We found a little street festival in downtown Waynesville that had some crafts for kids to do, and Maggie got her face painted like a kitty.  After Daddy was finished with his work, we walked around downtown Asheville a little, and wanted to check out "Splashville", a play area with water squirting around.  They had the fountains off because there was a little out door concert about to start, so we did some dancing on the lawn instead.

Sunday, we went down to Boone to check out Tweetsie Railroad.  The kids really had a great time, the weather was perfect, there were no lines for the rides, and the funnel cake was funamenal phenomenal.

Maggie. Valley.

Libby's favorite ride.

We watched a couple of shows.  The first one was some can-can girls in a saloon.  Maggie got very upset because she couldn't go on stage and dance with them.  Luckily, we found another show with the world famous Tweetsie cloggers.  They invited the kids up to dance on stage at the end of their show.  You can see a little bit of the can-can influence in Maggie's performance.  

(still trying to work on getting the video to work...sorry)

On our way back to Apex, after a night in the best hotel room ever!  

"Mommy, this place has a Mickey Mouse bathtub!!!"

Actually, it was a red, heart shaped tub, pretty much smack in the middle of the room.  Awesome.  I definitely recommend the LaQuinta Inn in Boone.  Room 300 in particular.