September Daycation!

Well, the Burnette's have been at it again! We decided yesterday morning to ride off for the day. We left home at 10:30 and found ourselves hungry just 30 minutes away in Harrisburg. We stopped at Bojangles and had biscuits and seasoned fries. YUMMY! We rode up to Lake Lure to look for a place that our timeshare doesn't "own", but has weeks available at. We asked a lady in sales if we could go look at the properties to see if we might like to book something there in the future and she gave us a window hang tag so we could get through security. I asked if they offered day privledges to Bluegreen owners and she told me no, but that was ok. We rode on in and looked around at the pool, golf course, lake beach area, and wellness center. The girls wanted to swim, but without day privledges we weren't technically supposed to go in. but we were able to walk right in to the pool area with no questions asked. This wasn't what Brandon and I had wanted to start out with for the day, so we talked the kids into going with us over to Chimney Rock to go hiking with a promise of ice cream afterwards and a trip back to the pool before we went home. So we headed down the most curvy road I have ever been on and Brandon had a ball handling his car in S turn after S turn. Emily and I got little carsick feeling, but we were ok. We went up to Chimney Rock and found out that one of the trails we had been waiting all spring and summer to hike was finally open. It was labled moderate to strenuous and not recommended for small children, so we were game! Ha Ha! We had to hike up to the Chimney just to get to this trail because the line for the elevator was long and we could get there faster by hiking. The girls did great and we got there in no time. Once we got up the the Chimney base, we hiked on up to "Exclamation Point" and saw some wonderful views. The weather was picture perfect and we could not have picked a better day to do some hiking. We even stopped to smell the flowers (see picture). We hiked back down to the shop at the Chimney area and Brandon and Emily waited in line for 30-45 minutes just to get us some ice cream. Abigail doesn't like ice cream and she picked herself out a salad with crackers and ranch dressing to eat instead. If you don't believe this, see picture! She said all the walking had made her hungry! She even ate the cucumbers that were in the salad after we doctored them up with salt and pepper! I sat with Abi and watched her eat while Brandon and Emily were in the ice cream line. When it was there turn to order I asked Abigail if she was sure she didn't want some ice cream and she said "No", so I ordered my 1 scoop of Bunny Tracks and 5 minutes later I realized that I had lost all rights to my ice cream cone because she liked it and ate it up! She was hungry! We rode the elevator back down to the parking lot and made our way back over to the pool we had sneeked into earlier. We changed into our bathing suits and helped ourselves to the ice cold pool (it was close to 7pm and the temperature outside was dropping too!) We played and helped the girls practice their swimming skills-Abigail is doing amazingly well and Emily is doing really good too. After all of our lips turned blue we went and changed back into our clothes. I had not packed a comb and by the time we got to Fatz Cafe, Brandon's hair was dried and he looked normal and me, Emily, and Abigail looked like drowned rats we matted hair! Oh well, we were on daycation, it didn't matter! We had never ate at a Fatz Cafe and we loved the rolls! My God, now I know why they call it Fatz Cafe, it can't be good for you! Our food we chose was mediocre, but waitress was nice and atmosphere was good, so we left happy. We rode on back home and finally landed-I mean got home, at around 11:30pm. We had a wonderful time and were so glad that the kids cooperated and were in such good moods for the whole entire day. We are so blessed to be able to take trips like this and enjoy our time together.

Today we are just catching up on lazy time, washing our beach towels and bathing suits, and cleaning up the house a little in anticipation of another work/school week ahead!! Abigail and Emily were listening to the O Brother Where Art thou CD earlier and Abigail came up and told me about the song Down to the River to Pray. She said first they said"Come on sister, then they said come on brother, and then they said come on babysitter let's go down" I thought I would roll! The last chorus actually says, "Come on sinner, let's go down, down to the river to pray." She thought they said sitter instead of sinner and then she told me babysitter instead of sitter. She is so funny. You have to be pretty smart to stay 1 step ahead of your kids so you can figure out their thought processes! Well, I hope you enjoy the rest of Labor Day and good-bye till next time!