Weekend in the Mountains!

Last weekend we went up to Boone to visit Granny and Gramps and had a great visit! The mountains in the summertime is definitely the place to be. During the day, it was in the 70's and at night it was in the high 50's, so it was perfect weather to have a few adventures.

On Saturday we went to Grandfather Mountain and walked across the "mile high" bridge. Grady's first reaction - "NO WAY!" - was much like ours. The thought of walking across a very high bridge (with LOTS of people) that was swaying in the wind (with a toddler...and another little guy in the womb...29 weeks and counting!) didn't seem all that enticing. We did it though and were glad we did because it was beautiful! Afterwards, we had a picnic lunch and then headed over to see the bears, the deer and the otters. Grady particularly loved the bears and was really fascinated by the otters. (He loves deer too, but they were kind of far away....and we see them all the time in our yard.)

On Sunday we headed to Tweetsie Railroad.... Grady LOVES trains, so we of course thought he would love Tweetsie this year. (We took him last year too, but he didn't fully appreciate it. Luckily Gramps hooks us up with free passes, so we at least didn't have to pay the $30 each ticket price. Thanks Gramps!) He was very excited to see the big "choo-choo," so we thought we'd ride that first. We should have known the outcome when after sitting on the train for two whole seconds, he started saying "Go bye-bye," as in get off the train. He didn't mind the ride so much, but he was terrified of the whistle...it was rather loud! So, he was not happy for most of the ride and didn't seem to care that his own daddy used to work there (acting as an Indian in the skits....yes, can you imagine?!) It ends up that Grady wasn't the only unhappy little guy on the train.....another little 2-year old (named Brady ironically) sitting behind us had the same reaction.

Luckily he did love feeding the deer and eating ice cream (or "anu" as he calls it....we're still not sure where he got that name from, but we think it's so cute that we even call it that now!).