On the Road

North Carolina Mountains

Ocoee Tennessee

Eating our picnic in the explorer

Cousins

Melanie curing her headache

Last Friday we were on the road again, driving down to Birmingham to pick up Melanie and Gene.  We were headed to Asheville to tour the Biltmore that was showing 45 Downton Abbey costumes. Elaine ( Chuck's sister) and Fred ( not related to me but to Chuck and I still love him) sent us four free tickets to the Biltmore Estates.  I know...I said " FREE".  We just HAD to use them and not let them go to waste.  We were sweating the weather since just two days before, we had gotten almost 11 inches of snow.  The snow was still on the ground all the way to Asheville but all of the roads were clear. It was so pretty to see the mountains covered in white.  We had packed a picnic lunch and found a pretty spot in Ocoee Tennessee along the side of the little river in the mountains.  Of course it was  too cold to eat outside so the explorer did just fine keeping us warm.