Driving To Asheville

This morning we packed up the car and drove to Asheville, NC, where Cait and Cullen were having their wedding reception. We stopped along the way at a scenic overlook in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was a long trip, through sometimes torrential rain, but we did finally arrive at 4:30. Once Eli got the car unloaded we drove to the nearby Botanical Gardens and had a leisurely walk.

Afterwards we went to dinner at the Tupelo Honey Cafe, which had a delicious all-organic menu. Even the kid's meals were something special, with items like sweet potato pancakes and grilled peanut butter and banana sandwiches (both our boys chose the PB&B, and boy did they taste good). Asheville has a diverse and liberal population, and its eateries reflected that reality. Nearly everything that wasn't fast food was organic, sustainable, free-range, all-natural, etc.