The Boy, The Girl, and The Babies: fall break

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Pilot Mountain

If you read the post below this one, you'll find we unsuccessfully tried to go camping at Stone Mountain on Friday, Oct. 12.

We finally were able to go camping Sunday night (Oct. 14) at Pilot Mountain. I had a really great time! I definitely want to go again. Usually I hate the smell of a campfire, but I didn't mind it so much this time. I didn't even wear any makeup! Shocker, huh?! The weather was nice, and it didn't get too cold at night. We made some foil dinners of chicken thighs, marinade, and bacon bits. It was pretty good! We toasted marshmallows on the fire and had hot apple cider and hot chocolate. It would've been nice to have more family with us, but at the same time I'm glad it was just the two of us.

There was only one drawback from that evening: I got three bug bites on my forehead!

Monday morning we hiked to the knob. I've been to Pilot Mountain a few times as a kid, but I don't recall ever hiking to the knob before. It was really cool! There are some crazy rock formations, and we got lots of great pics. I can't keep that boy off of those rocks!

All in all, we had a great weekend. I definitely want to do it again sometime!

The Knob

Fuzzy Adam way up high

Waiting on our chicken to cook.

I love how the sunlight sifts through the trees.

I'll post more pics soon. Blogger is not cooperating and giving me a headache!

Stone Mountain

Adam had fall break last week, so I decided to take some time off of work. We made plans to go camping Friday night at Stone Mountain in Roaring Gap, NC. It's about two hours away. I'm not sure what the reasoning was, but we assumed there would be plenty of campsites available. Once we got there, we drove straight to the camping area. The first sign I saw said "No Vacancy." For some reason I didn't really believe it. So we pulled over by the camping office, and sure enough the lady said there weren't any campsites available that night. Now we had all this camping stuff in our car and no place to camp.

We decided to drive to the hiking area and take a little hike to the "stone" of Stone Mountain. As we drove to the area, we came upon a crazy amount of deer! There were deer everywhere! I guess I shouldn't have been surprised, but I've never seen so many deer all at once. Anywho, we parked and "hiked" to the stone. I'm not much of a hiker, so any little hill is enough to do me in. I came out victorious, though.

We got the Homestead, and the views were beautiful. We also climbed some rocks, which I don't think we were supposed to do. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, we had to drive back home since there weren't any campsites left. We drove by Pilot Mountain just for kicks, but the gate had already closed for the night. Sagebrush in Kernersville ended up being our dinner destination, and Adam went ahead to work that night. Since I had Monday off of work, too, we decided to camp at Pilot Mountain on Sunday night.

Stay tuned to see all the fun we had there!