Hey Jackie, maybe we should meet up again in DC! My kids have been there a few times, since their grandparents live in Maryland, but it's been about 4 years, so I think it'd be fun. Course, Benjamin will be busy with college stuff and may not go, but it'd be fun anyway! Actually, I don't know when we'll ever make it out there again! When dh's parents worked, dh's dad flew all over the place for his job and had so many air miles he didn't know what to do with them all! So he'd use some of his miles (lots of them!) for our family to come out to visit them! It worked out great! But now they're retired, so we don't have a way to get out there! The trip we met you guys on was the last trip before he retired.
Deena, check out Sandy Cove. It's the Christian conference center we went to last summer for a week of Family Camlp. The first week is Homeschool Week; we'll be going again this year. And, for all you military people out there, they have funds that allow military families to come FREE when dh has come home from deployment.
Sorry for the delay....I had to have a "clear thinking" day!!! OK, I have alot of info, so I'll try to break it down best I can: * - means a DONT MISS ONE TOURS - Biltmore (of course) Ashville Tryon Palace, New Bern * Lighthouses with Hatteras being the most famous Lowes Motor Speedway, Concord All major NC NASCAR racing teams Grady-White Boats, Greenville Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte (Home of the Carolina Panthers football) Blue Ridge Motion Pictures, Ashville Screen Gems Studio, Wilmington * (Home of filming of Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Nights in Rodanthe, Weekend at Bernies, etc.) Furniture tours in High Point and Hickory (sorry, dont know the names) Tons of Vineyards & Winery tours Then, the things to see and do: Grandfather Mountain, Linville Tweetsie Railroad, Blowing Rock Racing Hall of Fame, Charlotte Battleship North Carolina, Wilmington 82nd Airborn Division War Mem. Museum, Ft. Bragg Airborn and Special Ops Museum, Fayetteville Billy Graham Library, Charlotte Elizabethian Gardens, Manteo Wright Brothers Memorial * Lost Colony Play, Manteo Queen Anne's Revenge (Blackbeard), Beaufort NC Maritime Museum, Beaufort* Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, Hatteras Cherokee Indian Reservation & Museum, Cherokee any of the three Aquariums on the coast* NC Zoo, Asheboro* Now, for the FREEBIES! (my favorite) Ft. Fisher, Kure Beach * Ft. Macon, Atlantic Beach * Jockey's Ridge State Park (TAKE A KITE!!!), Outer Banks* Raleigh Museum of Science* The Wild Ponies at Corolla* ANY Krispy Kreme Shop** - Look for the "NOW" sign lit as each one has a glass wall for the kids to watch them making the donuts! Ask for the free hat if they dont give it to you. Pope AF Base Air Show, Goldsboro **(Check on any state's AF Base schedule to see if they have air shows) NC Pickle Festival (Spring), Mt. Olive * Have great places to camp too if ya like! Just let me know!~
We were deffinatly planning on going to the Mt. Olive pickle festival. DH and DD loves pickles so much so we go through 2 jars a week! I had to put a cap on it last summer we were hitting 5 large jars a week, or 2 jumbo mega jars a week....
