Labor Day in Highlands

"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day weekend." -Doug Larson

I used this quote because it made me laugh, but I have to say we were blessed to not experience an unusual amount of traffic this Labor Day weekend.  Thursday, after David got home from work, we left to visit his side of our family in Highlands, NC.  We had a great trip up, even though we didn't make it until close to 10pm.  But we got to listen to the Heels play on the radio, which made the drive fun (until we started losing REALLY bad, at least).

We did so many fun things on our trip.  We at lunch one day at Ghangri (http://www.ghangri.com/), the Asian fusion restaurant in Highlands.  It is always so yummy, and Joseph enjoyed hanging out in his high chair and eating baby food while we ate the real stuff!  ;-)

We went to Harris Lake to feed the ducks and Joseph didn't seem scared of them at all, despite the fact that the geese kind of took over and some of the hissing, mean ones had to be chased back by David!

We walked around downtown and did some shopping...



You can't see Joseph in this photo, because he was riding on David's back in the camo Boba (Joseph will ride on David's back but will only ride on my front...who knows)


 

Highlands had been unseasonably cool in the weeks before our visit (and, being at such a high elevation, it's usually much cooler than Greensboro anyway), but on the visit it was quite sunny and warm!  We walked down to Mill Creek, a creek that runs near David's parents house, and sat in the grass for a while.  David's mom and I waded in the creek, and it was warm enough for Joseph to take a lower-half dip!

 

On a different day for lunch, we went to Pescados, a Mexican restaurant in town.  Joseph thought his Banana and Pumpkin food was just about as good as our quesadillas!

The weather was so pretty that we sat by the water feature in the front yard one afternoon...Joseph loved hanging out in the sunshine!

Little man even stayed happy in the car for most of the trip!

Some other things that we did while we were in Highlands - we watched fireworks from Pine Street Park (these were the postponed 4th of July fireworks since they were rained out back in July), we listened to music in the town square, we cooked out with my sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and nephews, and we ate tons of yummy food that my mother-in-law made for us!  On Monday morning, we headed home.

This was also the first Highlands trip since we started the baby homeschool year with Joseph (more on that in a different post soon) and David started his MBA.  I packed a "school bag" for both of them so that they could do school stuff up there.  Joseph and I even got up early Friday morning, before everyone else got up, and did our baby homeschool curriculum up there!  Joseph (and I!) had Labor Day off from "school," so we got back into the swing of things back here at home on Tuesday.

We are so blessed that both sides of our family now live in one state!  I look forward to Joseph making many more fun memories on Highlands trips throughout the years!