Boone weekend with our "twins"!

What a wonderful weekend we had with Molly and Marshal! It was Homecoming weekend for Appstate, so we were able to get off work early and head to Boone! We stopped in Charlotte to pick up Molly & Marshal, who both went to UCONN, to bring them for a relaxing weekend at the cabin. We had the best time! After sitting in some traffic, we ordered Black Cat to-go, which is one of Kyle's and my favorite Mexican places in Boone. We went back to the cabin, gave them a tour, ate our food then started playing GUITAR HERO! We have Molly & Marshal hooked now (they've already bought their own), and were competing against each other all night.

Here is them playing... look at that concentration!

Saturday morning Molly & I woke up to the smell of bacon and eggs. The men had woken up early, gone to the grocery store, come back and made us breakfast! How sweet! We then took the dogs (Tupelo is M&M's dog, a mix between border collie and springer spaniel) to the Valle Crucis Park, where they could go swim in the river. The dogs had a blast playing with the frisbee, well Tyson would go for the frisbee and Tupelo would "herd" him back to us.

They are BFF!

Also while we were in the river, Marshal taught us how to make "war paint". It is supposedly what the Indians used, and you can get blues, reds, blacks, yellows-- heck ANY color when you rub the right rocks together. All we could get was browns (go figure haha!).

Marshal & Kyle acting like Indians with their war paint on!

After that adventure, we went and met up with Rachel, Mike & friends to tailgate before the game. We had some great food, along with playing red neck horse shoes and corn hole! We stayed at the game until halftime. App State was playing Gardner Webb, and won by a landslide 45 to 7! Next was to the Mast General Store on King Street. We all loaded up on candy from all the barrels full, then walked around to the ASU bookstore, Foot Sloggers & other outdoor shops. For dinner we picked up HOKKAIDO (our favorite Japanese place), went home and then decided to have a campfire outside! We sat by the fire, ate smores and talked for hours. One of the best nights we have had in a while for sure!

Sunday morning Molly & Marshal cooked us pancakes & bacon for breakfast! We then drove with the dogs to Rough Ridge Overlook off the parkway. It's about a mile & a half hike, to a beautiful overlook. There were no clouds in the sky, and could see all the gorgeous trees changing colors.

Marshal, Tyson & Kyle at Rough Ridge:

To top it all off we picked up sandwiches from the Ham Shop, and took a picnic to the Watauga River off of Shulls Mill, and sat on rocks while the dogs swam. The weather couldn't have been any more perfect, and the company of great friends topped it all off. We call ourselves "the twins" now, since Kyle & Marshal are brothers separated at birth, and we are finding out that Molly & I are the same as well! We are definitely looking forward to the next trip we take, hopefully it will be snowboarding!! Thanks guys again for coming!