Beautiful, beautiful Boonetown!

SO this weekend we ended up in Boone! We had planned to meet Sara & Joe camping this weekend at a couple other places, but had a last minute change the day before to meet at the cabin in Boone! Luckily it came available, so we could all stay there!
Kyle and I took 221 up there Friday night, and it was just beautiful. We stopped about 30 minutes outside of Boone in Linville Gorge and drove up the mountain to see all the beautiful stars. It was pitch dark outside and so peaceful. We ended up going to sleep pretty soon after we arrived at the cabin, since we're still fighting off this terrible cold!Saturday morning we woke up and headed to King Street to walk around downtown Boone and see all the homecoming festivities. We went to the bookstore and bought a new hat for Kyle and a new sweatshirt for myself! We both just love walking around and taking everything in there. Sara and Joe arrived around 10:30 (we got out of downtown just as the parade was starting!) and we went to the cabin to help them unload their things and make a plan as to what we would be doing for the day! We decided to go to the Ham Shoppe to pick up a picnic lunch and bring it to the Valley Crusis park. We let the dogs swim, and the weather couldn't have been more perfect.
We dropped the dogs off and then headed over to Howard's Knob to look at the gorgeous views from there. We could even hear the game going on... don't you worry I did a little bit of the fight song dance! Sara took a belly shot with the view in the background... can't believe in May there will be a little baby in the picture!

Sara and I:

The entire ASU campus:

We walked around downtown Boone for a little while, going to a bunch of outdoorsy stores and Mast General to get some candy! There was a cute little 4-man country bluegrass band playing inside-- I could have sat there for days and listened. For dinner we grilled out some cheeseburgers and then watched IronMan. It was REALLY good! Sara headed to bed, so Kyle, Joe & I all went down and sat by the fire they had made. It was very relaxing, with no wind so the smoke just went straight up! No smores though... just wasn't in the mood!Sunday morning we had a wonderful breakfast made by Kyle, and all devoured our breakfast burritos. We then headed to Blowing Rock for the afternoon to walk around the shops, people watch, and see the changing leaves. We stopped back by Hokaido on the way back to the cabin... man do we love that Japanese food! After cleaning we all sluggishly got on the road around 3:00 to get back to our homes by a decent time. We had such a wonderful, relaxing weekend in one of our favorite places and are so glad that Sara & Joe could come spend it with us. Thank you both for making the drive, we had a great time!!