Still catching up.
Monday, May 14th
I woke up early to have breakfast with my parents at the hotel restaurant.
Then it was time for me to say goodbye and drop them off at the airport.
Lance and I departed sometime after that toward Asheville.
Lance slept the majority of the way there. We hit a big thunderstorm for about an hour. Once it passed, it was a pretty day.
It was a 3 and half hour drive from Durham to Asheville.
Our first stop was The Biltmore Estate.
We toured the inside and then looked around on the side of the house.
We split a sandwich to hold us over until dinner and planned on walking through the gardens. The weather had other plans and it started to lightning and rain.
We made it back to the car before the bottom fell out.
We snapped some photos of the gardens from the car window.
They have a shopping/touristy area that we decided to check out.
We went wine tasting of the different Biltmore wines.
Our next stop was at the pub next door.
There was a guy playing a guitar and singing. It was relaxing.
We checked into our hotel and then walked to dinner at a local Thai place. When I get Thai on the brain, there is nothing else that will suffice.
Tuesday, May 15th
The next morning we headed to Atlanta. We did a detour along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The clouds blocked the view part of the way, but we were lucky enough to get some great views.
South Carolina was the first state line that we crossed. We jumped out of the car for a picture.
We ran into standstill traffic one hour away from Atlanta and I started to get anxious. I calculated the drive and added 2 hours to make sure we would get there before the Aquarium closed.
We made it with 1 minute to spare (they allow you to enter up to one hour before closing time). We also got half price because it was at the end of the day.
I gave Lance a tour of the Olympic Centennial Park once we were finished at the Aquarium.
We checked into our hotel room and then walked over to a brewery that was across the street.
Lance had a bison burger and I had just a plain old burger. We were both satisfied.
Wednesday, May 16th
We had about a 5 hour drive to Pensacola Beach.
We arrived just a little before check-in time.
We got cool ID holders and had an ice bucket in our room to take down to the beach.
We spent the first evening out on the beach for an hour and then at the pool.
We watched the sunset from our balcony and then headed to dinner.
They had a bar outside on the beach with a fire pit.
We relaxed and had a drink.
Thursday, May 17th
We went for a little shopping on the boardwalk and then had lunch at Subway.
We played frisbee on the beach and laid out.
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I relaxed in a hammock while Lance played some beach volleyball.
Friday, May 18th
We ordered breakfast to our room and headed out early towards home.
We stopped at an outlet mall an hour into the drive for Lance to get some deals on his favorite brands.
We made it to New Orleans by 4:30 and walked around for 2 hours.
We had beignets at Cafe Du Monde first thing!
Lance got a drink on Bourbon street to enhance the shopping experience.
We arrived in Houston just around midnight and I collapsed after unpacking.
I had a great time, but was so happy to be out of my car.
