Busy Saturday

This weekend has been non-stop, but it has been so much fun, so I decided to do a blog since I actually got some good pictures.

The Weekend actually started on friday night, but I didn't take pictures because I am a LOSER, but we went to On the Border for Margaritas and lots of cheesey mexican food! In attendance were Me, Joseph, my old roomates Lindsey and Amanda, their Boyfriends Chris and Josh and our good friend Kyra. It was a nice small get together, but still big enough to finish off two pitchers of Frozen Margarita! Good food and good conversation made it a blast for me, and I will really miss these people when I am gone. So thanks to Amanda and Lew for putting on a great evening!

Saturday was just as much fun, Joseph and I took our last outing to go camping... which we didn't end up doing, we just drove around Winston-Salem all day! First stop was seeing my old College roomate, Hollie Mason, and her cute new doggie Sydney.

Hollie and I became friends our freshman year of college, lived together for two years, and I was a bridesmaid in her wedding earlier this year. Unfortunately that was the last time I had seen her, so since I was leaving for a year I wanted to make sure that I saw her before I left. Hollie, Joseph and I went to a quiet lunch and got made fun of by our waiter ( He kept thinking Joseph was from California, so since Joseph is so west coast, Hollie and I had to make about a billion "tubular" and " Hang ten Dude" comments. Apparently the guy just liked Joseph's many necklaces! ) It was good to see her, and since she is so crafty she has promised to make my SAO T-shirt quilt. She made a quilt out of her old SAO shirts from college, so since I had about 20 and had not worn them much recently, I figured a fun patchwork quilt when I got back would be a great welcome home present! She did such an amazing job on her's I know she will do a great job with my stuff. And that will give me another reason to go see her as soon as I get back!

After lunch we sat and talked a bit, and then Joseph and I headed out to go to Pilot Mountain to get a Survey Marker rubbing. We found a website a few years ago that had all the survey marker locations, which apparently people try to find new ones and then post them to this site, we thought it would be cool to join in this search, except we wanted to keep a record of all the markers we found, so we decided to buy a small pad of paper and so charcoal, and we make a rubbing every time we find one. We don't have many but it is a fun ongoing project that we can continue when we get back

Joseph and his dad had gone camping at Pilot Mountain a few weeks earlier and he found the survey marker, so we had to go back up there together in order to get the rubbing ( since we nowcollect them) but here are a few pictures from then.

After Pilot Mountain, we drove down back to Winston-Salem, and saw a car on the side of the road burst into flames, and have to be put out by the fire department. I felt it was kinda rude to take a picture, but it was crazy to see!

We then decided to finish the day with a round of Joseph's favorite sport, Discgolf. He has been playing for quite a few years and is really fond on the Horizons Park course ( we have been there several times just to play those specific 18 holes) So I made sure to get a few of those pictures as well!

The best part of the day was when Joseph started on the 11th hole, it was a difficult shot to make with his discs, but he threw it as hard as he could and somehow managed to get the disc wedged between two trees. He was not aiming between the tree branches, he just got lucky, or unlucky, but since this feat was so amazing I allowed him to throw another disc so he would not have to have an extra point on his score ( he actually ended up 1 under par, so we all know who he can thank!)

The weather was beautiful, it was not too hot and not too cold so it was so nice to just walk around all afternoon. We had worked up an appetite since lunch so we went to Cracker Barrel for dinner ( as we have done on quite a few other day trips we have taken) so here is a shot from the gift shop since that is where I always want to spend my time when we go. And Joseph was super sweet and bought me a Sky Bar since he knows how much I love them! I am also attempting to see how video works on this thing, this is just a short clip of the cracker Barrel country store, the fake bird we were playing with was not working properly and kept only half mimicking what we were doing so Joseph tried to make it sound like a teradactyl... it was just random fun, as always!