Fun Fall Weekend!!

We had a great weekend this weekend.. started off Friday night by heading up to Capital City Club for dinner - we enjoyed the first Friday seafood buffet - and enjoyed clam chowder, chilled shrimp, smoked salmon, scallops, crab legs, etc. YUM! On Saturday, we got up early and headed up to Hendersonville to go apple picking. We packed a picnic lunch and arrived at Stepp Farms in Hendersonville around lunchtime, shortly afternoon... We spread out our picnic in the picnic area and enjoyed lunch, and then went browsing the gift shop, had some cold apple cider, got our apples, then took a wagon ride through the orchards.

After we left Stepp Farms, we headed a couple miles or so down the road and went to Granddad's, another orchard and farm. We browsed their gift shop, walked through the pumpkin patch, visited the small petting zoo, sampled their cider, and bought some pumpkin bread. Then we left and headed up the road a bit further, into Asheville. We went to the Asheville Farmer's Market and spent some time there, browsing one end of the Farmer's Market to the other, sampling cheeses and other things.

We ended up buying some tomatoes and other produce, some cold apple cider to take home, some Amish butter and cheese, and got a cup of hot cider this time to enjoy while walking around. Then we headed across the street to look at the pottery and flowers and visit the Christmas shop.

Finally, we left the Asheville Farmer's Market and headed toward home, stopping en route for dinner at the Blue Ocean Seafood Restaurant, which is just off the interstate near Clinton. We've passed it a hundred times or more and always talked about going in but never did. It was delicious! A new place for us to go when we are up that way.

On Sunday, we just did the usual things - church, a couple loads of laundry and a little yard work for a couple hours. Then Dennis headed off to play tennis and I did some work for my office. Then Sunday evening we headed out to dinner with a friend. We bought our discount fair tickets to go to the fair next weekend - yay! Other than the Greek Festival that is one of my favorite things to go to each fall, so I can eat my way around! I an almost taste the vinegar fries and elephant ears now! MMMMM!

I've got several different groups of pictures to post on here whenever Dennis sends them to me - we still have pictures from a couple other things to post - and we took some pictures in the orchards this weekend too so hopefully I can post them all soon!