A Nice Trip Away

I apologize for being MIA for a few days, but losing Jinjo threw me for a bigger loop than I ever expected, and after the events of last week, we all needed to get out of the house and out of town for awhile.

So we headed up to Linville Caverns, but it turns out the caves are closed in the winter and only open on Saturday and Sunday. That was a bit disappointing, but we quickly changed plans and decided to head further north to Grandfather Mountain and Boone, NC.

Here are some pics from Grandfather Mountain on Friday. It was SUPER windy and cold. We all had 3 layers on at least and James was actually wearing a hat, but we were still cold.

James wasn’t too into the heights or wind either. We made it halfway across the swinging bridge before he declared “I wanna go home!” and that this was way “too much!”

But we did have a good time in the nature area and James loved the animal habitat despite the fact that no animals actually showed up. In his almost-4 year old’s mind, the best thing in the whole world is running, running, running and the ramps and pathways allowed a lot of that!

I got lots of inspiration for more filler designs from inside Linville Caverns. On our way back home, we stopped in for a 30 minute tour and I took many pictures of these interesting rock formations:

Does this one remind you of anything? It’s a bit like Brain Coral which was inspired by corals in Josh’s fish tanks, but this is actually Cave Coral. I’m going to have to play with this texture and see what happens!

Overall it was a great trip, we all had a good time, and coming home today the weight of losing Jinjo wasn’t quite so heavy.

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day