So today was most fabulous...we got up at 7 and headed north to Mabry Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway... ate breakfast there in the little restaurant... I had a pancake combo with sweet potato, buckwheat, and cornmeal pancakes... then to walk around the grounds... seeing the old cabins and such... they had one set up for spinning and weaving and it was so neat...I bought buckwheat flour to make pancakes from the mill...

Then we went into Mt airy and walked up the streets of the downtown, hitting all the shops... we stopped at several neat roadside stands... at one, this boy who was prolly 9ish calls out... "Howdy...would jew lack ta bah sum peeches? ah picked em muhself" he was so cute... he was selling them in big boxes, so I asked if I could just get a few and he pulls out this bag... he helps me pick out pretty ones and fills this little bag stuffed... then I pay him the whole 3 bucks... and some man who looked like his grandpa says "hey johnny boy, fill that bag up... there's still room... put a couple nectarines in there..." so after giving the boy another dollar tip, that seemed to so excite him, I walked away with a bag stuffed with peaches and nectarines...

Then off to the Hillbilly Hideaway... where my dear child was a monstrous brat... oh well food was great and so was the company... Papaw and Sue...