Weekend trip to the mountains

We just spent a couple days in the mountains. Our friends, the Hagen's have a cabin in NW NC and invite us to come visit with them when they head up that way. (We like it when they just visit us on a trip up there on their own too!)

We arrived about 9pm Friday night and opened up the cabin - doing a little cleaning and bed making and turning the heat on before we headed to bed that night. Saturday, we got up and cleaned a little more before we headed out to the Churches of the Frescoes and the Ashe County Cheese Factory/Store. :)

We visited St. Mary's first and saw the awesome work of Ben Long

Then we went to the Cheese Factory where they were actually making cheese this time! They added a movie to explain how they make the cheese too - I like being able to make our vacations educational ;-)

then we found the 2nd church, Hope Trinity where we saw more of Ben Long's work and his version of the Last Supper. I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to attend a church like one of these!

It was sort of sad that we missed all the fall colors when we were up there because they're usually so beautiful in the fall. It does make me appreciate that we are still enjoying the colors around here though :) So, I will leave you on some of the views of the mountains. (Poor Hermione is so worn out from running up and down and all around while we were there - I went on 4 hikes, the boys and the Hagen girls went on more than that and Hermione was on all of them!)

We always have a good time with our friends and as usual, our visit was too short!