Skiing in North Carolina

Heath and I headed to Boone, North Carolina with our friends James and Tina for a long weekend of skiing this past weekend.  We woke early Friday morning to hit the slopes and were greeted with extremely unseasonable weather.  It was -2 degrees when we hopped on the lift at 9am.  While the runs became a little icy as the day went on and the lifts became quite crowded in the afternoon, we still really enjoyed our day on Sugar Mountain.

 

 

On our last run of the day Tina hit an icy patch and came down hard on her knee.  We decided then that Tina and I would sit then next day out while the boys hit the slopes.  However, when the next morning rolled around and the boys realized how packed our hotel lobby was with slope-goers they decided that the lines for the lifts might be way too long to be worth the effort to go to the mountain.  Surprisingly, the boys decided to join Tina and I for a day of shopping. 

 

Quite by accident we landed in the cute little town of Blowing Rock, NC where they were celebrating Winterfest with a polar plunge, ice sculpting, a chili cook-off and tons of shopping sales.  We wandered up and down this little town in & out of shops while snow gently fell all afternoon long.  It was a beautiful day that commenced with the most delicious lunch at the Blowing Rock Brewery. 

 snow flurries :)

 

loved seeing the snow