Labor Day Weekend

Since Kris didn't have to go to school on Monday that gave us a little more opportunity to take some time and enjoy the area around us. We are still learning of cool things to do but we discovered a couple this weekend. On Saturday afternoon we decided that we would take a little trip to a place called Mount Airy. It is about 45 minutes from here and it is the place where the Andy Griffith grew up. Apparently his old house is a bed and breakfast now. Anyway, it isn't the place where the hit TV show was filmed but they have a recreation of the Old Jail House (which oddly is closed on Saturdays), the police car, and the barber shop. I don't remember details about this show but I do remember the whistling. We got there kind of late (4:30pm or so) and lots of the stores were already closed. We did meander through some antique stores and gift shops with memorabilia from the show. Then we had dinner at a greasy little diner that was kind of dirty but I had a delicious philly steak and cheese sandwich.
From there we went to Pilot Mountain which is a little mountain with a rock top. We didn't have much time to explore up there but we did do a little hike around the top. It was pretty nice and I think we only passed 1 guy. We looked into it later at home and found out that there is a bit of climbing there and that we can probably do them because there is some stuff that isn't too difficult. There are other trails there that we will go back and do when we have more time.
On Monday we went to Hanging Rock State Park which is also about 45 minutes away from here. We hiked to the hanging rock which is a bit like pilot mountain where the rock is bare at the top but at this one you could go all the way to the top and walk around. It was a bit of a drop off and it was way cool.


Our other little hike was to Window Falls and Hidden Falls. I guess that NC has been in a drought for the last few year so I don't know if the waterfalls would be more spectacular at another time but it was a nice little hike. The Window is the first picture and the fall is the second.

All in all we had a good time and now we have a couple of places close by that we can get more familiar with. We still have lots more to discover but it was a start.