On the morning after Christmas, we were sitting around the breakfast table with Cathy and Eric trying to plan our day. We thought that a trip to the Biltmore House would be a nice way to spend the day but due to my lack of poor planning, they were already sold out for tickets through the rest of the week. It was a bummer because the Biltmore House is especially beautiful during Christmas but I wasn't too bummed because basic tickets at Christmas are $124 PER PERSON. YIKES!
So we decided to head to Greensboro to tour The International Civil Rights Museum. Our tour guide was excellent (and extremely passionate about civil rights) and it was so neat to see the actual lunch counter in it's spot where the sit-in took place in 1960 in the actual Woolworth's store. They did not allow pictures inside the exhibits but here's a few I pulled online.
After the tour, we went to lunch at Mac's Speedshop and then we went to LeBauer Park where they had an outdoor skating rink set up. The rink was pretty tiny and it was packed. I opted to watch since I really don't need any broken extremities and Peter (who like me, doesn't really care for ice skating) took a drive through Greensboro while the other's "skated". And I use that term loosely since it seemed for the most part, they were just trying not to fall! But Cathy and Eric were good sports about it and I *think* they enjoyed themselves.
Later that night, we all settled around the television and watched Shutter Island. We all really enjoyed it.
The next morning, Sarah had a dentist appointment. When she got back from that we headed to The Porch for a late lunch and then we went bowling. It's been a while since I bowled and even though I was horrible at it, it was still a lot of fun.
On our way home, we swung by the Shell Service Station. There were 8 of these built in the Winston-Salem, NC area in 1930 and this is the only one surviving. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is considered "novel architecture" and was built when the new owner of the local Shell distributor decided he needed to bring brand awareness to the area. It actually used to be a working service station. It's so cute!
After dinner we watched Point Break. Everyone really enjoyed it (it was such a blast from the past). Even Peter enjoyed it. He said it started off slow but then picked up and was very enjoyable.
On Wednesday morning, Eric and Cathy headed back to Washington and we attempted to get things in order. I was behind on laundry, there were lots of gifts that needed to be put in their proper place, the floors needed to be swept, we needed some groceries, the whole nine yards. Later that night we had a fire in the fire pit and then watched Knives Out. It was an excellent movie!On the night of the 23rd, we watched Snatch which was also enjoyable.
I'm so out of the loop but apparently there's an app called Letterboxd, It's a social app where you can record all the movies you've seen and share your opinion on them. Peter uses it and came up with these movies because they were recommended by his friends. (With the exception of Point Break. Eric had read that it was about to leave Netflix so we wanted to see it before it was too late.)
Peter had plans on New Year's Eve, so he headed back to Raleigh and we enjoyed our traditional New Year's Eve meal with Jennifer and her family at Tokyo Japanese Steak House.
Our dinner reservation was at 8:15. We were home by 9:45 and I was in bed by 11:00. I know some will think that's lame but I'm an old lady who needs her sleep.
Peter came home the next day and we watched the Panthers blow their last chance to make it to the playoffs. On Monday, we took down all the Christmas decorations and ran some errands and not much else. Then on Tuesday, Dan was back to work and Sarah spent the day with Joe and Peter hung out here around the house. Then yesterday, he headed back to school but I snapped this cute picture of him with mom right before he left:
And Sarah headed to Oak Ridge to hang out with the Basement and she's currently still there which is affording me time to catch up on blogging, paying bills, laundry, etc.
And that my friends is what we've been up to since Christmas day! Happy New Year!
3 comments:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, my friend! I enjoyed reading your posts and sharing the holiday with you and your beautiful family. Love your traditions and how close your family is. It all comes and goes so quickly!
Yikes on the Biltmore tickets. We toured it several years ago - in the summer. I can only imagine how pretty it is in the winter. You found good things to fill your time though.
I really like that picture of Peter and your Mom.
So if you buy a ticket to see the Biltmore house, do you get to take home some furniture for that price? ;)
The civil rights museum sounds very interesting; (and heartbreaking too)I'm old enough to remember he Woolworths lunch counter!
I forgot all about Point Break; it was a great movie.
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