Weekend in the mountains

We're back from a nice 3 day weekend in North Carolina. Jason did really well, considering he spent a great deal of time in his carseat. Steve made a CD of over an hour of pink noise ("white noise, only deeper," Steve says), that saved us more than a few times in the car. Jason could be screaming at the top of his lungs one second; we put the white noise on, and poof! he's in a trance the next and asleep a few minutes later.

Once we unloaded the car at the house on Friday, we got back in the car and drove an hour to Asheville. We enjoyed doing some window shopping (especially since many stores closed early due to the holiday), got some tasty frozen custard, bought as much beer as would fit in the bottom of the stroller, and finally ate a fantastic dinner at Tupelo Honey Cafe. Other than having to nurse Jason in the car twice (we didn't bring any bottles and I can't find nearly enough comfortable places to nurse in public - my newest rant these days), we all really enjoyed ourselves. We made it back to the house around 9, just in time to watch fireworks. They weren't as impressive as I thought they'd be, since they were further away than I thought they'd be.

Saturday was a really relaxing day. We went into town for lunch and met up with Steve's parents later that afternoon. We went out to dinner at the largest Chinese buffet EVER and then went back to the house where we hung out on the deck and watched a gorgeous sunset.

It rained really hard overnight, but cleared by 10am. We went into town for Brunch at Hobnob, cleaned up the house and left around 3:30. We went home a longer, but more scenic way and stopped at Carolina's Smokehouse (the best bbq ever!) for an early dinner. We were still full from brunch, but the bbq is that good!

Jason hit his limit after dinner and no amount of pink noise or ssshhhing would calm him for very long the last hour of the drive home. I don't blame him since we all were ready to be out of the car, and we had been able to walk around and stretch. When we got home, Jason got a nice long bath to relax in (he was cooing and smiling by the end of it) and he fell asleep while nursing.

So, we survived our first trip away with baby and were able to relax too. Phew!