Memorial Day

Yesterday for Memorial Day we decided to go to Dan Nichols Park for the day. It is a great park, with many activities. So we packed a picnic lunch and headed towards the park. But as we got closer to the interstate we noticed the traffic. It was awful. I don't know if everyone was making a day of it or it were the race fans making their way home. Regardless, we decided not to join the mob. John decided he knew a back way... well you can guess where this is going... yes, we got lost. Well not so much lost as just way off track. Somehow we ended up at a State Park, Morrow Mtn. State Park, just outside of Albemarle, NC. We thought, what the heck, maybe it is just where we are meant to be. So we unloaded and found a place to eat. It was a beautiful park. Gorgeous day on the mountain. After lunch we decided to take a hike on one of the trails. It was quite steep and slippery, lots of rock. I wasn't exactly prepared for hiking, wearing my flip flops, and more than one occasion thought I might slip down the mountain. But it was fun. John, being the crazy Daddy he is, made everyone laugh by pretending we were indians hiking through (they were the original settlers on the mountain). There weren't as many things to do at this park as the other one, but we still had fun, just hanging out together.
Afterwards, one the way home we stopped off for some icecream!!! Yum.
It was a good day.