Fall Foliage

This past weekend, Delana and I went with my parents to southern WV to um, well look at trees, what else? Cause you know there just aren't enough trees to view here in rural Ohio. No seriously, if you've never been to this area it really is quite beautiful. We've been there many times but never in the fall. WOW!

We left about noon on Friday and took our time going on a bunch of winding back roads and through several towns - my dad loves this kind of stuff and really this trip was "his" since he obliged on so many camping trips this summer that were for us or the kids to see stuff. We finally came to the town where we were going to stay for the night, Lewisburg, and we were all pretty much starving. We debated where to go but my dad wanted to go one more exit and man am I glad we did because we found a really nice "mom and pop" kind of place called Granny's Kitchen (or something) and man was it GOOD and CHEAP. I had pulled pork and it was seriously to do for. After a fantastic dinner and a wonderful dessert of oreo cream pie, we headed to the hotel for the night.

Saturday we got to do a little sleeping in (this is easy with Mr. Rooster aka Tyler not around) and had a late breakfast and then it was into the van for another drive. Again, my dad is famous for this. We had no idea where we were headed next or anything. We wound up driving around for a little while just taking in some sights and then back to the town of Lewisburg for a little shopping in their art district. Then it was back into the van for another drive and a short hike to see a waterfall. Delana got a big kick out of going for a walk and an even bigger kick out of the water. She is obsessed with water actually - even when we cross the Ohio River (which we do quite often) she gets all giddy. Before we knew it, it was almost dark and time to find another hotel. This time we stayed in Summersville, WV and we were all pretty tired from the busy day and wound up going to bed pretty early.

Sunday it was time to head back home but not before another drive down another winding road or two. We found ourselves in Fayetteville - which is where the New River Gorge Bridge is and like I said if you haven't been there you NEED to go at least once. It's beautiful and it's amazing!
(See for yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_Gorge_Bridge)

And man it was even more beautiful and amazing in the fall. Delana was just in complete awe of the big bridge, the water (and how close we could get to it) and the pretty leaves. We took the old road that was in existence before the New River Gorge Bridge was put in and marveled at how difficult and long that had to be back in the day when now you can be across the gorge in oh, 5 minutes. We also went to a lookout area we had never been to before and I am so glad we found it. It was a really nice little spot and Delana and I had a blast picking up leaves. She even insisted on picking a red one out just for Tyler: "Red is Tyler's favorite color mommy. He likes red!" Then we pretended like the lookout area was her "castle" and she promptly declared "I'm a princess!" Yep that's right you are.

The only thing that was a complete bummer about the entire weekend was that I forgot my camera battery so I have no pics of our fantastic weekend. But hey, I've got it all written down now.