Thursday Josh and I took a half day and started our 8.5 hour drive to Spruce Pine, NC for Brittany and Lee's wedding. Since we didn't have Bailey with us, we decided to stop to actually sit down for a dinner. Josh wanted to find a brewery on the way if we could. He ended up finding a place in Blacksburg. It ended up being a really good time to stop. It was close to the halfway point and we were both ready for a break.
We drove through Virginia Tech's campus since it was only a couple of minutes out of the way. I didn't really get any good pictures, but it's a pretty campus.
My chauffeur :-)
Bull & Bones is the name of the place Josh found. We both really liked it!
They have 6 brews plus a seasonal. The seasonal brew was lemongrass ginger and it was delicious!
They had burgers and BBQ with hand cut chips. Neither of us was very hungry and we couldn't choose what to eat, so we ordered a burger topped with BBQ and onion rings on it. It was AMAZING!
We ended up getting into town pretty late, but luckily the owner of the lodge we were staying was really awesome and agreed to stay late so we could check in. He was even nice enough to show us to our rooms (which is a really good thing, because we would have never found it ourselves). The main office was a couple minutes and down the mountain from where our room was, and if you don't know your way around, it's probably impossible to find in the dark...and in the rain. A lot of the wedding party was staying at the lodge. There were several rooms and a common area. We decided to hang out for a while once we got in. Lee was staying here, but we didn't know anybody else that was still up when we were there. Everyone was really nice though! We ended up hanging out for a while.
These are the cabins that were in front of our room. Somehow, I completely forgot to take a picture of our room!
Brittany was able to get most things taken care of before we got to town, so Josh and I decided to sight see a little Friday morning/afternoon. We had to run a couple errands, then we drove around the parkway. The view was absolutely amazing.
A Christmas tree farm! They were all over the place.
Love of my life <3
Friday evening we had rehearsal then dinner. The dinner was at the lodge we were staying at. I didn't take any pictures, but the place was beautiful and the food was amazing. The lodge also has a winery and brewery, so the wine and beer that was served was all made on site. It was so good!
At the rehearsal dinner.
I'll write about the wedding in another post, or else this would be a novel.
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