Bless Your Heart

Living out loud in the Carolinas

Category: travel

  • Contrary to popular belief, there is WAY more to do in Vegas beyond gambling, boozing, hookers, & getting whacked by the mob. **Warning- lots of photos after the jump**

  • I’m finally ready and able to tell you all about our Vegas trip! For those who haven’t been, GO!!! So many people say “well I don’t gamble, so what would I do?”. There’s SO MUCH more to do in Vegas besides gambling! Instead of a play by play, day by day, trip report, I decided…

  • We’re home!  We had a fabulous time and all the updates are coming soon.  Right now though I’m dealing with a couple of health issues that popped up in Vegas.  One is  pretty scary (and strange).  A full day of doctor appointments on Wednesday will hopefully take care of this. Thank you all for my…

  • While we were in Valle Crucis Papa took us to visit a friend of his who’d just built a palace house.  OMG it was amazing.  It’s available for rent. It has this amazing wrap around porch that I swear is bigger than my house.  We toured the house then sat out on the porch and…

  • So, what did we do while in the mountains for a week?  We visited the Mast General Store a few times, like we always do.  While driving in and out of the Valle we noticed bunny hutches across from the Mast Farm Inn. So one day we stopped to visit the bunnies. So cute!  They…

  • I’m home from spending most of last week in Valle Crucis.  If you aren’t familiar with Valle Crucis, NC it is pronounced Valley Croosiss and means Valley of the Cross.  I love it so much up there.  It’s my favorite place to be.  Time slows.  I knit in the rocking chair on the front porch…

  • Hope everyone had a wonderful Independence Day!  Today we were in Columbia, SC for Aunt Gaddy’s 100th birthday!  I’m heading up to the mountain house for a few days of family vacation tomorrow. Unfortunately CSP has a big project at work and couldn’t take off to join us. My BIL Marc works for the same…

  • Papa & Gigi went to Arizona for a little anniversary getaway last week. While in Sedona they stayed in a swanky resort where at breakfast one morning they spotted Vince Vaughn! He was apparently in deep conversation. Gigi snuck out to the patio where my Vince was enjoying breakfast with 3 other people. Gigi said…

  • Speaking of birthdays, mine is coming up on August 3rd. We have a credit card that accrues miles with each dollar spent.  Recently I started noticing that some of my miles were disappearing from my balance.  We’ve been using this card for years.  We started it so we could earn enough miles to go to…

  • While we were on the cruise Papa & Pete talked all about Pete & Lisa’s Mexican vacation in 2007.   CSP was there and heard the whole talk.  Well Gigi & I didn’t hear anything about this talk until just recently.  The whole subject came up again because Papa has decided that him and Gigi need…

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