We Are One With Nature

For our vacation this year, we are one with nature. Yep, it’s just nature and the Holloways. It’s almost like we’re camping, except with a 4 bedroom condo with air conditioning and an oven. To cook pizza in. That’s about as close to camping as I get (as I’m drinking my second glass of chilled wine).

We are in Cashiers, NC in the mountains. Way up in the mountains. We were supposed to go to the beach, but we basically got screwed at the last minute on the condo we were planning to stay at. Thankfully (so thankfully), Braden’s parents have a vacation condo in Cashiers, NC so we were able to make a “Plan B” vacation that will still be lots of fun.

We drove here today and it went pretty well. We actually didn’t stop at all for the first 4 hours (until we were only about 45 minutes away). No potty breaks for Ethan during that time which was AMAZING. So we made pretty good time. We got here and it was raining (only briefly) and we had a mix up with the keys, but once we got everything settled, we were able to unpack and relax. NOT. One thing that’s for sure is that this vacation will not be a relaxing vacation. Wouldn’t have been at the beach either. We have a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a zero year old for goodness sake. There is no relaxing until at least 9 at night and we need to make sure we have things to do at every waking hour or the kids will go crazy with the 3 toys we brought for them. Fortunately there is plenty to do.

For today, once Ethan finished napping, we had just about an hour or so to do something. We decided to hike down to the lake and the beach area. It’s a nice hike down there (only about 10 or 15 minutes). The kids were ready in their swim suits (we were not), so they had fun splashing around in the lake for a while to burn off some energy. Tomorrow we’ll be prepared with our suits too.