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NC luxury: A mountain cabin
By Carrie | March 20, 2008
Well, Oak really went all out on our two-year anniversary with a surprise trip to the mountains! Best of all, he booked us an entire cabin for the weekend! Here’s a picture of the outside and inside:
We arrived pretty late on Friday night - we made the drive after work. The cabin was in Hot Springs, which is actually almost another hour north of Asheville, so we had a little bit of a haul. The tiring drive did not defeat Chef Oak ™ from making us a lovely dinner when we arrived - the patio had a convenient gas grill!
The meal included two of our current obsessions: an olive medley appetizer (Oak’s obsession) and snow peas (not really a new obsession for me, but I do love them!). Yum! Pictured also is Oak in his (cotton - the traditional gift for 2 years) anniversary gift, a personalized Williams-Sonoma apron!
The next morning, we thought we might do some hiking, or visiting the hot springs until we looked out the window and saw it was snowing. So, (oh darn!) we went in our hot tub instead.
Let me tell you, it was hard to get out into the freezing air! At least it was a short walk to the indoors! Later that afternoon we decided to venture into downtown Hot Springs, which, is a happening place ( sense my sarcasm.. I think LeRoy is probably more happening!). But, we had a nice lunch at a the Smoky Mountain Diner in the downtown, and did some browsing at the local Dollar General and the Bluff Mountain outfitters shop. For dinner, we went to the local upscale joint, the Mountain Magnolia. Sadly they were out of the ravioli dish that Oak wanted originally, so he ordered the burger instead.. check out the huge stack of pickles!
Luckily, he was a good husband and shared some pickles with me. Apparently the “bacon flap” coming out of the burger was also quite legendary. I had a stuffed pork loin dish which was also yummy.
“Do we have to go home??”
The next morning, we went to Asheville for a meal at one of our new favorite haunts for Asheville, the Moose Cafe. We hit up some of our other local favorites (including a new beer store that Oak just discovered) before heading home.
All in all, it was the most relaxing and perfect way to spend an anniversary weekend. Oak got big bonus points for this one! 
Topics: blog, travel, weekend |
March 21st, 2008 at 6:35 am
che romantico! What a great (surprise!!) anniversary present!! I have to say I’m totally jealous. (not having had any marriage anniversaries yet, apparently Luca hasn’t been inspired to organize surprise trips. Or maybe it’s a result of my last surprise trip to Zurich which was a bit of a disaster…nonetheless, I would like someone to arrange surprise romantic weekends for me!) The cabin looks cute–a hot tub even! Happy Anniversary.
March 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I have to say Im impressed
love to both of umom
May 28th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
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