Visiting Raleigh and My DD2

I am *finally* home from my trip.
(I'll just save that story for another day)
 It was great to visit with my daughter and also great to be home again!
 I have a million photos
 (most I won't bore you with, they will be on flickr if you want to see them). 
I am going to go in order of the things we did so I can hope to keep it all straight.

I arrived Tuesday night and that was uneventful. 
We re-packed and got ready for our drive into the mountains and the Nantahala river rafting trip. 
The drive was a little over 4 hours from Raleigh to the Nantahala Outdoor Center
(thank you Jeannette).
 We stopped at an outlet mall before continuing on to our destination. 
I managed to snap this pic of her in a gorgeous dress, even though we didn't buy this one,
 she looked so beautiful in it I couldn't resist a picture!

As we left the outlet mall it began to rain.
 Not storm, just dreary, steady rain.
It looked something like this for the entire drive.

We finally reached the Nantahala Inn.  We had to park below and climb up this

to get to our room. The front porch was so cool! 

 Our room was quite comfortable 

 We settled in and then drove back down the mountain to the River's End for some dinner. 

 We sat out on the back porch and watched the river flow by while we ate.

  

We had to get fortified for out big river trip on Thursday morning! 

That's all for now kiddos. 

 Rafting trip will be tomorrow so stay tuned!! 

 ~XOP~