prepared to remove a lot of rusty screws, and ate a lot of good food. Also went to the North Carolina Arboretum. We were expecting to be bored but were challenged by the diversity we encountered there. In the picture above you can see Queen AnnaBananna in royal lavender on the left, and the OleGoate is in the center wearing his old faithful yellow slicker that has kept him dry since grade school. Mother Karima still tries to bless his scientist's soul. Here she is preaching to him out of the pink shirt on the right
Later we went to Franklin's Spring Creek Creamery. They have the best ice cream in all of history. Three of us had butter pecan in plastic containers, I had a chocolate chip mint cone. We all drooled all the way back home. Thought we had seen a version of heaven - then the next morning we opened the cheese and dripped and drooled all over again. Better than the ice cream!! The owner of the creamery says this is because they make all of their own cheese and ice cream from their own cows, and all their cows are Jersies. The owner says Jersey milk is much creamier than that which comes form the Holsteins which are the most used milk cows in the US. For more information: http://inthesmokymountains.com/springridgecreamery/ and http://www.ltlt.org/fp042605.html
The visit was a great family affair. We ate extremely well and awfully often and told a lot of good stories. The girls worked a lot of puzzles and we guys told a lot of jokes. Here you can see the OleGoate talking with Brer Mujib. They told some real knee-slappers about girls.
