This is my last post from our Thanksgiving Trip of 2011... (No applause please!!!! ha ha)... If you are new to my blog (and I have had several new folks since 2012 began), and IF you want to see any of those other posts, you can click
HERE. There are 10 posts total --including this one. OR---if you want information on the Skyland Resort where we stayed, you can click
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It took us three days to get to Skyland Resort that week, since we stopped so much and did many more things along the way. BUT--we finally got there. As usual for us, we had alot of rain while there that week. We did get out and take some pictures --but most all of our pictures this year were taken during the rainy, foggy conditions...
Hope you enjoy our pictures from Skyland. This is a neat resort with a great restaurant (we had our turkey dinner there)---so we highly recommend it to you. Be sure and enlarge the pictures for larger views.
This is a picture of us in our room. I must admit that I was miserable when that picture was taken, with an incredibly painful stiff neck.. (It went away when I got home and got some muscle relaxant pills from my doctor.) As you probably know, I had had hernia surgery in October and was still recooping from that. I assume this trip --as much as I enjoyed it--was a little too much for me so soon. BUT--it was great and we did have a good time.
Here is our room (building) from the outside. We were on the top floor to the right of the room with the light on... We had a wonderful balcony in the back with a view of the Shenandoah Valley below. VERY nice!!!!!
Anytime we got out to take pictures, this is what we saw!!!! The fog was thick and stayed with us during our stay there. The good news about the weather was that it gave us a chance to stay in the room, relax and read a good book!!!!! Life was GOOD.
Here's one more fog picture that George took.... We both love taking pictures of trees ---so this one is neat, surrounded by the fog...
Because of the fog, we didn't have much of a view of the Shenandoah Valley this time, but as the fog lifted and clearer skies took over one night, George went out on the balcony and took a picture of the lights in the valley below. Pretty, don't you think?
I love this photo of the sky ---when we left Skyland and headed home. If we could have stayed another few days, we may have had some sunny skies there. But--it was time to go home! Isn't that a great picture of the SKY that morning???
Finally, when we got home to our beautiful Cumberland Plateau, this is what we saw right before we drove into our driveway... I think that sunset was welcoming us home. Pretty, isn't it????
Hope you enjoyed our pictures. It was truly a fabulous trip ---and if you haven't traveled on the Blue Ridge Parkway or Skyline Drive, please do it!!!!! It's AWESOME.
Have a great day.
Hugs,
Betsy
