A “No Sightseeing Day”
We spent the week of May 14th on vacation in Virginia and North Carolina. I have been uploading blog posts about our vacation since May 29th. This blog post is about our seventh day of vacation.
We ate breakfast on Saturday, May 20 at Joey’s Pancake House. Bob and I each ordered an omelet, hash brown casserole, and toast. Breakfast was delicious, especially the hash brown casserole. Joey’s is one of our breakfast stops, while in Maggie Valley. According to Joey’s web page the pancake house is closing as of today Tuesday, June 13th.
We returned to A Holiday Motel, after breakfast. We decided to stay close to the hotel, taking it easy in preparation for our long drive home the next day.
We watched ‘Blindspot” on Hulu. We are able to get Hulu via the Amazon Fire TV Stick that we brought with us on vacation.
After watching “Blindspot”, we walked around the hotel grounds, socializing with some of our motorcycling friends. I mistook one of our friends for his brother. Lonnie arrived at A Holiday Motel on Tuesday, the same day as we did. It was uncertain if Lonnie’s brother Carl would attend this year’s SEVROC, as he had just returned home from a cruise. As we were passing by Lonnie’s room, I saw someone at a motorcycle. It looked like someone had just arrived. I quickly took note of whom I thought was Lonnie, standing near the motorcycle. I walked up to whom I thought was Carl, at the motorcycle, and gave him a big hug, saying that I was happy that he made it. Well I hugged Lonnie, not Carl…not that he minded. After hugging Lonnie, the man standing on the opposite side of me, who I thought was Lonnie, said “it’s me. I’m Carl.” It was at that moment I realized I had mistaken Lonnie for Carl. I gave Carl a hug, everyone including me laughing about my blunder.
The annual trek to Seven Silver Seas, commonly referred to as the Purple Store, happened at 11:00 am. I didn’t go this year, not wanting to be tempted to buy something that I don’t need.
While some of the ladies were shopping at the Purple Store, I did some reading. I started reading “The Handmaid’s Tale” before leaving on vacation. I hadn’t picked up the book since. By the way I am STILL reading “The Handmaid’s Tale”. I am enjoying the book; however, I keep finding something to do to take me away from my reading!
In the middle of the afternoon Bob and I walked to Market Square, where we stopped at Rock-N-Robins for ice cream and then did some window shopping.
While window shopping, a promotion for T-shirts caught my eye. We ended up purchasing two Magic T-shirts for each of our granddaughters. Magic T-Shirts have designs that are black and white indoors and burst into color in the sun. They return to black and white without the sun. The design we chose was butterfly wings. We gave the T-Shirts to the girls at their 5th birthday party on May 27th.
We ate dinner at Bogarts Restaurant in Waynesville. It was our first time at this restaurant. Our rib-eye steak sandwiches were very good, as was the sweet potato fries (for me) and onion rings (for Bob). This restaurant (and the ribeye steak sandwiches) were recommended to us by “Skid”, one of our motorcycling friends. Thank you, “Skid”. Dinner was delicious!
The Southeast Vulcan Riders and Owners Club (SEVROC) motorcycle rally wrapped up in the evening with a raffle and 50/50. I will share photographs from the raffle in a later blog post.
We said goodbye to everyone before turning in early for the night. We plan to begin our drive home the next day no later than 7:00 am.
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3 Responses to “A “No Sightseeing Day””
I’m sorry to hear that Joey’s is closing today. We always enjoyed our breakfasts there. I guess we’ll have to find a new ‘go to’ place when we visit Maggie Valley.
Pop’s Eggs & Grits, located next to A Holiday Motel, is a good breakfast place.
Another fun and interesting post Linda. Thanks for the recommend of Eggs and Grits. If we are ever in the area I will remember it. I also like to go to recommends that I have read on the blogs. It made me laugh about you hugging the wrong person. I did something similar when I was on holiday. Gregg was wearing a dark blue shirt one day, and I went up to someone and rubbed their back as you sometimes do to your husband. I swear they looked so similar in stature but Gregg had walked on and when he turned around, there was a very surprised look on this man’s face. Everyone had a good laugh.