Our 2nd Thanksgiving Together!

Nick and I were able to find some dirt cheap flights to Raliegh, NC over Thanksgiving so we jumped on the opportunity to go see Nick's family! We told everyone we were coming, except Nick's mom. She had no idea. And of course, Nick and his dad had to make sure we surprised her in a very memorable way. We arrived at 1am, rented a car, and headed to his parents house. We staged a break in and his dad came running down with his gun. Jim had set up fire crackers so when he came down with his gun, Nick set off the fire crackers and they totally sounded like real gun shots. Lets just say that Kim thought she was going to be cleaning up blood in her kitchen and having to stash some bodies in the woods behind the house.

We had such a fun time while we were there! We started off by sleeping in unti 1pm and then headed to a UNC Basketball game (Nick's favorite team). It was only Nick's 2nd time ever going to a game.

Jim can't seem to take a serious picture. Now I know where Nick gets it from.

Yummy Food at Spanky's!

One day, Nick WILL be a TarHeel

We then headed East so that I could see some Beach! I've decided that we need to live by the ocean some day.
The weather was perfect every day! 75 degrees and sunny

Nick and his AWESOME parents! I Just love them!

We walked out to the very point of the beach. This is where the Ocean and the Sound meet.

Nick and his Dad are amazing friends and it was so great for them to be able to spend some time together!

Ah-Mazing sunset...

Took Daisy out for a walk around the Lake by Nick's parent's house.

We woke up at 5am to drive out to Ashville, NC (4 hours away) so we could check out the Biltmore Estate. I fell asleep the second we got on the road.

Proof that North Carolina DOES have Moutains!

The Biltmore Estate! the Largest private residence in the Country. (you may recognize it from Richie Rich) This place was unreal. These pictures don't do it justice.

Overlooking the 8,000 acres of land that it sits on.

View from the side of the house

A lake that was on the property

Driving home from Ashville, we decided to take a detour and stop in Charolette, NC.

Dowtown Charolette was awesome, there were people everywhere and the sky scrapers were to die for. Nick says he wants to live there some day. I don't know if I loved it THAT much.

But I could definitely live in Raliegh!

We missed our doggies while we were gone but they were having a blast at a dog Kennel in Kamas, UT.

Flashback

2 years ago, when Nick and I were dating, we took a short trip to his home town of Raleigh, North Carolina. To this day it was one of my most favorite times with Nick. There is something about the excitement of flying with your sweetheart that just makes you feel all giddy inside. Not to mention the fact that Carolina is AMAZINGLY Beautiful and Nick's parents are wonderful. Whenever I want to go to my "happy place" I think back to that trip and I can't help but smile.

Just arriving to Nick's home

One of the First Krispy Kreme's ever

Downtown Raleigh, eating some Southern BBQ

Free Concert Downtown

Over looking downtown Raleigh

Nick's Brother Ben spotted a Copper Head snake on their street and of course had to go mess with it.

Heading out to the Outer Banks!

Nick's awesome parents Kim and Jim. LOVE THEM!

If you can't tell, it's SUPER windy at the top of the Wright brother Monument

Kim managed to snap a picture RIGHT when a gust of wind came up and caught me by surprise!

Driving down the coast of the Outer Banks. This was in Roadanthe. Anyone seen that movie??

Cape Hatteras Light House

Probably the most very Beautiful Beach I've ever seen. This was at the southern tip of the Outer Banks.

The infamous "Bojangles"

I couldn't believe all the trees in NC!! definitely like nothing I'd ever seen before.

Of course Nick had to take me to his favorite place on EARTH! the University of North Carolina's BasketBall Stadium. No one was there so we snuck down onto the court.

Nick was in Heaven!

Flying home... So Sad to leave but had the time of my life!