driving down south

so every year we drive down south to South Carolina to visit my grandmother and go to the beach :)

so first we drove along skyline drive in Virginia which was absolutely beautiful 

and through all these beautiful forests

and the view from the top was pretty crazy...yet only 3,000 feet, not much compared to the 7,000 feet of boulder, co haha but still amazing

and there was this little bee :)

then we came into New Market, VA, where we stay every year which is like the smallest, quietest town on earth

and there was almost nothing open except this antique store

which had some really nice things inside, including these glass bottles that I was obsessed with

and of course there's the southern kitchen, which we usually eat at every year but this time..

we tried this bbq place, and I got the baby back ribs gahh sooo good. Ok I don't know if you can read the description but it says 'marinated for hours and slow cooked for more than 8 hours' like really, is that even legal?

and this is them :)

...they were really good

then we drove by this old battlefield from the Civil War

and the mimosa flowers were in bloom and they smelled sooo good

and as usual we drove through this old old graveyard, one of the first places I ever drove, even before I got my license 

and then we came back to the bed and breakfast and played scrabble on the porch 

the next day we stopped by 'foamhenge' probably the weirdest and best places ever haha

and there's this wizard just chillin there

yep, it's actually a to scale replica of the famous stone henge

...made out of foam hahaha

and I just can't quite decide how I feel about it haha 

then we drove through buchanan virginia where this swinging bridge is

which actually swings back and forth and is pretty scary haha

and we tried to go to this old fashioned sandwich store but it was closed on Mondays soo

we went to this restaurant called the north star, which some local recommended which ended up not being that good, especially when they served us bbq sandwiches with like a whole bag of bbq chips on the side...uh why?

and then it rained so badly that we had to pull off the road

and then again haha