One of my favorite recent Christmas memories is of a trip to The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC to see the gingerbread houses made for the Food Network Gingerbread Contest. The sheer splendor of The Grove Park is amazing enough but when you throw in an ounce of celebrity and enough gingerbread to feed all of Santa's elves ... you've got yourself an unrivaled holiday spectacular!!! And let me tell you ... it did not disappoint!!! We had an unforgettably wonderful time!!!
Getting there was a bit of a trick though ... Miss
Belinda had to sneak a "sick" day, the girls had to play hookie from school, the big boys skipped out on Mamaw, Sharon (Fairy Godmother of Charm & Beauty) & Trey stayed with the babies ... and we took off for the NC mountains.
Kayla, being a Food Network super-junkie was so, so excited to be going to the Gingerbread Contest ... she was almost trembling!
It all started with caroling and hot chocolate with the Grove Park Bear.
It all started with caroling and hot chocolate with the Grove Park Bear.
(Check out that cool purple suede purse ... NICE!!! Boy ... did I used to have style ??? and if so ??? what happened to it???)
We sang all the classics and everyone got a souvenir booklet of the songs to color and hang on the tree at home (we still have one!)
We toured around the grand hotel and stopped to check out the amazing view of Asheville ... the mountains are simply spectacular, but obviously, Stephen and Megan were the only ones impressed by the view!!!We checked out the unbelievable gingerbread houses and even got to stop into the Food Network studio to watch some gingerbread houses being built. This was totally cool ... we couldn't believe we were right there while they were taping ... we didn't stay for the whole thing (some of us were a little "restless"), but we got to see a lot of it & it was so, so unforgettable!
This was one of the most super-fun things we've ever done and the memories (and thank goodness the pictures) will be with us for many, many years.
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