The Biltmore House at Christmas

In Savannah's enrichment class she just finished reading the book The Mystery of the Biltmore House by Carole Marsh.  They spent a lot of time doing activities based on this book and Savannah frequently complained that it was "boring".  So, we decided to try to bring it to life a bit by taking a family trip to the Biltmore House.  Dave had extra vacation time and we thought it would be less crowded to go during the week so yesterday we all headed to Asheville, NC to tour the Biltmore.  I have to say that I was a bit worried about Preston being a handful midway through the house, but he never complained and was certainly a trooper despite the massive crowds and cool winds.

 

The last time Dave and I were there was our babymoon when I was pregnant with Savannah.  Neither of us had been at Christmas so it was fun to see it all decorated . . . but I do have to say that it wasn't all I imagined it would be.  We did a quick drive through the gardens and stopped at the winery.  Unfortunately we would have had to wait over 2 hours to get the back scenes tour of the winery so we opted not to wait for that.  As a side note, they had tons of samples stations set up (which made both of our kiddos excited) and if you ask Preston his favorite part he'll tell you it was the "kretzel samples and shuttle buses."