Adventures in Asheville

juan and belita woods, goddess of vocalists...

Wow. Such happy times.

An Easter weekend that brought so much fun.healing.and much needed connection with my mates and sweet man.

Friday after work we started with a picnic in the park…and went to bed early so that Saturday we could get up and hike to see three magical waterfalls. Tiny purple butterflies followed us as we hiked up the trails and took our time sitting on the rocks, just enjoying the nature. The only sad part was dropping my camera in the water (doom!) so I have no pictures of our lovely day..

Next we went to see The Spiderwick Chronicles… oh my! All fairy lovers should run to see this before it leaves the theater. Such beauty and inspiration! It’s so nice to go with a boy who not only indulges me in seeing films like this, but loves the fantasy of them just as much as I do.

The night brought more fun and going to see some funk music with Belita Woods and members of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band. Not only did she sing with them, she joined us for a gathering at our friend’s house out in Boone. She sings this one song, Overemotional, and to hear her talk of what lead her to write it was so fun. Her husband had told her she was so overemotional about him picking up his clothes off the floor. She was like, “damn straight I am overemotional, you don’t give it to me like you used to!” The least you can do is get your damn sock up off my floor. It was great.

Sunday morning our sweet mates went to Green Life with us and we bought yummy food for our Easter picnic. Waldorf chicken salad, asparagus, jalapeno cornbread, spinach risotto, fruit salad with vanilla and peach schnapps, mimosas..yum!!!

As we sat outside on the blanket eating in the front yard, all of the dishes looking so pretty on Gabe's pottery , I felt myself being taken back to my center. The beauty of everyone around me all weekend, how they shine in their imperfectness was just so amazing.