Abingdon, VA

The hubs and I always go somewhere for our wedding anniversary. This year we celebrated our 4th anniversary in Abingdon, VA. It was BEAUTIFUL!!!! We got married on 10-28 and for some reason we pretty much always celebrate the weekend before. Fall is usually really showing off at this point and this year I think was the most beautiful yet! There is a bike trail in Abingdon that is called the VA Creeper Trail and I wanted to go on it sooooo bad!!! It is pretty long but it is supposed to be pretty easy. Well, considering I was 34 weeks preggo at the time I was told no by my doctor. It was actually a pretty sad thing.......I forgot to ask the doctor at my appointment around 30 weeks so I called the nurse to ask her and she said no because I might fall. Well, I had been so looking forward to it that in my crazy hormonal state it was all I could do to not start bawling my eyes out right there on the phone with her. I held it in though and looked at other options and VIOLA! I could ride a trike bike instead. Umm....not so much.....the doctor nixed this idea by saying that with the road being bumpy and the repetitive motion over such a long time could possibly cause placental abrubtion. That's all I needed to hear.....it was a no go. We had fun anyway and we will definitely be going back to ride that trail! We actually stayed in Bristol and I enjoyed the area we stayed in because it was around so much food...not so crazy about the hotel. We stayed at Holiday Inn Bristol Conference Center.....I got a great deal on Priceline, BUT housekeeping never came....they messed up our room service order and never fixed it, they didn't have coffee (how is this even possible), and you could hear a ton of traffic since it was right on the interstate. We drove up to Abingdon (which took like 15 min.) the next day (Sat.) and went Abingdon Winery which has the best wine I have ever tasted (yes, I did the wine tasting even though I'm pregnant). It is so light and it was a great price. The winery was so beautiful!!

I'm not gonna lie.....we totally passed that little sign and had a heck of a time finding this place.

This is the view if you wanted to sit on their little patio and eat...we didn't but it was nice.

We took a tour......and why yes....that whale looking thing is me. LOL!

We ate lunch at Pop Ellis Soda Shoppe & Grill.....I would recommend eating inside because our server kept forgetting about us outside. I didn't really care because we weren't in a hurry and it was beautiful. We found out while we were there that President Obama has eaten there and that was pretty cool even if I'm not his biggest fan. Sadly this is the only photo I thought to take of that place. The food was super yummy and decor inside was pretty interesting.

Then we toured the Fields-Penn House Museum (it's free) and we really loved that house! It had such high ceilings! I also loved all the antique strollers and such along with these rods on the runner on the stairs.

We just kept walking down Main St. and passed the Barter Theater and went down and checked out the entrance/exit to the Creeper Trail.

It was a great trip and we so cannot wait to go back!!! We will probably actually stay in Abingdon next time, but maybe not because of the great food choices around us last time. We'll see. We probably can't make it back next year since I'll be doing student teaching (hopefully) and we are going to be way too broke to be spending money on trips...but maybe in 2 years:)