Visiting Biltmore and dropping off a hitchhiker!

Well I know you can't believe I picked up a hitchhiker... let me explain. Thanks to our good friend Libby we have started going on adventures called Letterboxing. It is really a lot of fun and the whole family enjoys it. You go to their website and type in where you want to go for your adventure, like Asheville. Up pops a whole list of places in Asheville where people have placed letterboxes. There is a list of clues you have to follow and at the end there is a container of some sort with a notepad and a rubber stamp. On these adventures you take a note pad, a rubber stamp, an ink pad and a pen. You then stamp their book with your stamp and your book with theirs. One of the things the kids thought was cool was that you have to pick a name. We are the Red, White & Blue Dragons! And we have a really neat Dragon stamp. Love the name as we are a chinese-american family! Well now onto the hitchhiker, sometimes in the letterbox you will find a small package with another stamp and small notepad. This is a hitchhiker, he has no home and just travels from place to place. You then decide if you want to take it or not. Well of course, being our first hitchhiker find, we took it and are going today on a new adventure and will leave our hitchhiker there. The kids don't know that we are going yet, as I love surprises. We are also going to America's Favorite Castle... Biltmore. We need to see the new rooms they have opened up before our season pass expires. I have decided that we need to do at least a couple of fun things each week as Summer is quickly fading! Well on the emotional front, realized why I was rambling on yesterday. "It" is here now. Since I am entering "the wacky world of menopause", I never know when "it" will appear. Kind of explains why I was biting David's head off night before last, for no reason. Poor sweet David, I do feel for him. But if any of you are in "the wacky world" or have ever been around someone who is being forced to live in "the wacky world", you know horrendous mood swings live there and rarely can they be avoided. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to anything in "the wacky world". I do pray my time there is short! Well off to have some adventures with my kiddos...