Flashback! Lake Lure/Winery Weekend

Flashback: Since I've only been blogging for a little bit - I'll randomly do flashbacks of fun things that have happened in the past...just for the heck of it!

About a month ago, Alan & I went to Lake Lure for Saturday & Sunday - mainly for a wedding for a friend of his on Saturday afternoon. Just for the fun of it, we made a weekend out of it and decided to visit a couple of the NC wineries close to Lake Lure and tour around. Unfortunately - it rained and was real overcast - but as usual - we made the best of it anyway! Here are several pics from the weekend...

The first winery we went to was Rockhouse Vineyards in Tryon. Very cute little vineyard - and the wine was quite nice. The "rock house" has the tasting room in it - and was built by a German couple over 10 years. It has gorgeous rock indigineous to the NC mountains. Beautiful!

As an added bonus - the vineyard was hosting a wedding that afternoon/evening. Unfortunately, I think the probably got rained on a little bit - but I couldn't resist snapping a few pics. First where the ceremony was - overlooking the vineyards. Then the tent for the party afterwards. I loved the tissue paper pomanders hanging from the top of the tent. They also had tons of white lights strung throughout the tent. I had serious wedding envy!

The wedding was really nice on Saturday evening. We followed it up with a nice dinner overlooking Lake Lure. On Sunday morning, we got a nice breakfast and drove around waiting for it to clear up a bit. We stopped in Chimney Rock and walked around the river a little. Since it had been raining so much -the water was quite high!

We stopped back by the Lake and walked around a bit between the showers. You can see the clouds...they were crazy!

Alan made fun of my fashion statement. I was going for the Grecian over the shoulder sweater tie. It's the new thing...trust me!

That afternoon we stopped at Green Creek Winery in Columbus, NC. It was also nice - a little more high tech - but equally good wines. Here's a few pics from it...

Serously - HOW ABOUT THOSE CLOUDS!?!?!

Overall - it was a wonderful weekend. We definitely will be going back to the wineries - and hopefully the weather will be a little more cooperative next time!