Friends from NC!

 October proved to be a prime month for hosting friends, and we loved every minute of it.

The Burkes, the Linns and Hayley all drove up during their fall break to visit us here and it was a blast! 

 We took a tour of the college... 

...walked around a disc golf course,

..visited Emmetts Orchard,

ate at Strider's restaurant, and enjoyed some music and laughter in the evenings.

It was so wonderful to see some of our favorite people for extended time!

(It was also during their visit that I discovered-- thanks to the fact that 2 of them are nurses and 1 is a doctor -- that I had shingles.  Thankfully it didn't get too bad until after they had left, so that was good timing.)

A couple weeks later some more friends, the Timberlakes, came up for NC, too, but I didn't get any pictures of that visit.  Unfortunately, they chose the 3 coldest days of the entire fall -- it even snowed! -- to be here.... but we still were so happy to see them!