Last days of our trip

Here are a few more shots taken in North Carolina while visiting eldest child Cor. We only spent a short few days in the groovy little city of Asheville, where he lives. We ate lots of good food and walked around downtown quite a bit, lots of interesting shops to check out, it is an artsy little town. He took us down Chicken Alley (love the name) which had all sorts of cool grafitti and painting on every available surface, including a giant picture of Yoda, unfortunately we had left the camera in the car so no pics of that! These pics are taken while walking next to Swannanoa River, after a lovely brunch in Black Mountain. It was an interesting experience to go and visit my grown up child who doesn't really need me anymore. It is quite a transition for me. There are so many little things that you notice and have to make adjustments. Many things I think are important just don't matter to him. He's his own man. When you teach you children to think for themselves it is a suprise when they go ahead and do this and it doesn't agree with what you think!