Mayberry Days

If you didn't know by now that we live in Mayberry, well now you do. When we moved to Mount Airy, NC people told me that I was moving to Mayberry and I just laughed. Well, we did. Seriously. Mount Airy is the birth place to Andy Griffith and the town of Mayberry was loosely based off of Mount Airy. Snappy's Lunch is here, Floyd's barber shop, Wally's Service Station among many other strange tourist attractions. Oh, Opies Candy shop is one of Craig's favorite places to visit. Well, Andy Griffith's house that he grew up in is still here and is owned by a local hotel and is now a bed and breakfast and I am sure is always booked with an Andy Griffith fan. To be honest, before moving here, I really hadn't seen much of the old Andy Griffith TV show, nor really cared about it. I guess that comes with my age. Well, every year for about 4 or 5 days, this town is turned into a Mayberry tourist attraction. Tons of strange people wander in to attend all of the various planned events. My dad had really wanted to attend Mayberry Days this year, but couldn't. I do have to say, that my mom did enjoy the parade. The parade is the only thing we attended of all of the events scheduled. It was drizzling with rain and I was really surprised at how many people came out to watch. Anyways, here are a few pictures of the parade.

There were about 7 of these cars in the parade. There is a local company that does Squad Car Tours and I am sort of embarrassed to say that I have actually gone on it twice. Once when my grandma was visiting and again when my mom and dad came to town. It actually was kind of neat. It toured the city and they had a lot of information. Of course my Grandma and my Dad LOVED it.

This guy was funny with his moon shine still. (is that how you spell that?) Oh, they still make moon shine around here!

My mom and Goober.

Goober says Hey!

Shelton Vineyards

The county that we live in has about 29 vineyards and we thought it would be interesting to do a tour of one. We went to this same vineyard when my brother was in town while I was pregnant with Peyton, but my mom had never been in a winery. I know it might be strange to be non-drinkers in a winery, but we just wanted to see how the process took place. That kind of thing always interests me.

This is a storage area for barrels. They have an adopt a barrel program where you can adopt a barrel and they put your name on the barrel and then give you so many crates of wine a year and when they are done with the barrel you get to take it home. Pretty silly. This room was really neat, but I got really light-headed in here and felt like I might pass out, so I was glad that we didn't stay in here long and that it was the last place on the tour. One of the many joys of pregnancy for me! Oh, my mom is holding our souvenir wine glasses. They had wine tasting throughout the tour, which I am sure they wondered why we weren't drinking any of it.

Here is me and Peyton getting some fresh air.

My mom had to taste one of the grapes. She said it tasted really sweet. Why don't they have grape tasting for all the non-drinkers?