Boone

We went to Boone yesterday. There wasn't any snow and it was fairly warm (I feel bad for the ski resorts, two warm winters in a year...). Didn't do much other than shop so I didn't take any pictures to share.

When we got to Boone, we immediately parked and walked down King St. We went in a few shops just because we'd never been in them before and we were also looking for a fitted hat for Matthew's big noggin. I was also looking for a book,Whispers From The Woods: The Lore & Magic of Trees, but my favorite store ever didn't have it. Normally, we eat at Macado's but neither of us were hungry so we drove down through Blowing Rock and puttered around until about 4:00PM.

As we walked down the street, I noticed a guy sitting on a bench with his dog at his feet. The dog was ignoring everyone that walked by until I got close to him and he focused on me. As I got right in front of him, he got up and walked towards me so that I could pet him. I thought that was so weird. Matthew said that I had probably committed to rubbing him in my head and he saw that from my body language. I hadn't really planned to pet him because people can be funny about you petting their dogs but I had planned to talk to him. So, maybe Matthew was somewhat right.

We finally decided we were hungry and didn't think we had a chance to find a parking spot on King St. again, so we drove around looking for a place to eat. We drove by Bandana's and we'd not tried them before, so we decided on that. The atmosphere inside was nice. It was clean and had a lot of waitstaff. The food came quickly and was very good. Matthew ordered a barbecue sandwich platter ($5.99 for a pork and chicken sandwich with fries and slaw) and I ordered their barbecue sampler. The sampler was $15.99 and came with five different types of barbecue (smoked turkey, smoked chicken, baby back ribs, st. louis ribs and pulled pork), two sides (I got fries and cole slaw) and texas toast. I was surprised at how huge the sampler plater was for that price. Matthew helped me eat it and we still brought half home with us! They also offered three different types of barbecue sauce on the table, traditional, spicy and tangy mustard. They were all excellent. I'd highly recommend this restaurant to anyone going to Boone and definitely want to go back.

After we got out of Bandana's, it was about 5:00PM and nearly time for us to go. I wanted to go into the store Ancient Wisdom to see if they had my book. I realize that most things in Boone start closing down at 5, so I was expecting them to be closed. But, as we got to it, we saw the open signs were all lit. So, we parked, went in (nodded at the lady that worked there who was behind the coffee counter as we walked in) and went straight to their books. There were two other customers in this part of the shop, one lady was really concentrating on whatever she was looking at and another (posh-looking) lady was just standing around waiting). I was about 3/4 way through the books when the lady that worked there came and told Matthew and I and the lady who'd been concentrating to leave because she was closing. She turned to the posh-looking lady and told her to stay. Something about that irritated me and Matthew, as well. The other lady that was asked to leave looked like she'd been slapped. I've shopped at this store before and spent quite a lot of money on jewelry. I daresay I won't be going back.

After that, we were both annoyed, so we just went home.