Happy Birthday to Tim!!!

Tim has been so funny since Thursday - telling everyone, "It's my birthday!" when actually his birthday was today.  But we left on Thursday to fly to Charlotte to spend a long weekend with our dear friends up here because that's what he wanted to do for his birthday, so every day of this trip is evidently his birthday - lol!  The airport in St. Pete / Clearwater was a bit different in that we couldn't even sit together when we were waiting to board the plane as you can see in the picture.  But we weren't required to wear masks, which was good for me because even though I try (and I did try on the airplane) I immediately start feeling nauseous and have to take the mask off.  The flight was super quick - I think it took only like an hour and 15 minutes!  We had a nice evening with Scott & Laura and 3 of their kids, Jonathan, Leya, and Joseph, and then the adults sat out by their pool with a full moon - check out the picture I took - beautiful!  And then Friday and Saturday (yesterday) was spent helping them around their farm - me helping Laura with stuff around the house and Tim helping Scott with a remodel of a house nearby that they purchased as another AirBnB.  They took us out to this great Italian-Greek restaurant last night - forgot to take a picture of that - but I did get a picture of the 4 of us afterwards as we hung out in their AirBnB apartment next to their house that Tim and I are staying in.  This morning they greeted us with an amazing spinach quiche Laura made for us - yummy!  She stuck some candles in it and we sang Happy Birthday to Tim!  Then we went to their creek and had some time with the Lord and some singing time together, and then we loaded up and drove a little over an hour away to Linville Gorge where we met up with their son, Jason, and his new wife, Rachel,  and hiked around there for the rest of the afternoon. Check out some of the views - amazing!  We ended the day at a restaurant called Famous Louise's Cafe - perfect down home cooking!  We go home tomorrow night, but have thoroughly enjoyed our visit with our friends!