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All fun and games until someone gets wet<\/p>\n
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That would be now – but still smiling!<\/p>\n
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Do they look happy or WHAT?<\/p>\n
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We had a fantastic weekend, taking a 4 hour drive over to our favorite town in NC (and beyond), Asheville.\u00a0 We started with a tour of UNC-Asheville, currently Reiley’s top university choice – for lots of good reasons, including a brand new science building, small 20-student class sizes that are more focused on discussion than lectures, a great price, and a well-rounded liberal arts focus.\u00a0 And lots of perks, like an on-campus branch of Rosetta’s Kitchen, free bus rides to Asheville, and quidditch.\u00a0 After the tour we headed to our old favorite Laughing Seed for a meal that included vegan dishes from around the world.\u00a0 There was a drum circle that night, the whole center of the town was filled with dozens of drummers keeping the night jumping.\u00a0 Then off to Urban Outfitters for some late-night shopping with all the hipsters.\u00a0 The next day we were up at the crack of dawn to layer on clothing for our whitewater rafting trip, even though it was 45 degrees outside.\u00a0 The name of the site was Blue Heron Whitewater<\/a> – I definitely recommend them.\u00a0 We got to the site with plenty of time to gear up more, with really nice equipment including wetsuits and gloves and neoprene socks, and lots of help from the great staff.\u00a0 And a nice hot cup of coffee, mmmm…\u00a0 We got a couple hours of whitewater rafting under our belt and had a delicious hummus sandwich lunch sitting on hot rocks.\u00a0 Then a few more rapids and we headed back to the site to shower, dry off and warm up.\u00a0 Back to downtown for more great adventures, including shopping, coffee…\u00a0 and Wrenny climbing three stories high on the rock wall across from Laughing Seed!\u00a0 Everyone on the street was watching and clapped for her at the end, nice one Wrenny!\u00a0 We headed to Plant, a totally vegan restaurant, for dinner.\u00a0 It’s just north of the town center, towards UNCA.\u00a0 We were 5 minutes early and the place was deserted, so we drove to a nearby park.\u00a0 It was small so we just headed back to the restaurant, went in, and even though the doors had only been open for 5 or 10 minutes, the place was packed – and fully booked!\u00a0 Buuuuummer!\u00a0 So we headed back downtown to Rosetta’s Kitchen.\u00a0 Best recovery ever – it’s a self serve restaurant with the most amazing vegan friendly options served up in huge portions.\u00a0 We had Pad Thai and BBQ sandwiches and miso soup and etc and it was delicious.\u00a0 A new favorite!\u00a0 And we drove back that night, for quite a jam-packed couple of days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a fantastic weekend, taking a 4 hour drive over to our favorite town in NC (and beyond), Asheville.\u00a0 We started with a tour of UNC-Asheville, currently Reiley’s top university choice – for lots of good reasons, including a brand new science building, small 20-student class sizes that are more focused on discussion than … Continue reading Most excellent Asheville weekend of whitewater rafting, rock climbing and divine eating<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2,6,76],"tags":[80,82,85,83,81,86,62,84],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-daily-life","category-gaming","category-travel","tag-blue-heron-whitewater","tag-laughing-seed","tag-restaurants","tag-rock-climbing","tag-rosettas-kitchen","tag-unca","tag-vegan","tag-whitewater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1721.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-qy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":936,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/north-carolina-adventure-race-series-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":1646,"position":0},"title":"North Carolina Adventure Race Series, #4","author":"m","date":"October 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Adventure racing is the greatest invention ever. 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