with our adoption seminar taking us to asheville last weekend, will’s mom thought it would be good for us to redeem our biltmore house tour tickets on saturday.\u00a0 she called and made the arrangements so we could do some touring saturday morning.\u00a0 we headed out early and were stoked when the weather was amazingly perfect.\u00a0 the sky was bright blue and there was hardly a cloud in the sky.\u00a0 we loved the architecture and the history behind the house.\u00a0 it was great to finally see it in person, and to learn about why it was created and how the vanderbuilt family built their fortune.\u00a0 the only bummer was the fact that they do not allow you to take photos in the house itself (which is understandable), but we took as many as we could outside!<\/p>\n
one of our favorite parts of the tour was the orchid room in the conservatory in the gardens.\u00a0 the flowers in the conservatory were amazing!\u00a0 we can hope to have some amazing plants like this one day!\u00a0 while the 107,000 tulips were not yet blooming, they are definitely going to be amazingly gorgeous in a week or so!<\/p>\n
after the tour of the house and the gardens we headed over to the arbor grill (at the biltmore winery) for lunch out on the patio.\u00a0 sipping on wine and enjoying the amazingly sunny day were a perfectly relaxing end to our tour.\u00a0 we sampled tapas plates for our lunch so we could try as many delicious tastes as possible.\u00a0 we loved every single bite!<\/p>\n
once we were done with our lunch we sampled wines at the winery.\u00a0 some of the wines sampled were very good!\u00a0 we enjoyed the tasting and tried almost 20 wines, although 30 were available to sample.\u00a0 we purchased a couple of bottles to bring home and enjoy with dinner sometime soon.<\/p>\n\n\t\t