Our 35th Anniversary

My wife and I celebrated our 35th Wedding Anniversary on August 5th, 2008. We went to one of our favorite places, the Pilot Knob Bed & Breakfast Inn at Pilot Mountain, NC. Usually we stay in one of the cabins which are made of the logs from two tobacco barns. This time we chose to stay in the Pilot Knob Inn Suite, which consisted of a large bedroom, a large sitting room with satelite TV and a hot tub, enclosed by four walls and open to the sky. It was a wonderful relaxing time. Full breakfast was served each morning with eggs, bacon or sausage, waffles, toast and jelly, fresh squeezed orange juice and coffee. The Inn Keeper, Jennifer, was very cordial and brought us breakfast to our table.
For our supper on the evening of our anniversary, we dined at the Scuppernong Restaurant which is part of the Old North State Winery in Mt. Airy, NC. The food was delicious and the atmosphere was unique. The restaurant building was formerly a hardware store and was later bought by Belks Department Store. The story is that the front of the store was destroyed by a dynamite blast and the store closed and was not repaired until years later. During the renovations, the skeletal remains of a human arm was found, possibly from the person who set off the dynamite. There was a lot of competition in the hardware business in that day due to the newly opened white granite quarry where dynamite was used to mine the rock. The floors were tongue and groove wooden planks and the ceiling had tin tiles. We would recommend this restaurant for good food and atmosphere.