We all slept in until the 8'ish hour and one of our party pushed 9 before strolling down the stairs. Nancy and I were up much earlier as we were able to get in an abbreviated quiet time before the others emerged from the cool upstairs. The little gas heater has done a remarkable job in keeping us all rather warm and cozy but all the cooking and body heat from us has helped as well. I'm not sure if it could handle a dead of winter job of the only source of heat but so far I think this is the coldest it has had to perform.
We had a large breakfast around 10 Am of sausage, eggs, toast and grits before we got ready to do the touristy thing in downtown Sparta. Kathryn and Patrick is making their first trip to our area and its fun to show it off. We took 2 separate cars but were connected by our walkie talkie radios which we all get a laugh out of our transmissions. We first stopped and visited the Mountain Dreams Realty on our way into town after taking them the scenic route . The views were awesome with the leaf change and of course the white stuff made for great pictures in the higher elevations.
After a nice visit with Paula as she really knows this area and is quite a card as well we headed to the coffee/ bakery at Becca's Backwood Bean. We all had lattes and whatever sitting around in her cozy ambiance place. Afterwards we walked through the towns many shoppes and we all made some purchases to help the economy. We laughed and cut up the entire time. After leaving downtown Sparta we made a grocery store stop before heading out to the Blue Ridge Gallery where our old friends Joe and Melia show off their artist talents. He is quite the jewelry maker and she is a seamstress. We purchased a couple knit hats and some area photographs before taking a different scenic route home. It was going on 4 o'clock before we got back to the warm cozy cabin. Since we had skipped lunch we decided to do an early supper and Kathryn wanted to prepare a special meal for us. The chicken scaloppini was out of this world with fresh mushrooms, capers and all sorts of delicious tastes over a bed of bow tie pasta, Yeow was that ever good. We munched on cheese and crackers with a little fruit of the vine while enjoying the aromas from the stove. It was a sumptuous meal and after the cleanup we got right into a competitive game of Sequence with the gals vs guys. Well once more the gals were on fire and we only managed 2 wins out of 7 games.
Since it was still rather early we decided to play Oh -ell. Well this was a new game to both Patrick and Kathryn and Patrick had us in stitches with his attempt to learn the game which we think is rather simple to learn. We laughed so hard we thought we were going to burst our sides after such a filling meal, especially when Patrick does his Indian dialect which is right-on. I think I will introduce him to our friends up here as a visitor from that country, he is hilarious. Well the guys managed to barely scrape out a victory in that game with me having the best score(of course I was the scorekeeper). I was even challenged once by the opposing sex of my abilities to accurately conduct that transaction. I always say "figures don't lie; but liars figure". I was vindicated by showing my work(math class paid off).
Oh well we had a loud and raucous time and it was then time for a hot shower and then into the warm snugly flannel sheets around midnight, LATER 
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