SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23RD, 2011.....

Gorgeously beautiful FALL DAY here in Mt. Airy, North Carolina!  We started our day off by attending the Mt. Airy Ward about a 2 minute drive from our Hampton Inn Hotel on 601.  If the stop lights had all been GREEN we could have probably made it in about 1 minute!

We attended Sacrament Meeting only (which started at 9:30 a.m.) so we could work our way to Francisco to the GOINS FAMILY REUNION!  I wanted to go by the church cemetery on 89 on the way.  Just because......I am standing at the graves of my great-grandparents John H Jones and Susan E. Dean who were the first to join the church in 1872!  Almost 140 years ago!!!  That is quite the milestone I think.  This is my mother's grandparents.

 It was on to Franklin for the Goins Reunion......Wayne and I, with Polly McNeill's help, got the GOINS FAMILY CHART put up and the cousins started flocking around to find their names and check out their information.

 Wayne set his computer up and gathered more family information.  These cousins just LOVE this stuff!!!

 I even got to show off some of our pictures from Finland on my iPad!  They loved seeing the pictures.

 Polly McNeill is on my right and we were talking to a couple of other cousins.  Polly is the only other member of the church in the Goins line at this point.  She is just a cutie-pie!!

 After the reunion we drove down to PILOT MOUNTAIN.  Wayne couldn't remember driving to the top so we decided to do that since we still had some daylight.

 At one of the overlooks I got a good shot of the PEAK in the background.

 Wayne climbed on up to the top of the lower ridge so he could get a better picture.  I didn't climb there because I had gone there before and knew it was a bit of a hike up.  I was still in my Sunday clothes with my Sunday shoes on.....not a good combination for that hike!

 We decided we wanted to walk down MAIN STREET in Mt. Airy.....just to walk and look in the shop windows.  There were other folks out doing the same thing.  A great night for a walk.  Last weekend was AUTUMN LEAVES FESTIVAL and a lot of decorations were still up and the place was looking very festive!  AAAHHHH.....love this great town.

 They have a great POSTER this year too.......

 Looking north on Main Street.

 As it was getting dark and a little chilly, we headed back to the hotel.....love these flowers lining the walkway into the entrance.

Tomorrow......a little FATBACK, GROUND STEAK & SLAW, SAUSAGE AND LIVERPUDDIN shopping as we head back home!  It has been a great weekend!