The view from the backyard.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Take That, Tourist Trap
Here's the library. I got this off the internet so no credit to me, but no $50 book to the Vanderbilt coffers either. Anyway, the chess set there belonged to Napoleon. (Edit: Looking at the picture the chess set is hard to make out. It's in the foreground, in a plexiglass case on that tan wood table.)
Stairway To Haveland
Particularly liked the parallelogram windows of the stairwell. On the inside my favorite was the library (I know, shocker there. Too bad I can't show it to you, oh wait I can.)
Big Ole House
The biggest house in America. They strictly enforce a no pictures inside the house policy (the better to make you buy things my dear), so you won't be getting any. I guess just google Biltmore and you can see some if you're that curious. FYI, that line out front is only a small sample of the mass of humanity that was milling around the place.
Vanderbuilt
Today was spent at the Biltmore, the home built by the Vanderbilt family. It sits on a mere 8,000 acres, and besides the house has two small "villages" (read shopping areas) and a hotel. There's also a nice Starbucks right before you go on property so everyone was happy. You can spend a whole day here, and we did. But special travel tip, it's worth seeing but don't go around Christmas. As impressive as the house is, the Christmas specific decorations aren't that great and the crowds were crazy to the point of frustrating. Here's the front lawn.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Can't Sleep, Clown Will Eat Me
Our room at the Cedar Crest. That bed is amazingly comfortable but you have to climb a ladder to get up on it.
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