I took almost 200 pictures today. And I like a lot of them. So y’all are gonna see a lot of Asheville the next few days.

But first…today’s eats.

This is where we had breakfast. Really.

And there’s no better way to start the day than with some Trivial Pursuit. (New Coke!)

My selections from the fruit and pastry table.

This was our view. Sigh.

This is my happy pancake face.

After breakfast, we headed to a neat little market and became even more caffeinated.

Well, hello Iced Latte. Nice to make your acquaintance.

After walking around downtown for hours, we headed to a standard for lunch: Jack of the Wood.

I love it here. Lots of fans. Exposed brick. Cozy.

I had the porter and Nathan had the IPA. Both locally brewed. So nice.

We split 2 appetizers: Parsnip fries with curry ketchup.

And the Ploughman’s Lunch. Bread, raisin chutney, pickled onions and some kind of mustardy-cheese block.

Lots more walking. We had to stop at the Chocolate Fetish. So many options…

But we both settled on chocolate bananas. ‘Cause there’s always money in the banana stand.

We had dinner at what is probably my favorite no-reservations-required restaurant in Asheville: Chorizo.

Nathan had the coffee-roasted pork burrito.

And I had lamb.

I didn’t even come close to finishing mine…

But Nathan scraped his plate clean. He’s showing me where his burrito is sitting in his stomach. When the waitress came and cleared our plates, she looked at his and said, “Good job!” He’s an eating machine!

We ended up at a local ice cream shop because we knew we’d get hungry later…

…and took two scoops of mango balsamic back for the evening.

We just ate it. It was phenomenal.

I promise we did more than eat today! It’ll just be spread out over a few themed posts.