The Biltmore Bloom 2018

On Saturday last, our intrepid reporter stayed home with two sick-and-feverish little boys while her family--along with friends--visited The Biltmore to enjoy the spring bloom. A staff member thought it was "some kind of school group" and was aghast that the twelve children were of two families with five more kids left at home. 

This post is by guest columnist Mary (9) with photography provided by John (11)

This is the Biltmore house which was built in 1895 by Cornelius Vanderbilt. It is the Incredible mansion with two-hundred fifty rooms including a inside swimming pool, a bowling alley, thirty five bedrooms, forty three bathrooms, and sixty five fireplaces. That's Huge!

The Biltmore house also comes with an amazing view. You can imagine Vanderbilt talking long walks down in the forest with maybe Eliza or Frances Vanderbilt and then coming back to take tea with his family. Wouldn't that be the life! 

This is me (in the middle) Margaret (to the right) and Joseph (to the left)

 

We were walking from our parking to the Biltmore estate but all of us were tired. There was a bench on the side of the road and we all stopped to rest a minute.

                  Share your memories! The Lauers and our friends are in the tree taking pictures.

Here are the Biltmore gardens in full bloom. I would love to spend just hours in the gardens among the flowers.

                                   
                                          What wonderful gardens. they are amazing!

                                               
                                               This is John standing among the plants.

                                          This is Johns masterpiece of a northern red cardinal.

ball faced hornets nest

                        Wow! look at that hornet's nest! talking about Winnie the pooh. 

                                   
 This is one of the statues on the Biltmore house. Can you tell who it is? It is St. Joan of Arc!

                                     This is also one of the statues. This one is St. George

Chicks five hours old

              We went to the Biltmore petting zoo and there was all the baby animals.

                                                                        little kids

 

                                                                  A chicken

                                                                 
                                                              Aren't the kids cute?

               Here are the pigs. And the Chickens seem to have swarmed over from their cage into the next one.