Friday, April 5, 2013


Weekend Getaway to Oriental; North Carolina

This weekend getaway is perfect for two who want to find the same passion that was there when they met. Will start on a Friday night and go until Sunday night. Housing will be an inn in the country setting with beautiful wildflowers surrounding the entire area.  With 8 bedrooms available you want to book quickly before the rooms are filled up! Months open: First weekend of April- Last weekend in September.

Friday night:

*    Dinner in the hall beginning at 5:30

Saturday:

*    Morning - breakfast at 9

*    Afternoon- packed picnic lunch to go walk the beach or wherever you please in the at 12:30/1:00.

*    Dinner -6:30 in dining hall

Sunday morning:

*    Breakfast again at 9.

 During this weekend getaway you will feel just like Amanda and Dawson did when finding their love for each other within a few days.

        In The Best of Me Nicholas Sparks describes the intense and passionate meeting that Amanda and Dawson have again that reunites their love in a matter of a weekend. Life has gotten in the way for them and they put their feelings aside.  After they separated in their teenage years their lives both took different paths that happen to be far apart from each other. Both have gone through hardships and stick through just going through the routines of a normal day. After about 20 years or more they meet in Oriental, South Carolina again for their friend’s funeral. The time spent together within a few days makes the distance that has been between them disappear.  Back in their home town, their friend; Tuck has set up certain events that he knew would bring them together.  They reminisce on the times they had together and are in a way transported back to that time. When it was just them against the world in their small town home. As Tuck said, “There's a lot of magic between you too.”  When they are in Tuck’s wife house the house is magical to them. The setting, the environment, everything about the place makes it obvious that this house was for the two and in the getaway weekend package; visitors would feel the same way. They would experience the beautiful flowers that lie in front of the house, “But their eyes were drawn inevitably to the wildflowers. Thousands of them, a meadow of fireworks stretching nearly to the steps of the cottage, a sea of red and orange and purple and blue and yellow nearly waist deep, rippling in the gentle breeze,” and put themselves in these characters shoes were their love for each other was better than anything they could imagine. “It was just us.”

           

                                               
(http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/15677976-the-best-of-me )

4 comments:

  1. >I like the itenerary and photos you included

    >good job of discussing the book and how the experiences there shaped your idea

    >I'm not sure I see part 3 from the rubric? (why your idea will work)

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  2. I like this idea of the weekend getaway. I haven't read the book but I feel like it would be interesting and a good experience to go to this after I have read the book.

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  3. I have read this book and I think this getaway is a really cute idea, I would go if I could!

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  4. I love your idea and I think it's really cute, I love how you made it sounds so appealing.

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