Friday Favorites

Hello and welcome to my Friday Favorites! Today I am linking up with Andrea!

1. A couple of months ago I got these Lego flowers. I got the cherry blossoms and the daffodils which were fun to put together! 

2. I found this fun scratch-off map of the US at Target earlier this summer. I have a much larger scratch-off map my sister got for me but I thought this one was neat!

Unscratched | Full map | Just the states I've visited

3. Back in April we finally visited the BMW factory to go on the tour of the facility. We have lived so close to the factory and have talked about going on the tour the whole time we've lived in South Carolina but it just hadn't worked out to go. They only do a couple of tours a day and they sell out fast so we were glad to finally get some tickets and go!

You could take pictures in the museum but could not take pictures during the tour. We found the tour to be really interesting! They actually take you through the manufacturing facility where they are actually working and manufacturing the cars and it was like nothing we had ever seen before. There were so many robots and machines it was like something out of a futuristic movie!

The warehouse was like 3 or 4 stories high with cars all around and above you on convener belts. It was really interesting learning about car manufacturing, specifically in the Upstate. Definitely recommend if you are ever in Upstate South Carolina!

The price on this one!!!

Can you even imagine driving something this tiny???

4. I recently tried a new chocolate chip muffin recipe and it was pretty good! (I used this recipe.) Although I don't know that I would say it's my favorite recipe. I've tried so many chocolate chip muffin recipes but they never seem quite right. I typically always say homemade is better but for some reason there is just something special about bakery chocolate chip muffins. And I really don't know why, but they're just so good. Do you have a favorite chocolate chip muffin recipe? Or a double chocolate muffin recipe?

5. In case you missed it, this week I shared a Currently post and then on Wednesday I shared about our visit to the Tuckaleechee Caverns in Tennessee!

Hope you have a great weekend! Do you have any fun weekend plans?

Tuckaleechee Caverns

In May of last year, me and my parents made a quick trip to Sevierville, Tennessee. My sister had visited the area the previous summer with her friend and really enjoyed the area; so she gave us a bunch of recommendations on things to do. One of which was visiting Tuckaleechee caverns!

It was a little bit of a drive to get out there, but we stopped at Elvira's Cafe for breakfast, which was another recommendation from my sister. The food was really good! 

Once we arrived at the caverns, we got our tickets and started the tour. I can't remember how long the tour lasted, but we did enjoy it. The caverns were really interesting! There is one part at the end where they turn out all the lights so you can experience total darkness and that was pretty creepy! 

Have you ever visited caves or caverns?

Currently

Well, it's been a while! Again! Between having a miserably hot and humid summer and a lot of travel, blogging went to the bottom of the priority list. I have so much to get caught up on and so many things to post about! So I'm really hoping to get back into posting regularly again. 

Working on - Just getting caught up on a bunch of different projects. I still have some scrapbooking to get caught up on and I'm still working on all of my pictures from from our trip to Europe. Between a lot of travel and family stuff, I feel like I'm so behind in a lot of things right now! So just really working on getting caught up.

Looking forward to - Some cooler weather! The summer was extremely hot and humid here but it's been cooling down the last couple of weeks which has been so nice! Typically the entire month of September is pretty warm, so I'm really glad that the cooler weather has come so much sooner! And I'm looking forward to getting out and going on some hikes now that it's cooler. I have quite a few hikes saved on AllTrails that I want to go on.

Watching - Just watching America's Got Talent right now. Looking forward to all the regular shows coming back on soon!

Back in July I watched the newest season of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix. It was pretty interesting. Although the third episode is a little disturbing/creepy!

Reading - I recently finished reading The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant and thought it was an interesting read. A little predictable in some parts but overall an interesting and unique story.

Buying - I got a new phone recently and so I needed a charger, a phone case, screen protector, ear buds, etc. It's so annoying that they keep changing the USB part thing (it's USB-C now) so you keep having to buy new stuff! 

I've also bought a few new clothes which I'll share soon. 

Trying - I'm going to be trying a new small group at church this week. And while I'm not exactly nervous about it, I am maybe a little unsure about it. Being new and trying to make friends as an adult is so hard! So I kind of just decided that if I don't like it I don't have to go back. 

 

What have you been up to lately?