On our way from Georgia back to Massachusetts, we stopped to see the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, North Carolina.
George Vanderbilt's 135,000 sq.ft. private home completed in 1895 was impressive to the say the least.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to take interior photos, but the inside was just as impressive as the building's exterior. We were all given audio guides for our tour, and Avonlea Jane loved having her own headset. She listened to the whole tour and was always on top of pressing the next tour number. My favorite rooms were the servants' quarters, and she loved seeing the indoor swimming pool. 
We ate lunch in the transformed stables on the grounds, where Avonlea Jane also got a hobby horse she named Thurston. She decided he needed time to graze.
Amazingly, Will was content for our entire visit and didn't have any issues inside the house. We split up our four-story tour into two chunks with a break for lunch in between, and he was great the whole time.
"No licking your uncle" was a vacation rule Dillon did not expect to have to enforce.
After our day at the Biltmore, we had two more days of driving. We stopped for a few minutes to enjoy the view in Tennessee.
Avonlea Jane enjoying some sidewalk art in Roanoke, Virginia
After thirteen days, thirteen states (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, plus Washington, D.C.), and 2,730 miles, we can say that we had a wonderful Big Sister/Little Brother/Big Sister/Little Brother vacation. 
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