Mountain Lake and Thai House

Last Saturday we drove about 25 minutes to Mountain Lake, where Dirty Dancing was filmed. We were looking forward to hiking around the property a bit with li'l innocent Chispita since there's a huge publicly accessible nature area there. Unfortunately, we had to turn back.

So for all you people in internet land trying to find the answer: it's no, pets are not allowed at Mountain Lake, but you wouldn't know that by checking the property's website. You'd think that something that is prominently posted all over the grounds and leads the staff to ask you to leave ought to be on the website. We let them know this fact.

Oh and internet-land people, the lake is pretty low this year, as you can see in the picture. They don't mention that on the website either.


On another note... I like Thai food. And I thought there was only one Thai place around. A place called Cafe de Bangkok had just opened up in Blacksburg last fall. I thought it was okay, but something didn't taste right to Jessica (I mean, kika).

Well, a friend told me there are two Thai food places in the greater Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford area (well, at least two that we know about). The other one is Thai House Restaurant, near Radford, and based on what we had last night for dinner, we think it's better. It was spicy!

So even though Cafe de Bangkok has a slick website, don't be fooled! The Thai House is very good, even if it's not as crowded. Bring your friends and help keep `em in business!