My vacation adventures, or Sam versus the Mountain
Our adventures actually start back on Monday the 16th. We're scheduled to leave for vacation on the 20th. Nick wakes up with a 102 degree fever. Great. But by afternoon, he seems to be feeling better. All is well.
Tuesday the 17th - Kids are fine, but I start feeling like crap. I leave during lunch at work.
Wednesday the 18th- I'm still sick and attempt to go to work. I get sent home. I'm throwing up and have a fever. Crap.
Thursday the 19th - Still sick. Stayed home from work. That night Lukas starts acting sick.
Friday the 20th - Lukas let me get about three hours sleep. Stayed home from work again. I keep him all medicined up and he seems to be better. Hubbie and I decide to make the trip. We leave Brandon about 6:30 pm, headed for the mountains of North Carolina. All is well at first, but the natives start getting restless and get sick of the car seats. At about 12:30, we get off and find a hotel for the night.
Saturday the 21st - After a decent nights sleep, we all wake up feeling a little bit better. I'm still sick myself at this point. I'm congested with a slight fever and cough. We arrive at our destination at about 6-ish. We get to the road my grandfather lives on and notice that it goes up. As in up a mountain. My mother told me that my grandfather had a trailer. So I'm thinking like mobile home trailer. Nope. Trailer as in travel trailer. I'm staying for a week with hubbie, the kids, my mother and my gradfather in a camper on the side of a mountain. Fan-fucking-tastic. Nothing else interesting happens that night.
Sunday the 22nd - We go into town to have lunch with some family friends. It was cool. The rest of the day we spent driving around looking at stuff and looking for wildlife. Fun at first, but by about Hour 3 I was ready to be done.
Monday the 23rd - We get up and go into Tennessee today. My mom loves this place called Cades Cove. Its an old settlement that's also a wildlife preserve. It's cool, but I swear my mom freaks out for the deer. We drove 10 mph through this place looking for deer and bear. Didn't matter that we had seen deer and bear on the way there and about 7 times while we were there. Also, by this point, my mother is really pissing me off. So I'm being a bitch to everyone to avoid conflict with my mother. I explain to hubbie and he understands and we decide the next day we're going off on our own so I don't kill my mom. The highlight of the day was Nick repeatedly calling Elk cows after Mom's efforts to correct him. It was hilarious.
Tuesday the 24th - We get up, just hubbie the kids and me, and go over to Gatlinburg TN. Its a cute little tourist trap town. We hang out for while and hubbie realizes that he's close to this road he wants to go down. It's called "The Tail of the Dragon". Its 318 curves in 11 miles. I puked. When we get back to my grandpa's place we get the best news we've had all week. My mother and grandfather are leaving tomorrow. Thank the gods.
Wednesday the 25th - Hubbie and I are going to Asheville which has some cool stuff to do. We go to the boyhood home of Thomas Wolfe and we go to this cool museum of minerals and rocks. I saw a geode half as tall as me. We then went to the NC Arboreteum which was peaceful and nice. On our way back my mother calls in the brief minute we have cell service. There's a big storm coming tomorrow. So we check the weather on hubbie's phone (because we don't get service at grandpa's place and we have no TV either). Sure enough, there's a big thunderstorm with hail coming tomorrow. Fuck this, we're leaving tomorrow.
Thursday the 26th - Trip home nothing really eventful. We get home about 11:30 last night.
Friday - So here I am. Home but still sick. Pictures may follow soon. We had to borrow a camera because I'm pretty sure my sister's boyfriend stole mine.
Tuesday the 17th - Kids are fine, but I start feeling like crap. I leave during lunch at work.
Wednesday the 18th- I'm still sick and attempt to go to work. I get sent home. I'm throwing up and have a fever. Crap.
Thursday the 19th - Still sick. Stayed home from work. That night Lukas starts acting sick.
Friday the 20th - Lukas let me get about three hours sleep. Stayed home from work again. I keep him all medicined up and he seems to be better. Hubbie and I decide to make the trip. We leave Brandon about 6:30 pm, headed for the mountains of North Carolina. All is well at first, but the natives start getting restless and get sick of the car seats. At about 12:30, we get off and find a hotel for the night.
Saturday the 21st - After a decent nights sleep, we all wake up feeling a little bit better. I'm still sick myself at this point. I'm congested with a slight fever and cough. We arrive at our destination at about 6-ish. We get to the road my grandfather lives on and notice that it goes up. As in up a mountain. My mother told me that my grandfather had a trailer. So I'm thinking like mobile home trailer. Nope. Trailer as in travel trailer. I'm staying for a week with hubbie, the kids, my mother and my gradfather in a camper on the side of a mountain. Fan-fucking-tastic. Nothing else interesting happens that night.
Sunday the 22nd - We go into town to have lunch with some family friends. It was cool. The rest of the day we spent driving around looking at stuff and looking for wildlife. Fun at first, but by about Hour 3 I was ready to be done.
Monday the 23rd - We get up and go into Tennessee today. My mom loves this place called Cades Cove. Its an old settlement that's also a wildlife preserve. It's cool, but I swear my mom freaks out for the deer. We drove 10 mph through this place looking for deer and bear. Didn't matter that we had seen deer and bear on the way there and about 7 times while we were there. Also, by this point, my mother is really pissing me off. So I'm being a bitch to everyone to avoid conflict with my mother. I explain to hubbie and he understands and we decide the next day we're going off on our own so I don't kill my mom. The highlight of the day was Nick repeatedly calling Elk cows after Mom's efforts to correct him. It was hilarious.
Tuesday the 24th - We get up, just hubbie the kids and me, and go over to Gatlinburg TN. Its a cute little tourist trap town. We hang out for while and hubbie realizes that he's close to this road he wants to go down. It's called "The Tail of the Dragon". Its 318 curves in 11 miles. I puked. When we get back to my grandpa's place we get the best news we've had all week. My mother and grandfather are leaving tomorrow. Thank the gods.
Wednesday the 25th - Hubbie and I are going to Asheville which has some cool stuff to do. We go to the boyhood home of Thomas Wolfe and we go to this cool museum of minerals and rocks. I saw a geode half as tall as me. We then went to the NC Arboreteum which was peaceful and nice. On our way back my mother calls in the brief minute we have cell service. There's a big storm coming tomorrow. So we check the weather on hubbie's phone (because we don't get service at grandpa's place and we have no TV either). Sure enough, there's a big thunderstorm with hail coming tomorrow. Fuck this, we're leaving tomorrow.
Thursday the 26th - Trip home nothing really eventful. We get home about 11:30 last night.
Friday - So here I am. Home but still sick. Pictures may follow soon. We had to borrow a camera because I'm pretty sure my sister's boyfriend stole mine.