mini vacation

I decided I needed to get out of my little hermit hole and went to the Smokey mountains/Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge with 7 other people.

So the trip is supposed to take about 5-6 hours. We left Cincinnati at 3pm, expecting to get to our cabin around 8pm. Lucky for us, a semi-truck flipped on 75 South right as we were going into the boonies of Kentucky. We sat in bumper to bumper traffic for 1 hour, and then had to get off the highway and take a 1 lane road that wound through rural Kentucky...slower than a snail could ooze its way along. The procession of cars was probably the most activity the town had seen since it was founded. We passed four or five houses where the residents pulled out lawn chairs and watched the parade of cars inching by.

After two hours of country music (no other radio stations), we finally reached the open highway heading to Tennessee. We rolled off the Gatlinburg exit around 11pm, excited that we finally made it and anxious to get to our cabin.

Then our car broke down.

And we had to push it 3/4 of a mile to a gas station, with a cop who looked like he stepped right off of Super Troopers.

We finally made it to our cabin at 1am. An epic adventure..but it was so so worth it.
http://yourcabin.com/717ARoomWithAView.aspx
isn't it a beauty?


Anyhow, good weekend. Long ass week of work (overtime every day!).

I wonder when it'll hit...