I have decided it is time to inform you of our not so wonderful 1st year anniversary trip. Yes we have been married for one year and we had this brilliant plan to go camping, rafting, and hiking. Our Anniversary was April 28, but we couldn't make our trip until May 11 because I had to finish out the Spring semester at school. We changed our plans multiple times as to where we were going to go. First we were going to Williamsburg, VA and camp out in North Carolina on the way. But then we came to our senses and decided we didn't want to spend 16 hours driving. We thought about going on a cruise, but decided spending our precious time with so many annoying people would spoil our fun. So we decided to go to Helen, GA this little dot of a town in North Georgia, we went there on recommendations from my cousin who went there on her Honeymoon and said what a great time it was. Well I don't know what she was doing on her Honeymoon, but I definitely did not see the fun in Helen.
First of all it is a Little German town were all the buildings look like an Alpine town with a couple of German restaurants (which were outrageously expensive I might add). The town looked really run down and most of the shops were closed while we were there. I thought it would be something like Gatlinburg, TN, with all the shops and restaurants in a row, but it was totally boring. But that wasn't the worst of it when we got there we found the campground and set up our tent. Then we decided to peruse the town, not much going on it was a Sunday and kinda chilly and of course we had to pay for parking in this stupid rinky dink town even to eat. We stopped and ate at this pizza place, we ate out on the patio by the water, and I must say it was pretty good for pizza a slice was as big as my head, as much as we tried we could not finish the whole thing. Anyway all the sudden the sky gets really dark and very windy, so we are freezing our butts off trying to eat (we are in shorts). All we can keep thinking is dang I hope it doesn't storm because we are staying in a tent. Then the waitress comes over and says be careful its going to get really bad tonight, might even be tornadoes. AGGHH!! Tornadoes you say! What do we do now do we risk it or get a hotel or leave. Well guess what! That's right we stayed! In the TENT!
I must say in hind sight that was a crazy thing to do. We get back to the site and take our showers no we did not really rough it on this trip, we had hot running water and flushing toilets and yes even mirrors. So as we are showering the wind is howling like crazy, trees are blowing and cracking, because you do know we are in the middle of the woods right. After showering we get back to the tent and it is still blowing like crazy we leave the sides open so that maybe we could see if a tree was coming at us. Well then darkness came and we could no longer see out, but man could we hear it. The wind was so loud and strong it sounded like waves crashing on the ocean. Anyway we didn't sleep a wink the ceiling of the tent keep folding in on us and we just knew all those tree branch crackings were going to fall on our head. I think we fell asleep around 5am for a couple of hours obviously surviving the night and freezing cold I might add, the temp dropped dramatically it was like 50 degrees in MAY!! in GEORGIA!!
At that time we decided to go hiking and went to the trail head. We where on the trail for about 2 hours and when we came back Lo and Behold our dang car had been smashed.
And wouldn't you know it no one was around and of course the douche bags did not leave a note. So now our already sucky vacation just got worse. The back end looked like someone had backed into, it broke my spoiler and crunched the trunk. Even though I wanted to go home and get it taken care of Ryan talked me into "letting it NOT ruin our already crappy trip" ha ha fat chance. Anyway we carried on, we did more hiking and had to go back to the rinky dink town to eat so we ate at a Wendy's no less. We had planned on rafting on the Chattoga the next morning, but they weren't running any trips, so we decided to drive to Cherokee NC and raft the Nantahala. It was about an hour away, but I must say we had a really good time, the water was so freaken cold though, we had wetsuits, wet boots, and water spray jackets on but still froze our butts off.
Anyway after that we shopped around and eventually made it back to our campsite on complete BACK ROADS.......... thanks stupid GPS, well at least we got there... 2 1/2 hours later. We had to eat at the Wendy's again because the other restaurants were closed during the week or just didn't look good. So much for it being the start of their peak season. Why didn't we cook out you say? Because it was still windy and there was a fire ban. I almost forgot to tell you about the annoying campers we had next to us when we got back from dinner. We had had the first 2 nights all to ourselves then a huge RV came with like 10 kids that kept running around screaming like crazy. Anyway we decided to cut our trip a day short and went home. This of course was no suprise to my family, because it seems I always cut my trips short. What can I say I miss my dogs and my own bed. We had planned on going to Destin that weekend, but wouldn't you know it, it forecasted rain so we didn't go and rain it did. Anyway on the way home we stopped at Callaway Gardens outside of Atlanta, that was pretty nice, we will probably take Haley there sometime this summer. They also have a drive through Safari park that I want to take her to.
So I had to take my car to the body shop when we got home and explain to the insurance, that no we didn't get a police report because the Jerks didn't stick around to be reported they smacked us and left. Jerks!!! Anyway so the deductible had to come out of our pocket and the body shop had my car for 3 weeks I just got it back. And I think I have finally recovered from the vacation from Hell!! I guess in all reality it could have been worse............
First of all it is a Little German town were all the buildings look like an Alpine town with a couple of German restaurants (which were outrageously expensive I might add). The town looked really run down and most of the shops were closed while we were there. I thought it would be something like Gatlinburg, TN, with all the shops and restaurants in a row, but it was totally boring. But that wasn't the worst of it when we got there we found the campground and set up our tent. Then we decided to peruse the town, not much going on it was a Sunday and kinda chilly and of course we had to pay for parking in this stupid rinky dink town even to eat. We stopped and ate at this pizza place, we ate out on the patio by the water, and I must say it was pretty good for pizza a slice was as big as my head, as much as we tried we could not finish the whole thing. Anyway all the sudden the sky gets really dark and very windy, so we are freezing our butts off trying to eat (we are in shorts). All we can keep thinking is dang I hope it doesn't storm because we are staying in a tent. Then the waitress comes over and says be careful its going to get really bad tonight, might even be tornadoes. AGGHH!! Tornadoes you say! What do we do now do we risk it or get a hotel or leave. Well guess what! That's right we stayed! In the TENT!
I must say in hind sight that was a crazy thing to do. We get back to the site and take our showers no we did not really rough it on this trip, we had hot running water and flushing toilets and yes even mirrors. So as we are showering the wind is howling like crazy, trees are blowing and cracking, because you do know we are in the middle of the woods right. After showering we get back to the tent and it is still blowing like crazy we leave the sides open so that maybe we could see if a tree was coming at us. Well then darkness came and we could no longer see out, but man could we hear it. The wind was so loud and strong it sounded like waves crashing on the ocean. Anyway we didn't sleep a wink the ceiling of the tent keep folding in on us and we just knew all those tree branch crackings were going to fall on our head. I think we fell asleep around 5am for a couple of hours obviously surviving the night and freezing cold I might add, the temp dropped dramatically it was like 50 degrees in MAY!! in GEORGIA!!
At that time we decided to go hiking and went to the trail head. We where on the trail for about 2 hours and when we came back Lo and Behold our dang car had been smashed.
And wouldn't you know it no one was around and of course the douche bags did not leave a note. So now our already sucky vacation just got worse. The back end looked like someone had backed into, it broke my spoiler and crunched the trunk. Even though I wanted to go home and get it taken care of Ryan talked me into "letting it NOT ruin our already crappy trip" ha ha fat chance. Anyway we carried on, we did more hiking and had to go back to the rinky dink town to eat so we ate at a Wendy's no less. We had planned on rafting on the Chattoga the next morning, but they weren't running any trips, so we decided to drive to Cherokee NC and raft the Nantahala. It was about an hour away, but I must say we had a really good time, the water was so freaken cold though, we had wetsuits, wet boots, and water spray jackets on but still froze our butts off.
Anyway after that we shopped around and eventually made it back to our campsite on complete BACK ROADS.......... thanks stupid GPS, well at least we got there... 2 1/2 hours later. We had to eat at the Wendy's again because the other restaurants were closed during the week or just didn't look good. So much for it being the start of their peak season. Why didn't we cook out you say? Because it was still windy and there was a fire ban. I almost forgot to tell you about the annoying campers we had next to us when we got back from dinner. We had had the first 2 nights all to ourselves then a huge RV came with like 10 kids that kept running around screaming like crazy. Anyway we decided to cut our trip a day short and went home. This of course was no suprise to my family, because it seems I always cut my trips short. What can I say I miss my dogs and my own bed. We had planned on going to Destin that weekend, but wouldn't you know it, it forecasted rain so we didn't go and rain it did. Anyway on the way home we stopped at Callaway Gardens outside of Atlanta, that was pretty nice, we will probably take Haley there sometime this summer. They also have a drive through Safari park that I want to take her to.
So I had to take my car to the body shop when we got home and explain to the insurance, that no we didn't get a police report because the Jerks didn't stick around to be reported they smacked us and left. Jerks!!! Anyway so the deductible had to come out of our pocket and the body shop had my car for 3 weeks I just got it back. And I think I have finally recovered from the vacation from Hell!! I guess in all reality it could have been worse............
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