somewhat waste of real estate
Please forgive me for not updating Friday as I had expected. After arriving home from school, I was quickly whisked away for the weekend; I was expecting some layover time to update, but that didn’t happen. Anyway, so about my weekend:
First, let it be known that school just totally is kicking my tail. Work is coming at me from every angle and I’m spending the largest portion of my weeknights ever with homework. College sounds so close.
Ok, the weekend. We left Friday heading for some place near Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Warning: Pigeon Forge is the biggest tourist trap ever created to steal away your money and time. Stores such as these line the streets with lights blinking and cash registers cha-ching-ing: Hole-In-One Driving Range; Discount Drugs (I know what they mean, but some reason I just thought it was funny); Sexy Stuff (their sign was as bold as fonts get); Alf’s (advertising "Good Food, Cold Beer"); and finally, my favorite, The World Famous Chef Jock’s Tastebuds Cafe. The town is entirely made up of novelty and nostalgia, aka not-my-type-of-town. Avoid it at all costs.
So anyways, we make it to the cabins where we reunite with some of our relatives that we don’t see often because they are on the other side of my grandparents family (I believe it was like my grandmother’s family who live around the Tennessee area compared to my grandfather’s family who all live in Mary-Land). Anyways, so that was nice and more people kept arriving. The cabins in this area are all just beautiful (not to mention the view) and the location is nice. Each cabin is precariously (I don’t care if it’s spelled correctly, as long as you understand what I mean) positioned on this mountain and the trip to get to them is crazy-wild. The hills reach angles easily of 60+ degrees. Insane. Most vehicles don’t make it up, so many people got their 4×4’s out for the trip.
That night was quick because most people got there around 10:30ish. I spent the late night talking philosophy with some of my distant counsins. Very cool people.
The next morning started off with a great breakfast. The rest of the day, for me, was spent doing homework, playing pool, eating, and watching the Tech-Syracuse game. I never finished my homework, got horrible blisters from playing so much pool, ate too much junkfood, and didn’t respond well to Tech’s horrible defense (it’s not like I care about sports, but when it comes to college football and a team that I will probably be supporting in college, well, I can make an exception). Saturday was good. Saturday night was spent playing Catch Phrase with the same cousins, again, more goodtimes. Then we talked about stupid stuff and random things about our past. Someone noticed a creature on the floor and said it was a "scorpion." Well, she ended up being correct. We quickly disposed of the little intruder and continued out conversations.
Sunday morning was nice. Quick breakfast and good-byes and we were on our way. After an (in my opinion) unfortunate stop at one of the local tourist traps (The Incredible Christmas Store, or more likely to referred, by me, to as "the biggest ungodly waste of real estate") we headed on our way back to the L-Burg area.
And then I ran over to THP just in time and got back home only to be greeted with things to unpack, homework to finish, and a site to update because I didn’t have the time on Friday. And I’m really tired. Goodnight Stars.