Wow... today started a bit early. After staying up half the night making sure we had everything packed, we left at 8am. I knew I had better be ready because my mom and dad were going with us. lol. And, like clockwork, they were at the house at 7:50am! I have discovered with my parents they will come between 30 minutes to 10 minutes ahead of a time so I may need to adjust my time schedule with them.
We loaded everyone in the car, locked up the house and headed toward Gatlinburg, TN. We got less than 5 miles down the road and stopped to get breakfast at Jack's. We ordered drive thru and in less than 15 min were headed toward TN.
Our travel went really smoothly. The funny part was that as we were riding the last twenty or so miles of Alabama, Rusty casually mentions he has to go to the restroom. That was funny in itself because it is usually me or one of the kids who requests first to go. But, he had to go. He said he could wait until we got to GA and go to the rest area. So, we weren't concerned. I got my knitting out and began knitting. Jackson was in the car with us and Payton rode with Mawmaw and Pawpaw. I text Payton telling her to tell them we were pulling over at the GA rest area for a bathroom break.
GA approached and there was no rest area. So, Rusty said he could wait until we got to the TN one which wasn't that far ahead. We continued to drive. We drove for another 30 to 45 min. and approached TN. We got there and the rest area was closed. We started chuckling at that point. I asked Rusty if he wanted to stop at a gas station or something and he said he thought he could make it to the next rest area.
Well, another 30 min. down the road and he was started to see yellow. Jackson and I started just cracking up. This was one of the worst time's I've ever seen Rusty have to go to the bathroom. He quickly found an exit that looked decent and we stopped at a McDonald's. It probably didn't help him any that it was raining and all he looked at was the water sloshing around on the windshield! ha! After we stopped, he was good to go and much relieved!
We continued to travel and I continued knitting. We passed a few bad wrecks which had just happened and it occurred to me that we were being protected because we would have just missed the wrecks. Overall, it was a great ride.
We finally got to Sevierville, TN. I was shocked at how crowded the road was. There were cars from everywhere. We drove through and everyone got hungry around the same time. We stopped at Mr Gatti's for lunch but when we got out and got into line, the people standing around us told us it was an hour long wait. So, we said forget this and got back into the car as did about 30 other people behind us. We drove and came across a family style restaurant that mom and dad had wanted to go to when they came up with the senior adult class from church but didn't because it was too packed. We thought it must be good then so we stopped.
The food at this place wasn't terrible but it wasn't the best food in town for sure. We were so disappointed. I almost wish we had stopped at Mcdonald's or somewhere else because they would have been better. It cost Rusty and I $74 to eat at that place and it was the worst $74 we spent the entire trip. But, we paid the bill, got some peach jam and left. We drove up to the rental place to get the keys, etc.
The keys ended up just being an entry code and alarm system code. But, we paid the bill, got the check in/out information and set the Telenav for the cabin. We were all excited by this time.
Wow... the road getting to the cabin was steep.... did i mention it was STEEP? I thought my heart was going to drop a few times. But, we made it. The cabin from the outside was adorable and that didn't change as we went inside. It was so cute. We walked all around checking it out. I knew immediately that the kids were going to enjoy staying there because of the pool table, air hockey and wide screen down in the play room. This was where they were sleeping.
We were going to take the upstairs but the bed on the main level was so high, mom couldn't get up into the bed. So, unfortunately, we had to switch with them. I hated that too because, with mom's knee, they were going to have to walk up and down the stairs. I didn't want them to have to do that. But, there were no other options.
We settled in. Unpacked our clothes, then we realized that we had no closets. This really nice cabin had nowhere to hang up clothes! What a nightmare that was at first. We really couldn't unpack because there were no dressers or things to put clothes into. We were shocked really.
We did what we could then headed to Wal Mart to get groceries for the week and find something to hang clothes on. Dad ended up finding these plastic over the door hooks that we used all week. In our room, there ended up being a small storage armoire...if you could call it that... and we emptied out the extra pillows and blankets and was able to use that. Mom and Dad had to suffer through putting their clothes on the hooks.
All was well that ended well though. We came home, unloaded groceries, and set up house basically. To end the night, the kids and Rusty and I got into our bathing suits and sat in the hot tub for an hour or so. It felt great. It was 39° or so and we were comfortable! Afterwards, we took hot showers, got dressed for bed and ended our first day. Man! What a first day!
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