Back to school

Well, Spring Break is officially over... :( I hate when that happens, but I only have 6 more weeks of school left so that gives me something to look forward to. I went to Gatlinburg for Spring Break this year because a. it was so cheap, and b. because I wanted to relax away from Spring Breakers. It was a lot of fun. Let me update on this!

Monday 3/16: We left today to go to Gatlinburg. This morning started off crazy wild. Number one, Justin's phone completely died on him. It was ridiculous. So, we had to stop by WalMart to buy a car charger for my cell phone because I had forgot my car charger and forgot to charge my phone the night before so it was going dead. Well, once we got that under control, we got on the road. Everything was all great until we got to Knoxville. Let me tell you, this is one more reason I hate the University of Tennessee. Their highways are the biggest mess! We had to take like 5 exits because they were working on the interstate and then we just made one gigantic circle, got downtown Knoxville and our GPS had no idea what to do so we were driving in circles. We eventually found the interstate and got back on it. That was stressful enough in itself. So, we make it to Gatlinburg. We get to our hotel and things are great. It's so nice and big and cozy, but it was very.....Christmasey. There were Christmas lights, Christmas trees, and yes...Santa Claus! Santa's were everywhere because apparently there was a Santa Claus convention. It was really weird to see that much Christmas when you are escaping for Spring Break. But anyway, we checked in, laid around for a little bit and went to dinner. We ate at a BBQ place called Corky's. It was so good and very cheap! After that we went back to the hotel to get ready for bed because we were so extremely tired and we lost an hour by going to Gatlinburg so we were ready for bed.

Tuesday 3/17: This day was much better. We woke up early and went to Log Cabin Pancakes. Ahh they are so good. Justin said that they had the best bacon he has ever eaten. It was good. I had 3 HUGE pancakes, eggs, and bacon. It was enough for 2 people. I came nowhere near to finishing it. Justin had biscuits and gravy as always and bacon. After breakfast, we went to the Motor Nature Trail. This is where you can drive through the mountains and look at all kinds of cool things. We ran into tons of old houses, pretty rivers, and lots of animals. I took tons of pictures and maybe I will upload them soon. After that we went straight to Cade's Cove. that was a really long drive but it was awesome. We saw tons of old houses, churches, and deer and wild horses. It was really beautiful. We were like up in the mountains. It was a lot of fun. For lunch we pulled over at this cute little place that sold food. I had a hotdog and Justin had nachos. After that, we continued on our trip through Cade's Cove. After we were through with that we went back to the hotel for a short nap. We then got ready and went to dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. It was a lot of fun. We got to sit outside. I answered all of the questions from the Forrest Gump movie. Everyone was shocked that I knew that many facts from the movie. I can't help it, I have seen it a hundred times and just love it! After that, we walked around for a while and went to this little stand called Mama Bear's snack shop. We shared a funnel cake and it was so good. We then went back to our hotel to call it a night!

Wednesday 3/18: This was our last day in Gatlinburg. We decided to get up and go to breakfast at another pancake place called Flapjacks. I had the Caribbean pancakes which were pancakes filled with bananas, topped with bananas, pineapples, pecans, coconut, and whipped cream and honey. It was really really sweet. I couldn't eat much of it. Justin had Reese cup pancakes. His had pancakes filled with Reese cups and topped with chocolate syrup and melted peanut butter. After that we decided to go to a place called Newfoundland Gap. It was really cool. When you were here you were on the Tennessee/North Caroline state line, you were also over 5000 feet above sea level. That was almost a mile above sea level. There are all kinds of cool things here. Once we were here we decided to go to Cherokee, North Carolina. This place is where all of the Indians reside and it was cool too. We got there and went inside an Indian casino just for the heck of it. Once we left there we just drove around and I noticed that all of the street signs had the english name of the street and then under it there were Indian symbols. It was really neat. After this we drove back to Gatlinburg because it was almost a 2 hour drive. Once we got in, we took a quick nap and then got ready to go out. We went to TGI Fridays. After there, we walked down to the Ripley's Guiness Book of Records Museum. There were so many cool things in there. After that, we went to the Mayfield store and shared another funnel cake. We were both extremely exhausted after all of the hiking we had done on Tuesday and Wednesday so we decided to go back and pack up our things and get ready for bed.

Thursday 3/19: We left Gatlinburg at 8 their time which was 7 our time. I was glad to get out of there and get home. Knoxville once again was a gigantic mess. In fact, it was worse this time. But we finally got out of there and got back on the interstate. We finally made our way back to Jasper, Alabama so I could get my doggy out of the vet and get back to Tuscaloosa. We made it back to Tuscaloosa just fine. I was so sleepy, I took a really long nap. I had a bag of popcorn for supper tonight because we were tired of eating out and bascially just tired. Needless to say, I went to bed super early.

Friday 3/20: Woke up really early because I wanted to clean. I cleaned my room and even steam cleaned my carpet. It's awesome. After that, Justin and I went to lunch at Popeye's then I had to go to the library to meet Melanie so we could work on some assignments. I then came home and hung out with Justin and Trixie for a while. We watched Criminal Minds since we missed it on Wednesday. After that, I went to bed early again.

Saturday 3/21: Today was a good day. I tried to sleep late and didn't really succeed too well. Got up, got ready and we went out. We went to Arby's for lunch then we decided to go look at these apartments that we were interested in living in. Yea, great deal. 500 a month, 2 bedroom and 2 bath. Brand new, great location. We get there and it's nothing but a bunch of ghettos. Apparently these were like projects or something. We got out of there really quick and scratched that one off the list. Oh well. Went home for a little bit. Took a small nap to catch up on some lost sleep. We then got up and went to Iguana Grill for dinner. It was really good as always. Then we went home. I was out like a light and Justin was up til 2.

Sunday 3/22: Today was the grocery day. We got up and went to lunch at Zaxby's. It was really good today. Maybe it was because we were really wanting it. After that, we went to WalMart to do the grocery ritual. We bought lots of groceries because we had absolutely none at home. Thank goodness we did that. After that we came home and washed our cars. I started washing a spot on my car and then rinsed it off. Wow. It looked like a completely different car. I'm telling you, this thing looked like a gray car when it's supposed to be bright white. After that, we came in and just hung out. I did some homework and helped Justin look for some more internships. I had a cheeseburger for dinner and Justin had a deer cheeseburger. I dont' like deer meat so I didn't eat it. Well, now I am just blogging and I have just realized I am supposed to teach math tomorrow. Whoops. I better go study up on that. I still have to get a shower. I will post pics later for those who read this and may be interested in my trip. Otherwise, I will be posting them for myself! I hope everyone else had a fantastic Spring Break if you had one, otherwise I hope you all had a great week and I hope you all have a great week coming up!