Monday, July 7, 2014

Cades Cove: the longest 11 miles of my life!

Hangry - adj. anger that is brought on by extreme hunger. May result in extreme measures, sometimes violent.

This definition alone can sum up the 11 mile drive at Cades Cove that we all experienced 2 days ago. Let me start by saying that the trip in it's entirety was 5 hours, 5 hours that I wish could have gone down a little differently.

It started out like any other drive, 3 of us crammed into the back seat of a jeep that seats 2, but besides just being crammed into seats, we also just made the worst mistake of the day by not eating lunch before we started. Within an hour of the drive, we were all at each other's throats with various insults such as everyone questioning each other on weather or not they took their "happy pills" that morning which progressed into threatening the people driving the cars in front of us to hurry up or they were going to be hurt and ended in Mr. Mayer flipping off a white-tailed deer for being one of the many causes of our delay. After a very stressful 4 hours though, we reached a general store at the end and we all got something to eat which put us in better moods making the last hour a fairly peaceful drive to the Smoky Mountain Brewery where we gorged ourselves and watched the rest of the Costa Rica vs. Netherlands World Cup match!

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