So, like I said, we went in search of snow this weekend. We used to this kind of stuff all the time before we have kiddos. So, it was kind of fun, revisiting the past, so to speak.
The thing is, we can’t do anything in “normal” fashion. We decided to go to see snow around 7:00pm Friday night. So we quickly packed, grabbed dinner at my favorite Thai place, and then filled up Mr. OverKill’s truck with “grease.” (We burn biodiesel in our vehicles most of the time.) This particular grease was part of a batch that was given to us, so fuel for the search for snow, zero dollars.
We drove for about 6 hours that night, and then stopped. Part of the reason we stopped was because I was completely zonked. The other part of the reason we stopped was that the transmission on Mr. OverKill’s truck started having issues. Basically, it sounded like the truck was suddenly put into neutral, and then would suddenly shift back into gear. Not a fun experience when you are going down the interstate at 70 miles an hour.
Well, the next morning, I realized that we had kind of stayed in a “less than desirable” hotel. I was so tired the night before, that I didn’t really care. But in the morning, I was quite eager to get going, and was VERY glad that I had my own pillow.
**QUICK QUIZ! Most hotels ask to see ID when you check in right? Why do you think a hotel would refuse to rent rooms to people who live in their local area???
So, we got back on the road again, and the truck seemed to be running fine. Until we hit a small town in Georgia. So, we searched for an auto part store, and Mr. OverKill determined what part he needed (the name escapes me know), and he tried to locate it. Funny though, no one could find the part. On a fluke, one guy at a part store said, “Does your truck have a snow plow option?” Huh? We live in FLORIDA, no it doesn’t have a snow plow option. Mr. OK says, well let me see what the part looks like. Sure enough, it’s the part he needs. The sad thing is, that no one had the part.
These are the kinds of adventures we have people! So, we spent the better part of two hours in the parking lot of a parts store trying to rig up the truck so we could either continue our adventure, or go home. I love my hubby! He got us going again, and while he fixed the truck in the freezing cold, gale force wind, I sat in the truck and read.
Onward and upward, right? So, we decide to keep heading north to try to accomplish our goal of seeing snow. And we did, south of Macon! It was SO cool, just to be driving down the interstate seeing snow, everywhere!
We decided to get a hotel room for the night in Georgia. So, I started looking for a hotel on my handy-dandy smart phone. I clicked on a link that I thought was going to call Best Western. The associate was SO nice, found us a hotel room, got everything booked up for me, and gave me all the info for the hotel. After I hung up, I thought, hmmm I wonder why the hotel didn’t have the name “Best Western” in it somewhere. So, I look the hotel up on my handy-dandy phone, and it is not a Best Western. I had been scammed by a “hotel reservation” service. Not only that, but the hotel turned out to actually be an “extended stay” hotel with lots of “economically challenged” people living there. I was scared! We disputed with the hotel and they refused to do anything for us. We disputed with the scam company, who eventually, didn’t want to talk to me anymore. Now, we have taken it up with our bank, who is fighting it for us.
These are the kinds of adventures we have folks!
So, we did what any self-sufficient adult would do, we called Mr. OverKill’s Mom. She booked us a GREAT room on Priceline. Things were finally starting to look up. We checked into the new hotel, and found a beautiful – safe – room waiting for us. Paid for with an anniversary gift, zero dollars.
We got cleaned up and headed out for a wonderful dinner at Maggiano’s. We had a gift card for Maggiano’s, romantic dinner, zero dollars.
The next day we headed over to Stone Mountain.
They have snow tubing during the winter, and we thought that would be fun. Well, by the time we got over there, the tubing was sold out for the day. We went ahead and checked the place out though. Looks like it would be a fun place to take the kids. And their campground is beautiful!
We thought we would ride up to the top of the mountain and look around, but sadly, they weren’t running the Sky Rail that day.
Somehow, Mr. OverKill talked me into climbing the mountain. It must be love! As we were climbing, this pole came into view. Being the true Floridians that we are, we were perplexed as to how this pole became covered in barnacles…up here on the mountain.
Upon closer inspection we discovered that it wasn’t covered in barnacles, it was covered in…..
gum…ewwww!
We did make it to the top of the mountain. I was so excited!
Really, I was…it’s just hard to see through the exhaustion on my face ;)
We had a fantastic weekend together, and made it home without incident and without breaking the bank, priceless.