Our honeymoon: Wednesday & Thursday
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 04:36AM Wednesday, our second full day in VA, the plan was to spend the day exploring Shenandoah National Park. The first thing that went wrong with this plan is that we couldn't find our National Park pass before leaving home and so we had to pay the entrance fee. The second thing that went wrong is that everything, no I'm not kidding, EVERYTHING looked like this:
Look I'll show you more.
Fog fog everywhere. We thought maybe the sun would burn it away eventually, but it never cleared up even a little. We paid to look at this shit. I know there’s nothing anyone can do about the weather, but what a disappointment huh? And even if the fog had cleared, half the pullouts were closed with this explanation:
I was really excited to see Shenandoah, so the whole thing was a real bummer. Then ass we were driving away from the diner where we ate lunch, someone pulled up beside us and yelled, "You're almost on the rim! Front passenger!"
Mother fucker, we had a flat. A really flat flat. Luckily there was a service station next to the diner, so we filled it with air, but the whole thing was too precarious. We drove about 100 yards and decided it wasn't safe, so we turned around and called AAA.
But seriously, they were SO slow (Can you blame them? They were coming to the middle of a national park!), so my man stepped in.
Pretty soon we were back on the road and we headed straight back to town where we found a tire store. The dude there patched it up for only $10 and I've been driving on it ever since! All the way home from VA, and back and forth on my hour plus long commute each day. Knock on wood. Wow, I so just screwed myself.
Our hot air balloon ride had been rescheduled for that night, but when we called to check, they said it was too foggy but we'd definitely be able to go Thursday night because it was supposed to clear up. So we had dinner in town that evening, then hung out at the cabin all night doing pretty much what we did the night before: hot tub, books, DVDs (we brought a season of Angel), etc.
Thursday we had no plans until our balloon right in the evening. We considered trying Shenandoah again, but we were skeptical. We took it as a sign that we should just chill for a day. So we did! We explored the woods and pond behind the cabin...
...took pointless pictures of each other...
...read some books...
...and laid out in the sun.
[Inappropriate sunbathing photo withheld.]
Eventually we got restless, so we ventured into town. We visited an antique shop and thrift store where we bought several fun gifts for a few key people who helped with the wedding.
(These were not the gifts.)
I also bought a mirror for myself that I plan to paint black. And then I made Mike carry it across town to our car.
I also bought this antique necklace that I love!
When we got back to the cabin, guess what, the balloon ride was canceled for the third day in a row. It was a serious disappointment because we were so excited about it. But we, yet again, chilled at the cabin and took it easy all night. Our last night in our little hideaway paradise. But we had some fun on the way home, too, just to extend the fantasy world where work doesn't exist a little longer.
Reader Comments (1)
I want that necklace!!
And it stinks that the hot air balloon didn't work out but at least you guys made the most of your trip.