Posted by Karen on 27-Jul-2008
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Today, we drove along the Tellico River Parkway to Bald River Falls in the Cherokee National Forest. The drive is beautiful and winds and follows the Tellico River. After enjoying the niceness of the falls and checking out some cool bikes, we headed back and stopped for lunch along the river. Back to Etowah for some more hanging out, chatting, geocaching, laughing and having a relaxing time.
Posted by Karen on 26-Jul-2008
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Day two at Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park and the grasshoppers are still chirping. I have never heard grasshoppers go at it like this, my friends don’t even hear them, but man are they loud, so loud I feel like I have to yell to be heard over them when we talk. It rained a bit during the night, and a couple of the tents didn’t prove waterproof, so we started drying things out while making breakfast. While we were playing at the river, the rain started coming down hard, but since we were wet already, no need to stop playing in the water. Unfortunately, the tents got soaked, so we cut the camping trip short and I checked into the hotel that Bonnie and Jim were staying at. We all spend that afternoon hanging out at the Etowah L&N Train Depot, laughing, chatting and just having a good old time doing nothing. And when it got dark, we continued the “just hanging out” at the hotel lobby.
Posted by Karen on 25-Jul-2008
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I arrived at the Hiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park last night and easily found my friends at the “Gee Creek” campground. How nice to arrive at camp and all the tents are set up already… thanks Ferret!! After breakfast, Tammy, I and the girls, Barbara and Alyssa, take a trip to the Walmart in Athens and buy food for the weekend. Back at camp, it’s just a hanging out, relaxing kinda day. I take Barabara, Alyssa and little brother Tony geocaching around the park and they find their first two geocaches and are very excited. We watched a group of people float down the river on floaty sticks and that looked fun, but cold! More relaxing and hanging out by the side of the river and chatting with friends–doesn’t get much better than this.
