Comin' Around the Mountain

Where to begin...

Last week was the last week that I saw students. State testing is under way, so I am proctoring and doing end of the year stuff. Summer is almost here!
Friday, J got off work a little over an hour early so we could head to the GA mountains. It was a 6ish hour drive. We stopped and ate in Morganton, where the deaf school is. We drive in the pouring rain and in pitch black. Around curves. On a mountain. It was a long trip, but we made it a little after 11 (I think.) We couldn't tell much about where we were, but I knew I was tired. I woke up the next morning to this:


I couldn't wait to see it in the sunlight! Saturday, we went to breakfast in downtown Clayton at a cafe. It was so good! When we got back to the cabin, J and David went to play golf. The rest of us decided to go out on the boat. There were some amazing houses on the water!

View from the boat

One of the ridiculously large houses on the lake

Saturday night, we grilled hot dogs and hamburgers and put together a puzzle. It also cleared up by the end of the day, so we had some AMAZING views. What a beautiful world God has created. We got to eat almost every meal outside on the porch. Even when it was raining (which is did a lot of!), it was so nice to be able to sit outside and look at the mountains!

View from the porch once the sun came out

View from the side of the porch



Us on the porch


Sunset

Sunday, we went out on the boat for a little while. The rain caught us, but it was still fun! We had some cupcakes for Marion's birthday and grilled some steaks! We also heard the clock for the first time. M and J's mom had heard it before, but the rest of us hadn't. Apparently, when it is light enough, every hour the clock says, "Praise God" in an ominous voice. It was kind of creepy at first, then we found it hilarious. Everything in the house was pretty religious anyway. All the paintings had bible verses, they had their testimony written out for everyone to read, a phone number to call if you had prayer requests, etc. We even got to the point where we turned on the lights just so we could hear "Praise God."

Monday, we went to town for M's birthday. We ate at a seafood place.. in the middle of the GA mountains. We topped it off with some DQ.We were sad to leave, but happy to be leaving when it was light out! We headed back home, but we made a pit stop to see NCSD. One of the prettiest schools I have ever seen!





It was a great weekend! But now, back to the real world...