The Mountain Journal…

I was…um…supposed to write a journal once a day chronicling my Christmas journey through the Smokey Mountains. And I um might have gotten so busy with school (and that new boyfriend ;-)) that I couldn’t get around to posting all of the journals I wanted to.

So, blog readers, let’s step back and time and cover lost ground, what do ya say? Well, since I’m writing this, I’ll just go ahead and do it regardless of what you say :)

 

That is the interstate. Yeah. Thankfully, I wasn’t driving. As we went creeping along (that’s ice where the snow has been pushed off), we saw several cars spin out. SCARY stuff!

Anyway, once we got into Tennessee, we discovered our cabin was UP a MOUNTAIN! Think, ice, snow, unplowed twisty/windy roads…not exactly ideal conditions. Against the cabin maintenance guy’s warning, up we went. After about an hour of struggling, we made it.

I jumped out and would have kissed the ground. Instead, I quickly found my ballet shoes didn’t exactly meet the requirements for being in snow. So, I bounded up to the porch. And it was on that porch that I took in God’s magnificent work.

 

The trees were in my way from getting a good panoramic shot, but hey, when there’s that much beauty, a few trees won’t stop me from viewing it. :)

  Needless to say, we didn’t get much barbecuing…

  or rocking done. :)

The end for now. More to come really soon. Or you know…as soon as I can.

~Jessica

Ahem…

Attention. I. Have. A. Boyfriend. Yep. Somehow, I’ve done gone and fell in love ;-) I’m kidding. About the somehow part. I know how…by God’s divine hand reaching down and knocking me upside my wee head and knocking some sense into me.

Sad thing? I don’t have a picture with him yet. Or at least, not one downloaded from an SD card, saved into my computer, and then uploaded here. But I do believe that somewhere, in this vast world, there IS a picture of the two of us together. It just hasn’t magically landed into my computer files. Shame on the wee thing!

Although most of you already know this, I vaguely remember telling you you’d be the first to know. So here it is. The big news in black and white. Or if I’ve changed the color of my ink, it MIGHT be brown. But brown and white is just as good :)

The end. :)

~Jessica