Spring Break - Sunday

We got on the road immediately from our last soccer game in the Mud Bowl (see previous posting). We had a good trip. Julianna slept a little and the kids read. We made it to Fort Payne, AL and stopped for a yummy dinner at Zaxby's.

Julianna generously shared her 2nd pair of sunglasses with Christian - but insisted that he wear the pink Dora ones!

One last leg of the trip, over the mountain to the cabin, we came across the water falls at the Little River Canyon. We've seen it this full and we had to stop and take pictures. It was beautiful and we all enjoyed our short little side trip. The kids even took a couple of pictures to use in thier 4-H photo contest at school next month.

A view of the falls and the bridge we drove over to get to it.

The kids loved this little side trip.

Even we got our picture taken.

The beautiful falls from above

After our side trip to the falls, we drove about 20 more minutes to the cabin. We had a plan of who would unpack what and who would carry what where and how we'd get it all done so we could hang out a bit before bed. We arrived right as it was getting dark and the first thig we noticed was that the garage door would not open. We went on inside and our fears were confirmed when we found out there was no electricity. We looked around and over at the marina, there was power, so it was just where we were.

We finally found a flashlight and the kids and I went on a manhunt for candles and candle holders. Good thing Gigi likes candles!!! We found a phone book for Rome, GA from 1997-98 but that wasn't very helpful. We tried information on my cell phone (Matthew's blackberry was dead and of course we couldn't charge it) and the only information for the local power company was their billing line and no emergency number.

After a while, we gave up and got the kids to bed. We had them all bundled up together in one bed with lot of blankets (it was about 56 degrees in the house) and told them if we got the power on, we'd get the heat on first thing.

About this time, Matthew found a more recent phone book with an 800 emergency phone number for the power company. They said they'd get a crew out in an hour or so. Finally a truck came out there, knew right away what it was and with a flip of a switch, we had power. We were very thankful.

We had to come in got the heat going and then clean out the entire fridge and freezer, but we were very fortunate that it wasn't very full since it was during the winter. We loaded it back up with the food we'd brought, blew out all the candles and headed to bed. It certainly was the start to our get-away we thought it would be, but we still were very grateful to be "away" and at the lake, which is a piece of heaven for us!

It's a bit blurry, but I took a picture of Matthew with the electric guys and their really long stick that fixed our power problem!!

I thought this was such a cute picture - Even baby Leah had to squoosh in to stay warm, too. I think they ended up waking up very hot, but oh well!