Vacation Pictures - Day One

After driving five and a half hours, we stopped in the suburbs of Atlanta to visit the local Trader Joe's and pick up some "refreshments" for my parents (Award winning 2-Buck-Chuck wine.. $2.49 a bottle). If this were any normal store, we'd have looked like two winos checking out, but there were several other people using dollies to carry multiple cases to their car. We'll be stopping back at this store to take advantage of their amazing prices on delicious organic foods.

BTW- We tried the Sauvignon Blanc and it was pret-ty good.


Right before we left Georgia, Robert remembered a gorge he had visited several years ago as we were coming upon it. We managed to turn in in time and get down the trail before dark. The photos are grainy due to low light and a 3.1MP point-n-shoot camera. As we were leaving our car, we heard someone exclaim "GO GATORS!" and were taken aback... a fellow gator noticed our UF vanity plate. We exchanged friendly thumbs-up just like in the UF "Gator Nation" promotional commercials. Definitely weird considering how much we both hate those ads. In retrospect, we probably should have told the guy to go ... do something.



After arriving at our hotel in Maggie Valley in time to watch the Gator game while enjoying a slice of Nikki's raspberry cheesecake (a whole cheesecake, berries, and chocolate topping for less than $15, thanks Trader Joe's!).