Day Two, Saturday
First stop was breakfast at Tellico Grains!
I had the blackberry almond turnover and Matt had quiche.
That bundle under my plate is a loaf of herb flatbread that was devoured at
lunch.
We had a couple extra kids with us.
There is our little popper and Bobby and Gina's darling Scotty camper, we were neighbors in the muddy flats of the KOA.
The kids went off to swim and go down the slip-n-slide until the weather turned nasty and we all hid in our own campers until it blew over. My welcome mat made a run for the river during one downpour.
After the rain-which was so hard it felt like someone had turned a fire hose on us and was so heavy our welcome mat actually floated around outside the camper (and we discovered a few leaky window seams!) we headed out with Bobby and Gina and our extra Emily to the fire tower outside Coker Creek, which was not a fire tower at all. But they climbed it anyway and what a view!
Bobby jumped off the roof, insuring his place in camp story legend for a while yet.
It was time to head back to camp for dinner, so we got back in our vehicles and made the long and winding trek back down the single-lane road, thankful for every mile that passed without encountering another car trying to come up.
Back at camp, Bobby made a nice fire and we had hot dogs and S'mores!
A rain came through briefly and left us a rainbow.
It also washed the roots out from under a tree across the road and we all
watched the crash as it fell!
There are 9 people not in this picture, we had a big group!
Dave and Suzie, sittin' inna tree...