Well Friday was another travel day back down to the Boone/Banner Elk area at 8 AM where we headed over to a roller coaster type attraction that was unbelievable in action which last 45 seconds at terrific speeds and G- Forces called Alpine Coaster, yikes what a money making attraction and then we stopped at a go kart track and did another attraction again at what was another high speed event before heading to Chic Filet for lunch. We did encounter a hard rain storm when going to lunch and before heading back north for home.
The day started with my usual well before 6v rollout to my routines that begin with some quiet moments to honor my lord, Jesus, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. Ava seems to be better as well and we've heard nothing new for anyone else. I checked the gardens and the deer was in the back garden again and decided it was time to eat the lettuces heads. Thankfully I had cut several large heads and gave them away, because last night they ate down the remaining heads and then pulled them out of the ground and once again ate off the pepper plants. So far the upper garden which has a small low fence around it hasn't attracted them yet but the other patches have been decimated by them, oh well.
I headed out with Bobby, the twins and Gabe down a different way to Boone and I was shocked at how much shorter it was after going down the 2 miles of crooked roadway and onto the Traphill road which was a very nice drive. We never take that way but with the parkway closed it was much shorter than going back through Sparta. We first made a couple of stops due to Gabe's nose bleeds which has happened once again after going quite a spell without any. He really had some serious bleeds on the way down and back but didn't seem to happen on any of the rides.
I did the roller coaster with Huckson tucked between my legs and wow what a ride which was terrific but short which made sense as I thought a couple times were were going to fly off the track. Its a very popular attraction with folks lined up for the ride down the mountain and then we had a great laughter and fun event as the twins who are 4 and Palmer who is 5 all drove their own gas power go-karts. I've never laughed so hard in years as we watched them speed around the track, crashing and going the wrong way at times. That only lasted a few laps as they ran over an attendant and finally crashed head on into a barrier. Dan, Neal and Gabe had a spirited meet with Gabe winning and then Bobby, me and Gabe had a duel as well with Gabe out driving me and Bobby.
We had lunch out with tons of folks at this busy eatery before heading back up to the cabin. Thankfully we saw where some rain had fallen for us as water ran down the drive at times. I checked the rain gauge before dark and we had received a much needed 1 inch of rain. Our plans for the evening changed because of the rain so we never got together with Palmer's grand folks at our cabin because of the slippery driveway, but Bobby, Katie, Neal and Danille all met up at the Muddy Creek in Sparta for dinner out and a date night. We had left over ribs, broccoli and parsley taters with cheese cake and ice cream for dessert. I watched the Ray's until 9'ish (which they were losing) until it was shower time and then some horizontal lab soon after, LATER
