Bill and I had the grand idea to take the girls to see snow. We left our house around 12:00 pm to go to Lake Lure. We originally had a cabin reserved in Maggie Valley, but I got nervous about the snow and we cancelled that reservation. We (Bill) thought Lake Lure would be a safe drive. We stopped in Spartanburg to eat at Wade's and that's when the sleet began. I was driving and we went through so much snow that we were driving 5 mph some of the time. We didn't arrive at the cabin until around 7:00 pm (Lake Lure should have been a 2 hour drive). We couldn't even get up the drive-way because the snow was so bad. We had to WALK up to the cabin. Thirty minutes after we arrived the power went out. Luckily, we had a light in the cabin that allowed us to see in the den/kitchen. About two hours later, the battery in the light died and we were in the dark. We brought both mattresses from the bedrooms into the den and we all slept together. The temperature was probably 50 degrees by the morning. We still didn't have power in the morning, so we packed our stuff and left. We drove back through the snow and stopped at a gas station right before we got on the interstate. These pictures actually look like the kids were having fun. NOT! We were in the parking lot of an abandoned fast food restaurant and there were dumpsters beside us. We only stopped so that Presley could play in the snow for five minutes. Now, Presley has a completely different opinion of snow. No Thanks! Maybe next year we will go to the Bahamas...
