I checked my email this morning and saw an email from our renter in Bend letting us know that she has a good job opportunity that she is going to take and she will need to break her lease. She seemed very cooperative about doing what she needs to to fulfill her agreement until we can get another renter in. I didn't reply to her yet. We know God has a plan and we are choosing to trust Him right now.
After struggling with internet issues all morning, Brock eagerly walked down to the store to pick up his package from the 3G Store only to find that while FedEx did it's job and delivered it on time, it was sitting at a warehouse here at the park and wouldn't be brought to the store until "that guy came on duty" around noon. :o( To the campground's credit, they did call us right at 12:30 to let us know that it had arrived and Brock went and grabbed it.
He plugged in the Verizon antenna first and the mifi signal went from two bars to three right away. For the rest of the day, it seemed more stable as well. Yay!
With all this rain, we are getting pretty concerned about whatever the "leak" is with the slide in the bunkroom. Yesterday our shower leaked as well. It appeared to be because water was dripping onto the faucet so that might need resealing as well and our trailer is still under warranty so we decided we'd better get it in. Brock called one shop that is an authorized Jayco service center, and had good reviews online, only to be told that they could get us in mid-February. Yah, that's not quite acceptable for us, but thanks anyway. Next, he called a dealer called Camping Time which seems to have been bought out by a Camping World. They have 18 bays and they could've gotten us in today. We asked if tomorrow would work since we are paid here at Stone Mountain through tonight. They said sure.
That put a little bit of a rush on things since we haven't even seen "Stone Mountain", the carving yet. Brock had a very full work schedule, but could take an hour and half break at 2 so we could drive around and look at the sculpture. We worked on school until then. There was a break in the rain, but we grabbed our raincoats and hopped in the car.
We drove around to the front of the mountain and low and behold, it was socked in completely. We couldn't see anything from the parking lot except enshrouding fog. We got out and walked to the Visitor's Center area. It seemed pretty much completely deserted. We walked around to the back of the buildings and waited a little and as the clouds moved, we got glimpses of the sculpture.
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| Huge relief carving of Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee |
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| Better pic for accurate scale |
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| Ivy-covered trees and two sweet boys |
We saw one other party of three people who were trying to get a couple of pictures as well. There is an attraction at the base of the visitor center called Snow Mountain which is a man-made sledding hill. It isn't open right now; I think maybe just on weekends during this season. We did get to see the snow-making machine spew out some snow which impressed the kids, but all in all a pretty disappointing destination. As we were walking back through the doors of the visitor's center to the car, a gentleman told us that there were continuously looping videos playing in a theater. One was about the Civil War in Georgia and one was about the carving. We went into the theater and the Civil War DVD was playing. I think it was only a 15 minute show and before it was over the same gentleman had peeked into the theater twice. We were the only people in there. The second time he peeked in and said, "We're closing after this one, but the gift shop is open til 4 if you want to look around." Huh? OK, then. So, we didn't get to watch the film on the carving. We had no desire to look in the gift shop. We headed back to the trailer feeling like this place was a big let down, especially for the nightly rate we are paying at the campground, even though its the off season. I DO think this place would be spectacularly beautiful with nice weather and the trees all leafed out around us and if SOME of the other attractions were operating. I would love to rent a boat and paddle around the big lake that the park wraps around, if it weren't pouring rain.
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| Sky was so pleased to find the bright orange leaf. I love that this little man looks for things like that! |
When we got back, we finished up our last book, our read-aloud, Elijah of Buxton. We got this one on audible.com and Bri, Bryn and I are really enjoying it. The gentleman that reads it does a fantastic job with the voices. He makes it hard to believe there isn't a whole cast of actors playing the different characters. Spence and Sky spent the rest of the afternoon watching movies on Spencer's DVD player. (ok for a rainy afternoon every now and then). Brock worked pretty much the whole rest of the day in work meetings. Yay! again! for the new antenna. He is, in fact, still working. The rain is pouring down outside and I think I just heard a tree fall in the forest (!). I'm glad we're checking out tomorrow and we will be getting the little things looked at on the trailer. I don't know where we'll be tomorrow night. Possibly the "Camping World" parking lot. Tune in tomorrow night to find out...
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