South Carlolina: Family Reunion

This past weekend I went to South Carolina where, obviously from the name, my extended family had a family reunion. They have one every year in this region of the United States. The event itself was a Table Rock State Park and then me and my grandmother stayed at Oconee State Park which is not to far away from the other one. They both are pretty similar where there is a lake that has a swimming area and then some canoeing (I swear I am spelling it right but the spell checker wants to say otherwise) or paddle boat, they also both have pavilion areas and cabin areas. This was just one of the many family reunions I have been to down here. Past events were more in North Carolina where me and my cousin helped apprehend a criminal! To bad this year my cousin could not make it he is out west in Santa Fe, NM. Uh see that trip here New Mexico.

So Thursday I left as soon as I could after work but I had to finish packing and didn't get out of the house until 6pm. The trip was supposed to be 4 hours according to google maps however due to traffic in the Atlanta area it ended up being a 5 hour trip, so I didn't get in till 11:00 there at the cabin. Oh ya here is the video for this blog... Okay I really didn't see any of the places in this video but the mountians do have alot of waterfalls that you can go visit and a couple of them are known as "Sliding Waterfalls" which this means you get to go down them kind of like a waterslide!!! They are really really fun but I didn't do any on this time around :-(



Needless to say nothing happened on Friday. Saturday I ended up getting up pretty early.. well okay (why doesn't the spell checker like okay!!!! WHY???)really this is normal time for me DURING the week! On the weekend I would rather have slept in! I got up anyway had breakfast got everyone else up and we were off the the reunion. Now I am sorry to bore you but I have a boring family. Nothing really happened we had hot dogs and hamburgers. Talked about all the people who are having medical problems... None of the younger group was there this time. I really wanted to see some people but they didn't come this year even though they probably live closer then I do. They called business and almost disbanded the family reunion because no-one was willing to be responsible for organizing the next one. Eventually someone did and they produced a date and place for the next one, and set that the following one was going to be in Florida... Maybe... Its my family anyways they probably won't remember what they said a week from now. One of the members brought their music group so we had some live music. They played all short songs that are American classics that are not really played anymore so I forget most of the words to the songs. End of reunion.

We went back to the cabin and tried to go down to the lake for some canoeing but they don't give out the paddles after 5:30!!! GAARRR!!! FRUSTRATING!!! Went back played some hand and foot (a card game.. don't worry if you don't know it not alot of people do. [man i swear they spell alot wrong too I thought there was only one l!!]). Me and my partner won! Mostly because the opposing team was to scared to pick up the pile and didn't want to get stuck with all of those card in their hand, this strategy however risky puts some serious point on the board though. Played dice with my aunt.. she won... I am not good at totally random stuff! Cards at least you have a bit more control over your options.

Saturday I tried sleeping in but my grandmother wanted to wake everyone up for no reason just because she decides she wants to make breakfast that no-one likes. Bah whatever... we go on the road to her brothers house. Takes about 30-45 minutes to get over there. They are not there... We go down to Bravard which takes another 30-45 minutes they are looking for a Sonic to eat at!!! So you want to tell me we are traveling an hour or more to look for a freaking sonic to eat at? They couldn't find one where they thought there was one so I vier them towards some barbecue place. It was pretty good. More frustrating things... Bah... Went to the waterfalls... more frustrating things... GGAAARRRHHHH STICK TOGETHER PEOPLE!!!! DON'T WANDER OFF! By the time we get back home it is freaking 9:30pm or something and I have a 4 hour drive to make. I eat more ice cream and go home. In the end I dub this weekend a big waste of money and time! You know its not that I don't like my family it just that they frustrate me when I am at the mercy of their planning and having to have to include them on decisions.