I'm back

I'm back from the Vacation from HELL..It would have been better maybe had I wanted to go, no I sort of got forced into going cause my parents didn't want me to be alone the whole weekend without transportation to get around in, plus my cousin keeps calling and harassing me!
First of all, the night before we left, Austin sustained a bad bruise from falling off of one of those little yellow kids chairs and I guess he sort of landed on the floor and his leg was on the yellow part and it bruised pretty badly, Well I wasn't keeping him my sister in law was. The whole time on the way up their I was worried that they would think that I beat him or something and my sister in law is good about calling DSS on people even when Its just a lie she says, its happened between her and her so-called best friend. SO if she is willing to turn in her best friend over a lie (and admit it later on) then who's to say she wouldn't do the same to me!?
anyway, I finally said I might as well forget about that for the time being. So I did.
We get to Cherokee, NC and none of the major hotels had rooms available not even in the Harrah's Casino hotel which costs anywhere from 200 to 250 bucks a night! Nope no rooms! So we found a sleeze bag motel room called the Wig Wam Motel...
EICK! The room smelt like mildew, the beds were small, and lumpy, NO PHONE, only a few channels on the TV. The water in the shower came out more like a sprinkle at a time, The shower head was only 5 feet above the floor of the tub so that means if you TRY to wash your hair you would have to duck unless you are under 5 foot tall.
No electrical outlets to plug lets say a coffee maker up in, they had one in the bathroom for like a razor but they didn't have any counter space at all!
The table in the room was literally about to fall apart as well. The A/C unit was odd cause you can have FREEZING COLD or OFF or HEAT but no in-between like Cool.it was just cold and off and hot..No in-betweens so your either Freezing or your Hot. *LOL*
I wanted to stay in the Harrah's hotel....It was a lovely hotel.
While my parents went into the casino to try to win a pt cruiser or 5,000 bucks that they were giving away (in order to qualify they had to play the machines between a certain time) me and the kiddies went to the arcade room in the hotel. I spent 10 bucks in a matter of 15 minutes and I didn't have anymore cash on me at the time.
so we were sitting around the arcade with a bag of M&M's that they won with their (Tre and Dakota) Tickets that came from the game machines. 100 tickets for a bag of M&M's!
Finally my mom and dad appeared and said they lost all their Cash Money!
I was like oh well! (it doesn't bother me much anymore because, they use to gamble their rent money years ago so I'm use to it)
so we went back to the Roach-motel..Fixed everyone a sandwich (choices were Chicken Salad, Bologna, or peanut butter but no jelly) I took a Chicken Salad sandwich, Dakota didn't want one, and tre ate a peanut butter sandwich.
then my parents went back to the casino for the actual drawing that was suppose to take place at 10 9. They left me with the two kids in the room with nothing on the TV except some baseball and "who's line is it anyway?" on the TV. So I watched the Who's line..... And a thought occured to me, the only time I watch this show is when I'm stuck up here in the mountains while my parents goes to Harrah's! I never watch this show at home cause I think its kinda silly and has no point other than to make you laugh at something stupid.
So here I am, trying to laugh my ass off and keep the kids in check the whole time. I looked up and realized that the Smoke detector was on the wall kinda open so lifted it up and guess what? It had no battery in it! My oldest son became hysterical! He got scared because the smoke detector wasn't working properly! (he wants to be a fireman when he grows up!*LOL*)
anyways, it was getting late it was 10 pm and the drawing was well over by that time, but no parents, I thought they must have won big and getting all the verifications and signatures and such together..Nope that didn't happen.
My parents finally came in around 11 PM. And said they got all their money back on the machines..While waiting for the drawing they put like 5 bucks in that my mom had hidden away and hit it for 70 bucks, (they originally had 80 on them) so they were happy..Until we all tried to sleep a horrible sleep! The beds were so lumpy! It was hot, so the air got turned on, it was cold so it gets turned off, it gets hot so it gets turned back on..All freakin' night long! So now I have a cold! And so does my mom and kids!!!
The next morning we left to go visit my great aunt in Andrews, NC. She is like 80 years old and the sweetest old lady you could ever meet. We started having car trouble....My parents put 900 bucks in that van last week and its still having van trouble! It would skip trying to pull up mountains and would barely pull up them.
My dad thinks its the transmission.
Anyways, after we leave there we went to Blairsville, GA to visit my other aunt that lives like 45 minutes away from the nearest STORE outside of blairsville. Man that was rough my dad had to keep on pulling over to let the traffic go around him cuz it would barely go 40 miles per hour around those mountains going uphill.
We visited her, Got some of our old photos back that my mom had accidentally sent up there with a few boxes of clothes and such.
Her son John is a nice man, a little slow but yet smart.its hard to explain what exactly is wrong with the poor man..But he is good with my children and nice. We left there two hours later, and went and ate at KFC in blairsville, GA..After we left there we had to go back to my great aunts house in Andrews, NC because my mom left her Address book on her couch. We went and got that and we finally at 6 pm started back home..With a few stops on the way and all of us dozing off including my father who was driving us. We somehow managed to make it home at 1 A.M. unscathed from the tortures adventure that we had.

~Managed to be spell-checked on 8/23/04 @ 11:17 A.M.