yeah, Tony says you better step off

so meagan and i went to the smokies this past weekend. she prepared herself for the school year, i read physics for the medical cats, and indy just ran and swam.



we went to a place called lake james, which is like 3 hours west of chapel hill.



meagan was in charge of the fire making, and indy helped me with kinematics

the first night we took a hike with indy to an overlook, and it was amazing. its still funny to think that i live in the south now.

sleeping was ok, and meagan made banana pancakes in the morning.

there was a lake, but meagan couldn't swim because it was infested with wriggling children. so, she and indy hung out while i studied.

i took a break and we all went down to the place where dogs can be off leash...

and this was heaven for indy.

when we lived in the city, indy never really swam. i guess he needed to be in the country, because he swam non-stop for like an hour!

after the lake, meagan made another fire and we ate tofu pups, ramen, miso soup, coffee, hot cocoa and popcorn.

then more studying for me and hamlet for mego. i think we got in a fight because i told her i didn't enjoy reading hamlet in 12th grade.

that night it rained pretty hard, and i had to put the rain guard on the tent in the middle of the night. also, i also woke up thinking an animal was trying to get into the tent, and it was a scene similar to that bill bryson book where he hikes the AT and wakes up to snarles and claws on his tent. it turned out it was only indy, so that was a relief.

also, that night i had this awesome dream where i made an unassisted triple play (it was actually a quadruple play, but i didn't realize that until i woke up) for the unc baseball team. we were playing the japanese national team and the characters from 30 Rock were also playing. after i made this career play, the manager came out to the mound to yell at tina fey because she and floyd had ordered too many items from the menu at the ballpark. i think these were all UVA menu items, like crab cakes, and that made the manager more upset.

so we packed up sunday morning and drove home the long way, avoiding highways for local roads. this was one of the many churches we saw. i think this one had a sign that said something like, "prayer is a christian's vitamin."

and then of course there were signs for things that josh would love.

try to embiggen this, because it tells you the calendar schedule for crayfish! i love the south.