Spring Break Fun

Well it was spring break last week and me and my current roommate Mark and my ex-roommate Benjamin and 3 girls (anna, rachel, diana) went to the south western tip of North Carolina to a small middle of nowhere town called Bryson City. Our plan was to spend the days hiking in Smokey Mountain National Park, but some of the days were a bit too freezing so we tried some other things to occupy ourselves. The sixth of us were staying in a tiny 1 room cabin which had a mini-fridge and a microwave. We were hoping to have got a slightly bigger cabin with an oven and a stove so it would be easier to cook food but we made do with a campfire on some nights and an old gas barbeque the owners wheeled over twoards us. We were lucky that the three girls were really into cooking. So we did okay. Besides about two days of hiking our activities included lots and lots of sleep (thank God!), wednesday night revival service we stumbled upon at a small missionary baptist church of about 50 people (it was an experience...ask me about it sometime) and then our last night we went to the County High School's opening night of the production of Fidler on the Roof. We also took a study day (so I didn't feel like I was completely slacking for the MCAT...even though I really was). It was interesting to get into small town life a little bit, and run into people we had met earlier and the like. It was fun though. Oh, something a bit weirder is that we managed to get through reading the first 4 books of the Narnia series outloud around the campfire, or just before bed or in the car. It was a little weird but actually a lot of fun in the end. The best thing about it though is that there were a few morning's I woke up and wasn't exhausted, I haven't had that feeling in a long, long time.