Wow, sorry for being away for over a week but it was one hectic one for me. I missed out on my engineering posts and sharing all that has been going on because I haven't had a chance to sit down and breathe. But I am here now so let me share what I have been up to!
Let's go back to Friday, January 16. A couple of my friends had planned out to go skiing at Snowshoe in West Virginia. I have never been skiing before so wasn't sure how I felt about that BUT it was an opportunity for me to meet up with my fiancée and have my friends finally meet him. Every time he visits me my friends are away visiting their families that are out of state. So anyway, I said yes, let's do it! The drive was going to be 6 hours and a half :S so it was going to be an interesting ride.
We all go to class Friday morning because it is mandatory and ended up leaving to West Virginia at around 8pm. Here I am all ready to go:
We ended up arriving to Elkins at around 2am so there really wasn't much I could take pictures of along the way. Here is a view from our hotel room the next morning.
I know the trees are dried out because it is winter but I can just imagine this place in the spring, summer, and fall. Must be even more beautiful!
My friends all headed to Snowshoes which was an extra hour away and the fiancée and I stayed behind so we could go exploring. I found a place called Seneca Rock in google maps and we decided that would be our end destination.
As you can see there isn't much snow around so I was a bit concerned of how these guys were going to go skiing. Later on you will see I had nothing to be concerned about. We ended up getting more snow than we wanted.
Look at all those gorgeous icicles! This was my first time seeing them. As we kept driving we ran into this man made cavern. Was pretty impressive yet creepy since icicles kept falling and smashing inside it. I kept thinking an animal was going to come running out of it.
We drove for 20 more minutes or so and finally started seeing Seneca Rock from a far. In the picture below you can see it in the middle. It is all those jagged rocks on one of the hill sides.
When we got there we noticed that there were hiking trails so we decided to check them out. We didn't go too far in since we didn't want to get stuck there over night or anything but just far enough to get a good sense of the place.
We had to cross over this nice little river. Was so peaceful to hear it and a beautiful addition to the rest of the view.
I was obsessed with the moss and the ice. Breathtakingly gorgeous!
We ran into this sign and realized this is a major rock climbing attraction. Unfortunately people have lost their lives :/.
The picture above has got to be my favorite picture! That is a steep hill he is standing next to.
I can just imagine this place in full bloom. We need to go back just to see that.
So during our walk I kept noticing my fiancée would throw some snow at me but I would just ignore it and kept walking because I didn't realize he wanted to have a snow fight. After like the third time he throws a snow ball at me and says, " Can you pick up snow and throw it at me already!?" lol. I immediately bent over and the war began. I kept telling him not to hit my face bc the ice burnt. Next thing I know I had a blizzard heading towards my face. Below was the end result. I think I lost lol Was my favorite thing we did all trip. We were giggling like little kids, it was great!
Bye Bye Seneca Rock! Hope to see you again when you are all green and even more amazing!
From here we headed back to the hotel. My friends weren't back yet and we didn't have much to do. We ended up going to Walmart and buying alcohol and battleship. I don't drink alcohol because I think it tastes nasty but my fiancée was bored and I said why not.
I ended up winning!!!! :) It was a really close game though! We played with the rules that if you missed or got hit you had to drink. You could drink your cup slowly to down it but after the fifth point against you you had to chug what was left. That rule had us both begging for mercy hahaha. But it was a great time. Feels good doing silly things together.
I ended up getting super sleepy after drinking 1.5 Smirnoff so went to sleep at like midnight. The next day we drove to Snowshoe with my friends before departing back to our states.
The place was incredible. So many different cabins and what not for lodging. This was like a little plaza that had restaurants and stores. The fiancée kept saying he felt like if he was a Hogsmeade. I agree!
Here I am trying my first Margarita. Wasn't so bad since I couldn't taste the alcohol.
Oh man and look at this giant chair we found! Also another one of my favorite pictures!
While we were eating a huge snow storm started to roll in. You can see it sort of in this picture.
We ended up leaving back to our states at around 4pm. The fiancée drove back to Virginia on his own which had me very worried. We were 3 cars driving back together. The streets were full of slush and snow coming down from the resort.
As we kept going we noticed that the storm kept getting worse and worse. Below you can see how we slowly started loosing visibility.
This is the last picture that documents what we got ourselves into. We ended up climbing a mountain and lost 1 of the cars with us. Their car hit some ice first and couldn't go up a curve. The more they accelerated the more control they lost of their car and ended up in the opposite lane. Their only option was to turn around. Our friends in the car infront made it up the curve so we decided to follow them since we were in an SUV. BIG MISTAKE!!!!!! We got to a point where it snowed so much it covered the lanes so we had no idea where we were going! We had the tire tracks from our friend's car but they had nothing. We all used GPS, reflectors on the side of the road, and everyone looking out the windows to tell where the edges of the roads were. Oh and no signal on our cells the whole way through.We wanted to stop but there were no shoulders to stop on, the nearest hotel was 20 miles and it was 20 miles to clear the mountain. No option but to keep going. The car I was in lost control in one and we slid down the road while rotating 90 degrees. When we came to a stop luckily we were in the road but ended up taking over both lanes. It was the scariest thing ever! We got back on track and made it out of the mountain. After that it was smooth sailing until we made it back home. The trip took like 7-8 hours. Glad we all made it home safely. Our other friend's that had turned around later told us that when they tried coming back again there was an accident where they had turned around. A car had lost traction and came sliding down and hit other cars. Once that was cleared they tried going up the curve again and their car got stuck. They had to get out and push it. We warned them no to go through the mountain because they wouldn't make it through. No idea what they ended up doing but they did make it back home safely.
My fiancée also ran into similar problems and he tells me he slid of the road twice heading home. But he got out of the bad weather faster than us and didn't get stuck climbing a mountain in his direction.
We got home at around 2 am on Monday. We slept all of Monday and then reconvened to start on homework :(. We found out that night it was a big mistake to not have started homework earlier because it was the worse one they have given us all semester! That is why I didn't have a chance to post or anything. All week I went to work and came home just to do homework! Glad to be over that homework!
Now I am playing catch up with everything. Again, sorry for not posting all week and falling behind on engineering diaries but I am only human and have limited time. Hope you enjoyed this post. The weekend was definitely one to remember always! Thanks to my fiancée who drove out to meet with us!
XOXO,
Lina
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