Spring Break

So I guess this post is kind of mandatory. But I think it will be a bit of twist on the normal. Because yes, we rode more than 250 miles in the week, climbed mountains until it hurt to walk, and did six gap century and climbed Brasstown Bald, but we also actually had fun, so I am going to write about that.

First off, we did NOT get to go to Brother's Restaurant after our drive all through the night because they didn't open until 11 am this year, so we went to Waffle House instead. It was not good. Brother's really let us down...at least I thought so. Everyone else seemed to be smiling (at least fake smiling).On Sunday, we rode to Graham's cottage about 20 miles away where his parents had a BBQ for us. The cake they had for desert was absolutely amazing. On Monday, after the century, we ate at the local Mexican restaurant in Helen (La Cabana). I decided to have a nice [big] Margarita for my hard work of the day.

The rest of the week was filled with lots of riding, playing Rock Band, team meetings where every word I said was sarcastically analyzed by the whole team (especially by Mattison and Ken), and haircuts for some members of the team (Sean and his rat-tail, Cory and his way too short hair, and Mattison and his mullet). On Wednesday, we made our way down to Helen to check out the rock shops. We found a bar and all enjoyed a nice pint of local Hef-Weizen (some had other beers and of course Zachariah had his gluten free frou-frou drink).

Thursday some people went to Atlanta to check out the Aquarium, I decided to go hiking with a couple other guys, which was a very nice change from the norm (not riding)- though my legs didn't like it as much after climbing to the highest point in GA the day before.
Those of us that didn't go to Atlanta visited Cleveland that night for our yearly dinner at Ma Gooch's. I have a picture of the place just in case you don't believe it is it's actual name. That was some good country cookin'. I even tried some fried Okra with my Fried Chicken and they were absolutely amazing. I felt like a Country Boy.The drive back was pretty fun, too. We stopped at UNO for lunch and had a waiter that admitted to having too many Red Bulls and actually told Josh multiple times that he looks like a serial killer. I tried the UNO amber ale, which actually paired so well with the pizza I had that I am pretty sure it is the best food and beer pairing I have ever had...perhaps even better than at Grizzly Peak.