When I was 18 and Chad was 16 we went on vacation with our grandparents, Mamaw and Poppie. It was a 2 week journey from Ohio to Florida with many stops on the way. One such stop was Rock City, atop Lookout Mountain, GA. At the very top was Lover's Leap where you can stand and see 5 different states. I remember it was windy and cold, it was February on top of a mountain. Chad and I made the best of it though. We did recently survive Ruby Caverns where for some reason the tour guide thought we were married because we said we were Chad and Robyn Smith (oooooh nooo HE DIDNT) LOL! It was an interesting place with many different types of rock formations. One such formation was called Fat Man's Squeeze....now they call it the Needle's Eye(politically correct and all that). It was a formation that narrowed as you passed thru it. You kinda had to "squeeze" through at the end. Chad and I both went thru it and tried to get Mamaw to follow. Now at the time Mamaw was a little bit too big to actually fit and soooo it probably wasnt a good idea. Now I cannot remember if she actually tried it or not but the idea was very funny to us. Mamaw would sometimes be a little dramatic about things. In fact when we went out on the famous rope bridge, she was convinced we would plummet to our deaths. Now this idea was silly as the bridge was solid, but Chad never the less found it necessary to jump up and down on the bridge to "prove" it was safe. Maybe to torment Mamaw just a little. I heard a lot of "Oh Bernie" on that trip most of them probably that day.
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