One day trip to The Great Smoky Mountains

Decent versions of the trip:

1. D's version
2. K's version
   

Indecent highlights of the trip (Ok some are not that indecent :) )

1. P wanted to P: 10.30 AM, I get a request from P to take a gas exit. Unfortunately for him, I take the exit @ 12.30 PM. By that time all wanted to P :)

2. Sitting Duck: D was trying to maneuver the tube around the river with the back of her hand lightly touching the water. You know what happened next, the tube headed straight for the banks and the trees.


3. Successful rescue attempt: On the tubing trip R2 thought she was way ahead of everyone else, so she hung onto a tree branch just after a rapid, unfortunately for her the float wanted to carry on its downstream journey. The tree branch is not strong enough to hold her so she went into the water. R1 watched all this and came to rescue like a Knight in shining armor. She speeds up her tube to the bank breaks a tree branch in the water and tries giving it to R2. R2 holds onto the tree branch after a struggle, guess what happens next, the branch snaps! . R1 walks in a bit and gives the branch again, the branch snaps again. On the third try R2 was rescued to the comforts of dry land and the tube was a mile downstream :)


4. P and D wanted everyone to trek: We started on the Big Creek Trail @ 7.30 in the evening, reached the mouse creek fall @ 8.45 PM. By the time we saw our car again, it was pitch dark. We saw a bearded man walking towards us while we were trying to get out and he was trying to get in??? We also saw some eyes in the bushes, some fire flies, P analyzed 3 different kinds of animal faeces. Which all of us stepped on :)


5. In the nick of time: All of us thought it was going to become dark on the trail and we decided to head back without seeing the Mouse Creek Waterfall. S suggested we go on for 2 min on the trail to see if it is very near, and like a bull's eye, in 20 steps the waterfall was upon us. Thank You S. This delayed us further :)
   


6. Nobody ate @ Shoney's: One thing, I have learnt, I am NEVER taking a desi gang to a soup, salad american place. I loaded 2 full plates, S and K ate some. But then, some other plates just had 3 onions and 2 cucumbers and a biscuit.

Disclaimer: All the characters in this post are non-fictional and all pun, intended.