We had a buffet breakfast back in the Lodge's main building, Keith even managed to make his own waffle! Then after a stop in the gift shop, we walked back to our rooms to pack up again.
The hotel was getting ready for a wedding that was due to take place on the lawn by the lake - a very romantic setting.
I had seen on the map there were some waterfalls 3 miles back that we had missed yesterday, and i thought that might be nice to do first this morning. Hmmm not such a good idea, it said 0.6 miles, should be ok! It didn't say 0.6 miles downwards!!! We did reach the top of the cascade but you couldn't really see much and we were all worried about going too much further because we realised how tough it was going to be to get back up. It was hard, there was no air movement and it felt very humid, we were all hot and sticky by the time we hot back to the car. With air con on full we set off south towards Roanoke, about 20 miles away.
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| the wedding taking place at Peaks of Otter Lodge as we drove back past |
It was quite a long drive and we arrived at our next hotel just after 4pm, we did get held up in some traffic for about half an hour just gefore Charlotte.
After checking in, and giving Keith a bit of a break, we drove the short distance to Carowinds, we had brought a 2 day ticket with the intention of spending a couple of hours wandering around the park (we have fast pass again tomorrow). It was very busy, longish queues for all rides, so after taking some photos, we left about 8.30 and went to Applebees for dinner.
Carowinds is a sister park to Kings Dominion that we visited on Wednesday, and there looks to be some interesting rides to do tomorrow, especially their new coaster Fury 325 which is, yep!, 325ft high!
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