Before college, my best friend, Elizabeth, invited me to go with her family Gatlinburg for vacation. Our first stop was the start of a wild trip. I don't remember the name of the restaurant we ate at; It was sketchy. The restaurant had a shop on the second level; The food was not the best. The house was too creepy and to top it off, as we left, there was a dead baby bird on the ground, that I almost stepped on. After that experience, my friend took us to go check in at the hotel while her parents found a local grocery store. Elizabeth realized she left her license back in Florida after asked to see an ID. Luckily, she had taken a photo of it previously, so we had less trouble with getting to our room. That night, we ordered pizza and planned out the next day of the vacation. When we finished eating, we decided to run around and play manhunt with Nerf guns. Elizabeth and I were a team while Sarah (Elizabeth's sister) and Taylor (Sarah's friend) were a team. The next day, I was sick to my stomach. I assumed it was from the pizza, but no one else was sick. Little did I know that every time I eat pizza now, I get extremely sick. I don't even know what aspect of it that made me sick. Half of the day, I was in bed, unable to move. I ended up throwing up to feel better and Elizabeth and I met up with Sarah and Taylor in Dollywood. All I had put in my stomach that day was a milkshake, but we walked all around Dollywood and went inside shops. My favorite part of the park was the area with all the cars. Sunday, we all went to Dollywood's Splash Country and stayed there most of the day. We rented out the last private resort, near the back of the park. My eye got sunscreen inside of it. It stung so much that I couldn't open my eye and we had to go to first aid to get it washed out. Sunscreen touched my eye about three more times throughout the vacation. All we really did was lay in the lazy river and went back to the hotel to get ready for dinner at Harpoon Harry's Crab Club. This marks the day I first tried crab meat. It was great, but I don't think I'll get it again because it was too messy for me. Elizabeth's dad took the four of us to Bristol, Tennessee on Monday. Sarah was getting fitted for her Jr. Dragster for a race two weeks later. When we got back to Gatlinburg, we walked downtown and went into a bath and body store. They mainly sold bath bombs, but I wouldn't really recommend going there, or at least don't buy the bath bomb with a ring inside of it. The ring was equivalent to a piece of foil with a cheap jewel that didn't fit any of our fingers. The coloring stained my fingers; I'm glad I didn't use the bath bomb. Elizabeth and I put ours in the sink because we wanted the rings and we thought it would be good quality, considering the price we paid. Taylor blew dried her hair, but she dropped the blow dryer into one of the sinks, which was filled with the bath bomb water. It started to smoke, so she unplugged it and then the plug fell into the water. Needless to say, no one used the dryer after that and we didn't drain the water until three days later. Our room was a huge mess. That night, we went to the Dixie Stampede and it was awesome. This was also the night when Elizabeth and I made friends with the security guard, but Sarah and Taylor thought we were getting in trouble. We had been trying to find a parking spot because people could not park their cars correctly and there was no room for Elizabeth's truck to fit; We ended up taking up two spaces and told the guard just in case he would give us a ticket. He told us we were fine and then we started a conversation about Gatlinburg. That night, Elizabeth and I stayed out until 3:00 A.M. and played life-size checkers. We all went back to the waterpark on Tuesday and rented a private resort next to the lazy river. The highlight of the day was seeing a man in a coconut bra. Back at the hotel, Sarah and I went to the heated indoor pool with some floats we bought prior. Two guys, Sarah met the previous night, were there as well. At night, we sat by the bonfire, played Cards Against Humanity, and ping pong. The security guard was doing his nightly rounds and got angry at everyone for playing ping pong so late, but when he saw Elizabeth and I, he came over and asked us how we were doing. The looks on everyone else's faces were priceless. Wednesday was adventurous. Sarah, Taylor, and I went to the pool while Elizabeth took a nap. Our newfound friends were there and asked us if we wanted to go walk the creek behind the hotel. Of course we said yes. The creek was beautiful and I'm glad I went. We jumped off the edge, too. I'd say it was similar to a waterfall. I lost my flip-flops in the mud; I should not have worn them. Sarah scraped her leg and I thought I brushed against poison ivy, but my leg was just red. Going down the creek was one of my best experiences thus far. Sadly, the fun had to eventually come to an end.