Saturday, For Starters

Saturday el jefe and I rose early and drove out to Blackwater Falls State Park in northern West Virginia. The point? To photograph what is told in AAA Magazine as a 5 story waterfall with my new Canon Rebel XTi.

And I did indeed. I'd held off on purchasing the camera for so long for fear it would cause a cascade of unforeseen, costly catastrophes. Rubbish, I quickly reminded myself. Absolute rubbish!

The waterfall was beautiful, to be sure. Leaving the park we traveled east a small way and happened on a small brewpub that offered authentic Italian and German food. We grabbed a bite to eat and quaffed our brew.


I had bratwurst. El jefe had a burger. When we left I remembered seeing a sign for Dolly Sods, it stating that the Sods were only 9 miles away. We drove in that direction but once again missed locating them. We were on 33E. We passed through Canaan Valley and then just started seeing signs for Smokehole Caverns. Oh well. As we drove, we passed a farm advertising antiques. Next to the road was a barn with a fence and a miniature pony that was standing in the cold staring at the barn. I thought the pony looked strange. El jefe must have too because he laughed out loud and asked if I saw it. Here was this miniature pony, standing in the freezing cold, just staring at the barn. We turned around and drove back slowly. Yep. Still staring at the barn as if it itself was frozen. El jefe broke into riotous laughter and I did too. That pony looked stupid. Yeah. And frozen. A stupid, frozen, dwarf of a pony with a blank, stupid stare. We about started crying from laughing so hard. We parked the car at the bank next door and got out and walked up to the fence to get a picture of the stupid miniature pony staring at the barn, but when I walked up the pony turned to look at us and then walked over to me. He was actually very sweet and I scratched his nose and rubbed it's head. That pony didn't deserve me calling it stupid. He's just a miniature pony, just trying to get along like everyone else.


Anyways, these XTi pics take a long time to upload so I've only picked a couple. As soon as I figure out how to edit AND save them I'll put up some more. Anyhow, we ended up coming down the mountain into Harrisonburg. As we were making our final descent, my brakes went out and I had to use the parking brake all the way till we could find a Meineke. $320 for new brakes and rotors. We got home at 9:30PM.