Just an hour behind schedule, we left Nashville around 11:00 on Saturday. I was definitely pleased that we were ONLY an hour behind. Somewhere between Crab Orchard and Knoxville, we hit the hardest rain I've ever driven through. Between the sheets of torrential rain, the hail, and the fog, it was all but impossible to see the cars ahead. Hundreds of cars were pulled over on a few-mile stretch of the interstate; we decided to creep along and not take the chance of being stuck on the shoulder for an hour or so.

Around 5:00, we made it to the office to check in to the cabin. We found the cabin and unloaded all our stuff, then went to the Mandarin House Chinese buffet (over 160 items). It was the first time I'd ever eaten potato salad at a Chinese restaurant! Then we went to Wal-Mart to buy our groceries for the week and headed back to the cabin to relax in the hot tub and finally crawl into bed as the calendar changed to day four.