Sister Shenanigans!

So, a few weekends ago my sister invited me to come with her to the Country Superfest in Jacksonville. Since she lives in Georgia and I live in South Florida we decided to rent a motel and meet there the first day of the concert, check in and then head to the concert together....sounds simple right?

So it took me quite awhile to find a motel available, and the only one that wasn't $300 a night and was fairly close to where we needed to go, I booked. We even joked about it being a roach motel, but the photos on the website of the motel were nice, and the ratings weren't too terrible, seemed to be a really nice place.

We met up in Jacksonville, had some lunch and then headed over to the motel to check in and change after our long drives.  I pull into the parking lot and immediately turned around, called her and said, NOPE! This motel was awful, there were people hanging out on the balconies, not very nice looking people either, it looked run down, there seemed to be a lot of commotion going on, people playing music loudly, etc....just not a nice place. So we drove around for awhile to try to see if we could find something else, all of the places around that area were about the same, apparently we managed to find the bad part of town.

Now realizing the concert was just about to start and we were both not ready, we decided to try to find somewhere to change, which ended up being in the back seat of my car in the back of an empty building, that was a fun time! 

Now that we were all ready to go we headed to the concert, it started pouring down rain, so we decided to stop and get ponchos, which once we had, the rain completely stopped! 

We decided to leave my sisters car in a parking garage because the price to park at the concert was insane! Once we parked, we headed to the concert, which was really awesome! We had a blast but decided to leave early to avoid getting stuck in the crowds.  Which was a great idea, we managed to get out of there and back to my sisters car without any traffic. 

Once we were back on the road and on our way to her house, since she only lived about an hour away and we were unable to find another motel, everything seemed fine until she called and said that we had accidentally taken I10 instead of I95 which meant we would have to back track to 295 to get back on the road we needed to be on! Let me tell ya.....this trip was definitely one for the books! LOL.

Anyway, we finally get back on the road and are now starving! So we decide to stop into Dennys, breakfast at 1am was sooo good and the staff was really nice. We finally made it back to her house and got some rest.

The next day consisted of us shopping and hanging out until it was time to head back to the concert. This time we didn't have any problems, thank goodness, and we ended up going back to the same Dennys we had gone the night before, the same crew was working and we made a few new friends with them, they were nice, and funny and kept us laughing.

All in all it was a good trip! It was the first time I had gone away somewhere without my kids, just me and my sister, It was an experience I will never forget!
  

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