march 23- fontana lodge day two

Today was my second day staying at the fontana lodge. And it was a really fun day too. Woke up around 10am. packed my stuff, ate breakfast, and checked out of my room around 11. Me and dj planned to stay one more night, but wanted to find more people to share a room with so itd be cheaper. Also, wet dog and sugargnome were leaving, and they had helped split the room last night. Dj knew that sarah was splitting a room with 3 more people, so he asked her and we joined into that room. Making it that 7 people would be splitting a hotel room that only had 4 bed spaces. So 3 of us will sleep on the floor. Once we had that settled, we just chilled in the lobby for a while, reading. I quickly got bored and went to the event room. Where there was a local member of the cherokee tribe giving a history of the cherokee along with a question and answer session. After that i played cornhole with some other hikers.it was me and guard against hey everybody and lucas. Cornhole is a game where you throw beanbags across a room and try to get them into a hole in a platform. Me and guard won. After that the hotel showed a movie "the life of pi" so i got a bag of popcorn and watched that. On a side note, guard told me that freight train has dropped out because of problems with his legs, but he might join back up sometime down the trail. The movie ended around 5pm. I went to the lobby and spoke to some people for an hour or so. A bluegrass band was supposed to come play around 7pm, but the event coordinator, jp, said they had cancelled. So he set up his ps3 and we played guitar hero for about an hour and a half. When that ended, a group of us went to the game room, where me and guard played a round of foosball and pool agaisnt clever girl and apollo. Everyone has heard of clever girl because they made a birthday party for her at the shelter, the fontana hilton. I didnt go to that because i was staying at the lodge, and i didnt want to walk the 3 miles back in the dark. Shes hiking with her husband, dump truck. After that we all went back to the room and had a beer and just chilled. Eventually we decided to check out the bar and get some food. We stayed there until they closed and threw us out at around 1030pm. Now were in the room. My sleeping bag and pad is set up on the floor. Tomorrow me and dj will try to hitchhike to knoxville. If we cant get a place to stay we can camp out in the woods there, or find some hidden spot to sleep. Itll be like being homeless for a day. Ive always wanted to try that. Besides, We dont have a place to stay until monday night.