Debbi and I had talked about going to SPA-SIX this year in Freeport ME, as neither of us had been before, so she somehow managed to talk a couple of friends into going with us. We decided that we would go up on Saturday really early and spend the day. Then she twisted some arms and got everyone to agree to stay over til Sunday. So, we made room arrangements for Saturday night, and agreed to meet early Saturday and drive up in one car. Makes sense, right?
We decided to take Kat's vehicle because it's BIG (yes, I called your car FAT!) and the spinning wheel would fit easily. All plans are made, no problems, right? Sure. Until Mother Nature heard about them and threw a storm our way...lots of snow for Saturday. HAH! We decided to go up on Friday! And off we went!
We got there too early to check in, so we thought we would go find the Hilton Garden Inn where the vendors were and do some shopping. The cool feature in Kat's car is the voice-activated GPS system, which tells you where you are and how to get where you're going if you let it. We knew the name of the hotel we wanted, but there was no street address listed anywhere in the SPA paperwork, so Sylvia the mapping system was not very helpful there. We did know that the two hotels were not far apart from each other and we had found the first one, the Harraseeket Inn, so we set out following the map (in the car) to find the other. Freeport is not that big.
The map basically showed that we had to go around the corner and over a set of railroad tracks to get to the Hilton, so we drove up Route 1 and took a right. Hmmm. No sign of a hotel. Maybe it's up a little further. Where were the railroad tracks? Okay, drive a little more. There are the tracks! On the map. Take another right. There's nothing here. Trees. Snow. Lots of trees and snow. Are there moose??? Watch for moose!!! Look, there's a moose!!!!!! (Have you ever seen a blond moose? No? It looks remarkably like a horse!) Drive some more. What's behind us??? A giant snowplow!! Turn here and let him pass. He's following us!!!! Yikes!! We are in Maine in a near-blizzard in the middle of nowhere surrounded by trees and blond moose and snow being chased by a possessed snowplow!!!! Can you say Stephen King?????
And where are the damn railroad tracks????? Drive some more. Look at Sylvia's map. What the heck is that? The road on the map stops. That's right, it just stops. 
Right there. In the snow. And the trees. And the giant rampaging snowplow right behind us!!!!! What do we do?????? Lets keep driving!!!! Through that gate that someone forgot to close! What's in here??? Let's go see!!!!
More snow!!!!! 
And STILL more snow!!! 
At that point, I was having visions of having to push the car out of the 10 inches of snow, just to get anywhere near a road! (We made Kat actually turn around, which we all know is NOT A ROUND TRIP!!!)
Eventually we made it to the Hilton, and commenced shopping, and a fine time was had by all!
