This past Sunday I got the opportunity to see both the sunrise and sunset in the same day. If you know me, you'll probably know that this doesn't happen a lot. I enjoy sleeping in so barely make it awake before sunrise. A group of friends invited me to go to the Tallulah Gorge State Park and promised it would be a good time. I said sure and then got the details, we had to leave by 5:30am. Apparently the park only gives out 100 permits per day to descend to the gorge and in busy season, they run out. We drove the hour and a half to the state park, watched the sunrise on our way and got to the park around 7:00AM. We had to wait until 7:30AM for the gates to open so while we waited we danced in the parking lot with some kids that were waiting in the car in front of us. When we finally got inside the park, we got in line to actually get our permit. I was happy we had arrived so early because the permits ran out very quickly (thank goodness our friends made us go so early!).
We spent the day hiking through the waterfalls, hanging out at the gorge (and watching our friends and others slide down the waterfalls into the gorge) and hiking back. We were all exhausted by the time we got back to our cars for the drive home but it was a really fun day. I watched the sunset later that day around 8PM and fell asleep almost immediately after, I almost didn't make the sunrise and sunset in the same day!
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