We arrived safety to my parents house, after driving the 6 hours to Ohio.
We stayed the night there and left the next day for Tennessee with my parents. I am so glad that we stayed the night there. T and K did great for the 6 hour trip, but I am not sure how much longer they would have been able to hold out.
We also got to be with my Grandma L. for a day.
There was lots of catching up to do!
Pa-paw and Aunt A. took T. and K. on a ride.
They loved it!
On the way to Tennessee we rode together with Dad and Mom, that helped keep T. and K. busy.
The next day we drove around and looked at the scenery and walked around in Gatlinburg some.
My Brother, Sister and their friends came down the next day.
We stopped at a wooden bridge and took some pictures.
It is so beautiful down there.
Notice T holding K's hand? I didn't even know he was till I looked at the photos later. Kinda awkward... Oh well, it's kinda cute too.
K got to try chocolate ice cream for the first time, and loved it! (can't you tell?)
T really didn't care much for the ice cream, but he enjoyed walking around in the little shop.
Titus and I went hiking on Monday all by ourselves!
My parents took care of T and K for us.
It was the first time that I had been away for K that long. She did really good though!
We had so much fun hiking up to a waterfall, then on up to the top of a mountain.
It was a little over a 8 mile hike.
The big waterfall
Hiking to the top.
I had never been any place like this before. There were shrubs growing up on both sides of the trail, forming a kind of tunnel/canopy over us. We were walking in what looked like a dried up creek bed. (not sure I would have wanted to be there when it rained.)
The trail opened up the farther we went.
It was breathtakingly beautiful!
There were lots of flowers on top and LOTs of bumble bees too!
On the way down we stopped and sat on a log to catch our breath and had a friendly guy sitting
beside us.
When we were hiking back we saw a turkey just walking through the woods. (I got all excited about it and told my family when we got back, and they proceeded to tell us that they had seen a wild mama bear and her two cubs on the drive back to town.) Kind of a bummer for us. Oh well, I am just as glad that we didn't see a bear out there.
I am going to do a second post because there are so many photos that I want to share...
I am sorry if the pictures don't load very fast. I am trying to figure out a way to do a batch edit to downsize the picture quality. I thought it was figured out, but now I am realizing that it's not. :(
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