At the beginning of June we took a trip for our anniversary and kinda made it the baby moon as well. We decided to go back to pigeon forge and gatlinburg which is where we had gone for our honeymoon. It was fun to go back and do some of the things we had done then and also do some new things. The mountains were so pretty!
You can faintly see the mountains in this picture. There was construction in this spot two years ago too!
First up we had to eat at bojangles. This may well be the tradition now whenever one ventures far enough into the southeast and there are bojangles present you HAVE to go. Chicken , bobisquits,dirty rice and sweet tea ( unless you are unsouthern in regard to sweet tea like me)
We were gonna try to rent the same cabin we stayed in on our honeymoon, but it was bought as a private residence. But the one we chose was really cute. It was a loft cabin. The bedroom and a bathroom and jacuzzi was upstairs and then downstairs was a creepy bathroom, the living room, and the dining room and kitchen. There was also a deck with a hot tub. The really cool thing was it had a pool table. We had a tournament going on throughout our whole trip. Bryce won. 16-15.
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This is a scorpion. He is about 2 inches long. Fortunately he is dead. They fumigate for these things down here. My friend Lauren lives in South Carolina and she had talked about having them where she was. I was skeptical, but now I know! We saw a total if 2 dead and one dying from the effects of fumigation. We put him out of his misery.
There was an outlet mall with a Carter's and an osh kosh bgosh so we got a few things.
This is the narrow little driveway/road going down from our cabin.
We spent some time driving around in Smokey Mountain National Park and drove through some tunnels, saw a waterfall, found some old working gristmills, and there was also an old farmstead you could walk around.
This is the chicken house at the farm we went to.
Ours is a little higher class I guess....
We took one night and got all gussied up and went out to the Little Tokyo hibachi grill that we had gone to two years ago. It was just as yummy as we remembered ! Then we got ice cream.
Down in pigeon forge there are lots of shows. We hadn't ever been to one down there before so we picked the Lumberjack Feud. It was amazing! It's focus was on timbersports athletes. They got out the huge two man buck saws, did the log roll, climbed these tall 90 foot poles with only a rope and those little spikes on their boots, chopped on a log that was between their feet, and all kinds of other daring and probably dangerous stunts. While you watched the show you ate dinner. It was a lot of fun.
This is just a sampling of the pictures of all we did. We went mini golfing, ate yummy breakfasts and dinners, saw a bear, drove through cades cove and saw a bunch of old houses and churches, went to the Christmas store and worlds largest knife store, did some antique shopping, slept in, and had an all around wonderful time :)
