Smoky Mountains

To celebrate John-David and our other friends graduation, we decided to take a trip down to the Smoky Mountains. We rented a cabin and this was the view from the cabin. Unfortunately our camera was having issues so our pictures of the actual cabin didn't turn out. It was pretty cool though. There were 5 families which equaled 10 adults and 11 kids. We didn't do a ton of sleeping.
Just down from the cabin was a chapel that had this beautiful carriage outside. We took pictures of all the girls in the carriage with Jocelyn's Cinderella dress. Jackson told all the girls that it was actually a jail. They didn't like that too much.

While we were there in the Smokies, we went
on a few hikes. It was so pretty and green.

Jackson loved the large abundance of massive
sticks. I don't know if he was using that
for a hiking stick or a spear.

Here are the happy hikers.

This is the path to the top of Old Smoky.It's not hard to figure out why
they call these the Smoky Mountains.

Our happy family on top of Old Smoky

View of some mountains

We took a tour through Gatlinburg on a trolley.
That was definitely the best way to travel through
the city with kids.

Gatlinburg has a haunted mansion. Year round.
Kind of weird if you ask me.

One of the churches in Cade's Cove. It rained the
entire time we were there. We didn't stop too much.

View of Cade's Cove

After Cade's Cove everyone kind of broke up
and went and did their own thing.
We chose to go to a local city festival.
It was pretty authentic. Of course I had to
get a picture of a smoker in there

I thought this was pretty funny.
This band was practicing in cemetery.

This guy was telling stories. I couldn't
understand a word he said. I think
he was speaking English.

My favorite thing about this whole festival
was that a lot of the older people taps on their shoes.
When music was playing they would just start
clogging or tapping to the music . It was very entertaining.

The whole trip was so fun. I was so glad to have
the opportunity to spend 5 days with our friends.