Vacation 2009

Started out our vacation on Friday morning...June 26th and made it to Grandma Honeycutt's house in Mars Hill, NC. Had LOTS of fun just relaxing and visiting with family. Did some horseback riding at Wolf Laurel Stables and was so excited when grandma H. decided to come along for the fun!

We stayed till Tuesday afternoon and off to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee to a rental cabin (Sterling Springs Resort). We stayed in Wild Thang. Of course, this is where all our activities would take place. Tuesday evening we did some shopping at Gatlinburg. Wednesday we did our white water rafting at Big Creek Expeditions and what a BLAST that was!!!!!! Our guide had some fun with us and we all got wet!!! That evening we shopped at the outlets in Pigeon Forge and found some awesome deals. Thursday morning we did our Ziplining right at Sterling Springs (Wahoo Ziplines). I was VERY mad that I didn't take a camera after I saw some of the people in our party did and got some good shots. It was a little nerve racking for me but after the first time, I got the hang of it and it was AWESOME!!! I was so proud of Gabi. She did a great job and was first in line to go at each zipline. She loved it!!! That afternoon we headed out to Cade's Cove to see if we could catch a bear in the wild. Unfortunately, we caught up to a crowd that said we had just missed a bear with her cub. We caught some good photos of lots of deer though and saw some turkey as well. After our LOOOONGG drive through Cade's Cove we headed over to Splash Country for our after 3pm entry. We checked things out for a couple of hours and headed back to the cabin for some R & R and some games of pool. Friday we headed back to Splash Country for the morning/early afternoon to catch some sun and hit more waterslides. A favorite of all of us...Swift Water Run, the Wild River Falls and The Lazy River of course. We left the waterpark about 2 pm to go back to the cabin and get ready for the Dixie Stampede. What a great activity to end our vacation with. Great show, good food and lots of laughs. No silverware with a whole chicken, pork loin, corn on the cob, baked potato, cream of veggie soup, biscuit and an apple pie. YUMMO!!!! Very sad to have to come home on Saturday but we made it and we ALL agreed it was another GREAT VACATION!!! Just enough rest and relaxation mixed in with some great activity. You can see all our pictures here.