Mike decided he was tired of waiting around for the CWA to strike and said the heck with it, we're going on vacation. So we booked a cabin in the Smoky Mountains and headed out on June 20, with an overnight stay with Mike's brother and family in southeast Missouri. We returned Saturday the 27th. We spent a week in Pigeon Forge and had a great time just getting away, especially considering the heat wave we escaped here. Cabin rental is the way to go when you have kids. The boys had their own bedroom with twin beds, we were upstairs in a master suite, and we had a full kitchen, air hockey table, our choice of gas and charcoal grills, and a hot tub (though we never used it). We lucked into a good deal by booking last-minute.
Here's a quick summary of our vacation:
Sunday: arrived around 5:30, checked in, ate dinner
Monday: Dollywood
Tuesday: Smoky Mountain National Park, including the North Carolina side
Wednesday: Splash Country, dinner at the cabin, Smoky Mountains again
Thursday: WonderWorks, tubing on the river (Mike and Dominick)
Friday: Dollywood
Saturday: drove home
Dominick's favorite part was Dollywood, Mike's was tubing, mine was the Smoky Mountain National Park, and Noel's was throwing rocks into creeks and down steep embankments.
I have almost 300 photos to go through, but I'm planning to post some soon. Right now I'm just thankful to have a working computer again. When we came home, the computer appeared to have died, but Mike took it apart and repaired it last night. Whew!
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Boy 1: Dominick
- DOB: 2/21/2004
- Loves utility markings and covers, cones, signs, creating artwork, mazes, stickers, worms, collecting nature objects, train tracks, books, Thomas, food
Boy 2: Noel
- DOB: 11/6/2006
- Loves Cars (the movie), books, riding his tricycle, Thomas, signs, red diapers, scrambled eggs, copying big brother
The rest of us
- Kelly
- Mom to the aforementioned two boys and keeper of the blog. And let's not forget Mike, the non-blogging dad and husband. But really, it's all about the kids, right?
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3 comments:
Sounds fantastic! I love the Smokies and stayed in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg years ago. Good thing you have such a handy guy around too!
so how did the boys do on the drive? i know that was one of your big concerns.
Pretty good on the way there, but coming back, when we did it all in one day, Noel had had enough of the car. Luckily, he held it together until Illinois. He slept for about 20 minutes and woke up very unhappy. Then Dom started screaming at Noel for crying so much. We were SO ready to be home!
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