Gatlinburg Vacation, part 1...

As readers of this blog already know, Josh and I went on vacation last week...it was much needed and very much enjoyed! It was by far the most relaxation either of us has had in a long time...very difficult to leave!! I'm working on my pictures right now, and my time is somewhat limited too, so I'm going to just break it down into vacation "installments". Here are a few from our first day (before I do that, I'll let you know that we ended up leaving early Thursday evening because we just couldn't wait to get away :) - we made it as far as Ft. Payne and stayed at a Holiday Inn Express, and boy did we feel smart!!)


I took these on our way in to Pigeon Forge - The pictures do not do those gorgeous mountains justice...seriously, it looked like a painting!! I kept telling Josh "those mountains are NOT real!"...he kept laughing and assured me they were, and that at no time had someone put up a canopy to fool me.

As nice as it was to get away and just relax for a few days, I was a little bummed because it rained the entire time! Do you see any sunshine in the pics above?? Didn't think so. That's about all of the mountain pics you'll see...we decided to not even drive into the national park, just because it was so yucky.

Once we made it into Gatlinburg, we found our cabin, got settled in and then went back to town to the Hard Rock Cafe - Josh had never been to one before. It was super yummy (gotta get a cheeseburger there!) and our waiter was nice, and extremely silly.

Since those were all of the pics I had for our first day, I'll go ahead and blog some about day two as well.

This begins my pictures of Cobbly Nob and then some of what we did on Saturday...

Most important meal of the day...breakfast! Since we stayed in a cabin at Cobbly Nob, we had FREE breakfast every morning...whatever we wanted!!




This was the entrance to the market...They would even deliver groceries if we wanted!!


Of course anything relating to Coca Cola, I must take a picture...


Isn't this just so quaint...



This was Josh's breakfast...he got the special every morning...

And this beautiful, yummy plate of food was mine!! Can't pass up biscuit and gravy, and definitely not a piece of country ham!!

After we ate, we headed to downtown Gatlinburg. It was so very crowded!! I guess it was spring break all around the southeast. We parked and walked all over. We decided to go to Ripley's Believe it or Not, did the Mirror Maze, the Aquarium and then went to the Wax Museum...oh yeah, and made time for a lemonade and funnel cake!!



Isn't it a beaut!


Daah duh, daah duh, dah duh, dah duh, dah duh!! (That's my theme music from Jaw's :)


We did grab lunch at Bubba Gump's - That's my baby! Like his Captain America shirt that I got him???


I have never felt so tiny in my life :o)


And neither has Josh :o)

Gotta take a break for now...I'll post the rest of Saturday later on.

I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day!!