Back to the "Real World"

Well we are finally back from the mountains...Wow, we had a blast ! Keira Ann was sick a few days and ran a low grade fever, but once we got some motrin in her she was fine...Now that we are home (you guessed it, NO FEVER) so anyways, we enjoyed our much needed vacation with Darrin's brother Brian, and his family...Heather is one of my best friends so its always nice to get away and spend some time with her. 

There was so much to do but one of our favorite things to do was to go to cades cove, BUT they were closed due to construction... Im figuring they are fixing the road though there...who knows, so we didnt get to go there. We did how ever go to Gatlinburg, we shopped and stopped in to visit the Ripley's Aquarium...it was gonna cost over 50 bucks  for all 4 of us to go, BUT since Darrin and I had our Military ID's we got in for 3.99 and the girls got in for 1.99....I mean how awesome was that. So that way i didnt feel guilty about  getting something "over prised" in the gift shop for the kids...

Lets see, we also Hiked up a mountain and We are still feeling the pain today from it... the Water Fall was beautiful. There was a sign that said " DANGER Falling deaths have occured, closely control children..High vertical drop offs ahead along trail at falls area."  haha, I had to take a photo of the kids hanging all over that sign...but for real~ There were area's that there was no slant down, it was literally a DROP OFF... i took pictures but you cant even tell..so im not gonna share them.. All 8 of us headed up for a photo op, then back down...

When we were leaving we saw a momma bear and her baby...YES!  I was hoping to see some kind of wild life, even if it was just a snake or something, LOL... These guys were just hanging out right off the road so we pulled over along with everyone else and broke the camera back out and started shooting... they were not very close to each other, so I dont have any photos of them together. Oh well maybe next time ill see more. We also went to one of the mini golf courses to play, and Drove ALLLLL the way to cherokee to eat at a burger king, only to decide it wasnt that great, Cherokee, NOT the burgerking....LOL... so we headed back....

Oh and there was this Biker that would NOT get out of the middle of the road. I called him lance, and I seriously thought darrin was gonna run him over. there were times that I couldnt see his back tire cause darrin got so close to him, and instead of riding on the white line he was all over the road...FYI:  IF YOUR A BIKE RIDER... YOU DONT OWN THE ROAD... GET OVER, dang...

Oh yeah, we also took my nephew to where his cross country friends were staying. It was a Pent house for sure, on the TOP of a mountain. the view was amazing. We had to dive zig zag up the mountain and actually spun a tire at one point..you could see the strip in Pigion Forge, The house has windows allll the way around it and EVERY bedroom faced the sun rise, Oh and let me add that it slept 24 and had 7 bathrooms, a HUGE living room, with bar, kitchen, fireplace, pool table, and lounge area, flat pannel TV above the fire place. it was Heaven !!!

Bottom line, our vacation couldnt have been more perfect (EXCEPT for the Well  water we had to bathe in) EKKKKK....I took Well over 1000 photos not including the ones darrin and clara belle took... Ill have to share them with ya some time soon !!!  Back to the real world... I hate unpacking, putting away, washing clothes, and spring cleaning... good thing clara is on her spring break...she can intertain Keira Ann while I try and get some of this done.....Bye for now !!!