The Saturday of Spring Break we loaded up our family and hit the road at 3:45am and headed to the beautiful Smokey Mountains!
These boys were excited! And if you are wondering - no, they did not go back to sleep. They stayed awake all day....until (a late) bedtime. They were angels Saturday during our road trip. However, Sunday was a different story - ha!
We were driving along fine, making good time when all of a sudden in Nashville, our check engine light came on and our transmission started acting funny. Long story short - our van needed some major work done on it and we could not continue our trip. Thankfully (and there is so much to be thankful for in this bummer of a circumstance) a dealership was able to work on our van and provide a rental for us to continue on our trip.
The boys were so good while we waited around in our van and in the dealership!
Sunday morning we were up pretty early considering our long day the day before. But we were all excited and ready to explore!
I let the boys have blue hair and they loved it!
Our first stop was Frizzle Chicken for breakfast. It was yummy! But the best part were the names of these "singing" chickens. (At one point, they started moving and singing. It was pretty funny!). They had Michael JordHEN, Kelly CLUCKson, HENry Rogers, Albert EGGstein, CLUCK Kent...to name a few! We enjoyed seeing the names and even tried making up our own 'Frizzle Chicken' names, like JaxHEN. Haha!
After we were all full - we headed up into the mountains to Cades Cove, which is a valley located in the middle of the Smokey Mountains. The cool thing is that it was home to settlers before it became a National Park. We saw some old cabins, churches, barns and other buildings. The boys enjoyed counting all the wildlife we saw along the way. Sadly, no bears.
We stopped a few times to explore and it was so beautiful and nice!
The boys were super brave and put their feet in the water (Mr. Rusty started it) - and from then on, Zane wanted to get in any and all water we came across!
After exploring a bit, we walked a little of downtown Gattlinburg and ate at a Diner. It was so good. Especially the giant Oreo Cake that Jaxen and I split. Nik was supposed to share it with us - but I think he only got a few bites in. Jaxen and I dug in!
The boys ended the night with a bath (to get cleaned up) and then some time in the hot tub!
Stay tuned for more of our get-a-way!
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