Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Spring Break in the Smokies

I haven't really made an official announcement here on the blog, but the Guess family is moving to North-West, Arkansas. We will be headed out this summer, sometime after school is out. Despite the craziness of preparing a family of 5 to move across the country, we decided to take a quick spring break trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee and spend some times exploring the Smokey Mountains.
Our friends, The Sphires, joined us and we had an absolute blast. The weather was cool, but fine with a jacket. We left crazy early on Sunday morning and were in the mountains hiking by 10am.

The scenery is gorgeous and the kids had so much fun exploring in the mountains. They preferred not to stay on the trails, but instead to explore creeks!
Straight from the car to the woods.
The whole crew.
My personal favorite part of any trip to the south, Zaxby's!!! I had my fried chicken fix twice in 3 days. While this crew was sharing shakes, I was happily eating my chicken.
They always get the Birthday Cake Shake. It doesn't last long.
Our hotel had lots of board games in the lobby. The kids always started here playing games and eating breakfast in the morning. Then in the evening they had hot chocolate and popcorn. We would swim and then head there for a bedtime snack. 

1 comment:

lil' mama said...

Arkansas! Congrats! :)

I love the smokie mtns and did many trips as a kid to Gatlinburg.