We spent 5 days in Gatlinburg, TN with Dave’s parents and the kids’ DC cousins (who were probably sick of us by this point but were gracious nonetheless). We stayed close to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and spent most of our days seeing the park. The last time Dave and I were there was a few years before the girls were born.
The first thing we did was this beautiful hike up to Laurel Falls.
Laurel Falls
He’s just the cutest.
Some cousins and Aunt Melissa on the trail. She was a park ranger here years ago.
This is at Newfound Gap in the middle of the park. We had great visibility while we were there. This is looking over the Tennessee side.
We walked a little bit on the Appalachian Trail!
The park straddles NC and TN.
The North Carolina side
Hiking up to the observation tower on Clingman’s Dome.
The tower was kind of amazing.
We had beautiful views in all directions.
We took a little detour to hike a bit more on the Appalachian Trail.
My forest nymph in her element. It was really so gorgeous.
Another beauty on the trail.
This was a little hike behind the visitor’s center.
I think this girl had just scraped her knee.
After all that hiking we needed an ice cream snack. This is a donut ice cream sandwich.
And this is a cotton candy burrito, which is as delicious as it looks.
Three scoops of ice cream wrapped in cotton candy.
We finished off the day with soak in the hot tub. It was a pretty great day.
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