VACATION Part 1

We have had the opportunity over the past few months to take a few fun vacations with the family.  In April my sister and her Fiancee' were headed to Gatlinburg, Tennessee and we got the opportunity to travel with them for part of the trip.  In May with my sister and her Fiancee' we took a fun trip camping at Badin Lake and going to the Asheboro Zoo.  Then some very good and generous friend of ours the Millers invited us to join them on their family trip to Myrtle Beach, SC over the week of the 4ht of July.  More about the other 2 trips later.  Lets catch up with our 1st trip in April to Tennessee.  We took this trip last year with just Laura and James and left the kids with my parents for a nice early anniversary getaway.  This year we decided the kids would love to go on the trip with us.  I think this may be an every year trip to check out different attractions in the area!!!

In Gatlinburg we took the kiddos to see the Aquarium, Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, they enjoyed the Mirror Maze several times, and we even fit in some put put golf which they seemed to really enjoy.  It was a nice long weekend getaway and you can't beat the mountain scenery. The weather was fantastic slightly warm days and cool nights.  It was a relief from the warmer spring weather we were already experiencing in NC.  The kids traveled well and really enjoyed the hotel stay.  I think that is their favorite part of any trip we go on.  The ask often to stay in a hotel I guess it must be a pretty cool thing for them.  The Aquarium in my opinion was the best part of the trip but ti could be that I really love penguins and they have some of the cutest penguins around!!!  We enjoyed the mirror maze several times because the kids wanted to keep doing it over and over and they will let you go as many times as you want on the same paid day.  The Ripley's Museum is pretty neat they have a lot of really interesting oddities all packed into one place.  You are surely guaranteed to not be bored.  Usually I am not a fan of mini golf mostly because I have ZERO hand eye coordination.  However, taking the little ones was A LOT of fun and they LOVED mini golf.  Which means I see a lot more bad golf playing in my future.  We ate at some really great place one of which was my favorite The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.   Who doesn't love Forrest Gump?  The restaurant was very touristy and kinda cheesy but since I really love the movie Forrest Gump I found it quite endearing.  The shrimp of course was VERY yummy.   Don and I actually laid in bed and watched Forrest Gump last night <3   Anyway, the trip was  lot of fun and the kids enjoyed it.