Smoky Mountains Trip

This past weekend we drove to western North Carolina to meet our friends, the Thompsons, and enjoy the outdoors. We shared a posh cabin.
Here is a view of the sunset from the deck:We delighted in having cute little Ruby around on the trip. Here is Cheyney showing her future parenting skills:
The next day went went up to Smoky Mountains National Park and hiked on the Appalachian trail for about 8 miles. We met Trevor and Ruby at the end.
Along the trail we saw a lot of wildflowers...
And berries. We also saw some black bear poop on the trail, which I decided against recording. Bears don't digest berries well.
It was wonderful to be up in nature and be around good friends.

Pre-Christmas Get Away

The weekend before Christmas we went to Boone, North Carolina. Boone is a cute little town in the middle of the Appalachians. It seems to be a mixture of small mountains and tree's, antique shops, and mobile homes. We stayed at a fun lodge about ten miles away from Boone. We don't own a TV and so we were able vedge some with their TV with cable. The highlight of the TV watching was the Cougs pulling out a miracle against UCLA.


On Christmas Eve we got to go snow tubing on artificial snow (for 25$ each!) Here is the sledding run. There is a little airport like conveyor belt that brings you back up. A fun little trip, but it made us miss the Rocky Mountains.