Road Trip Part 3: Forging for Pigeons
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We woke up at 10:30 later in the morning (hey, that's barely 6 hours of sleep), and chose a pancake house for breakfast/lunch in Pigeon Forge. I tried corn meal pancakes. I LOVE cornbread and corn, so I'm glad I tried them, but they are really too dry for pancakes. It was neat to put honey on them instead of syrup.
Outside the Pancake House, we saw a HUGE mosquito hawk. We had been taking way too many pictures and felt like complete tourists, so we figured we should also take a picture of him.
We had plenty of options, but Joe generously chose to take me to Wonder Works - a museum / theme park (for kids). One cool part was a bathroom in a crowded hallway with a big window. When you locked the door, the glass became opaque so that you couldn't see through it. We also got to look like astronauts!
We went back to Gatlinburg and walked around some of the shops. Joe bought some awesome blueberry crumble coffee, and we bought a chocolate cake for later that night. We had read about the cake shop in the New York Times, so we expected greatness.
We then drove along the border of the Great Smokies National Park to Cosby. The park is known for its waterfalls, but we did not get to see any of them. You have to hike to see any of them, and the shortest hike near where we were was 1.2 miles (each way). Unfortunately, we just didn't have time. We did see some beautiful streams, though
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We had been monitoring the temperature predictions all week, and the expected low for our night of camping in the mountains varied from 32 - 46 degrees. While eating cold salads with cold chicken for dinner wasn't the best idea, the chocolate cake was delicious. We built a big campfire and stayed warm until it was time to put it out and go to sleep. We had lots of blankets, so it wasn't too cold for us that night.
We woke up at 10:30 later in the morning (hey, that's barely 6 hours of sleep), and chose a pancake house for breakfast/lunch in Pigeon Forge. I tried corn meal pancakes. I LOVE cornbread and corn, so I'm glad I tried them, but they are really too dry for pancakes. It was neat to put honey on them instead of syrup.
Outside the Pancake House, we saw a HUGE mosquito hawk. We had been taking way too many pictures and felt like complete tourists, so we figured we should also take a picture of him.
We had plenty of options, but Joe generously chose to take me to Wonder Works - a museum / theme park (for kids). One cool part was a bathroom in a crowded hallway with a big window. When you locked the door, the glass became opaque so that you couldn't see through it. We also got to look like astronauts!
We went back to Gatlinburg and walked around some of the shops. Joe bought some awesome blueberry crumble coffee, and we bought a chocolate cake for later that night. We had read about the cake shop in the New York Times, so we expected greatness.
We then drove along the border of the Great Smokies National Park to Cosby. The park is known for its waterfalls, but we did not get to see any of them. You have to hike to see any of them, and the shortest hike near where we were was 1.2 miles (each way). Unfortunately, we just didn't have time. We did see some beautiful streams, though
.
We had been monitoring the temperature predictions all week, and the expected low for our night of camping in the mountains varied from 32 - 46 degrees. While eating cold salads with cold chicken for dinner wasn't the best idea, the chocolate cake was delicious. We built a big campfire and stayed warm until it was time to put it out and go to sleep. We had lots of blankets, so it wasn't too cold for us that night.Labels: What's Happened
posted by kathryn at 10:30 PM
1 Comments:
I loved seeing the road trip pictures for the second time!
They are even more entertaining each time that they are viewed.You bring a new understanding and dimension to vacation photos.
Now whether all of us want to delve into the new dimension is another story, but at least you are there!
MOM Peebles
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