And so began our hiking day...First stop...Laurel Falls. 1.75 miles of glorious uphill path with various cracks and holes to help slam the stroller into your gut as your legs are burning with intense pain, pain that only comes when you decide to hike up 1.75 miles of glorious....
Below shows Magan pushing the stroller as she did for 0.045 miles of the track. :) The falls were beautiful, and a great place to rest awhile. Granddaddy and Sam hiked to the bottom, later to be joined by me and Davis. And I don't understand the fascination, but it is still so fun to touch the water at the bottom of the falls.
On the trip back down, as usual, Davis' legs started to hurt, and Granddaddy came to the rescue carrying him the last part of the way. We next traveled to a smaller motor loop that also had this smaller 0.75 walking trail. This was a great trail and a little more easier. Sam helped that little sister everytime there was a difficult place for her to cross. And as we made it to the end of the trail, we found a SNAKE...As Sam said "The first real live snake not in a zoo".
After church on Sunday was a day of fun times with bubbles, then playing in the river. The boys played in that river for hours. Probably would have been good to have my camera to capture some of that, but I can guarantee that those pictures would have been full of smiles from my Dave sitting in the river on the rocks and serious looks from my Sam building dams with his Granddaddy.
I love my wife, cause making her laugh, makes me laugh, and she's fun to laugh with. Our trip came to an end, not ready to leave, but knowing we must, we took some last pictures and headed to the house. Davis with a new big bear, Belle with a baby bear, Sam with a big bear hidden behind his navigator map, and Mom without her pillow (which was probably left somewhere near this Smoky Mountains sign), and Dad with a 5 hour energy drink making random Louis Armstrong trumpet noises.
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