We stopped at this one. It was a replica of the Titanic with a museum inside of things from the ship. It was quite interesting. Only opened up about 6 weeks ago and had already had 60,000+ visitors.
Ober Gatlinburg. A tram that takes you up to the ski resort and play area. We rode the Alpine slide. They also had a carousel, shops, ice rink, water slide, kiddie rides and another gondola to take you even higher up the mountain. Of course your dad wants to buy a cabin and live here now! See those cabins in the trees...yea, he wants one. I'm not as enamored as he is with the area. Too touristy for me.
Smokey mountains always have this haze on them. Hence the name I guess. It was very pretty but for me, all of Tennessee looks like this. Lots and lots of trees everywhere!!!
It's always funny to me to see signs of the elevation and know we live higher than this!
Walked the appalachian trail at the top of the summit. All I could think of was that poor girl who had been murdered while hiking the trail a few years ago so it wasn't too fun for me.
Those steps would be crazy walking too far on that trail!
Mingus Mill was in the Smokies. There use to be little settlements in the area and this was the place where corn was ground into meal. Grandpa picked up a couple of rocks for Tyson from this river.
A living farm from the 1800's in the Smokies.
Yes...gardens are growing out here and back home, mine isn't even planted!
Thought this was clever. Horseshoes as hinges on the door.
Have yet to see a LDS Church on our trip except the one in Paducah that we attended yesterday but we did find this street sign in Cherokee, NC. It is on the other end of the Smokies from Gatlinburg. The indians were moved out of the Smokies years ago and came back and took some of the land that was theirs back and settled here. Huge casino going up in this town but didn't get a picture.
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Dad is wearing SHORTS! not only that, they look a little bit gangster on him!!
What the heck is that first picture of? A building upside down? Tennessee doesn't know how to make buildings up to code there?
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