Our destination was Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend an Institute of Basic Life Principles (IBLP).  We had a reservation for a suite to accomodate all seven of us.  We thought that on the way to NC we would stop over in Booneville, Kentucky, to visit Pastor Keith and Amy, and some of our campers.  We figured that we could just "wing this" and find a place to stay when we got there.  This did not turn out to be as simple as we had thought.

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When we arrived in the vicinity of Booneville, it was a real challenge trying to figure out where we would stay.  Some economical hotels had rooms that smelled strongly of smoke.  Then we checked out the cabins, as this was in the Cumberland State Park area.  This resulted in a lot of humor for some of us.  The first cabin we checked out was beautiful - but it was on a mountain and dh didn't like climbing mountains in a mini-van.

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The second cabin we checked out was situated at the end of a lonely cul-de-sac. It looked isolated, and relatively abandoned.  It looked totally unappealing.

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Finally, before the day was entirely spent trying to find a place to stay, we came upon this adorable little house that a bed and breakfast rented out.  I thought this house was cute, charming, and gave us lots of room to spread out. The proprieter only charged us $80.00 for this three bedroom bungalow!

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 This is the dirt road we drove to get up to the house.

 We have taken many vacations touring through the hills of Kentucky, and I always loved looking at the charming little homes that would dot the country side.  I thought it was really neat to be actually staying in one now!

Some of the campers joined us and spent the night with Rachel.  They had a lot of fun!

 The morning view was so pretty as we looked down from our porch in the light fog.

This is a picture of the kids getting ready to go into the old church building, nestled in the valley of the Cumberland mountains.

We stopped at a restaurant to eat breakfast on the way out of Kentucky.  I couldn't help but take a picture of the sign of this restaurant called, Buckaroos.