Our vacation was the best yet.  We started out from central Illinois (where everything is flat) and headed south to Garden of the Gods and Cave In Rock.  They lie near Elizabethtown on the Illinois/Kentucky border.

There we hiked on trails to the top of beautiful rock formations overlooking forests and grassland.  It truly is a garden of God.  I wonder what it must look like looking down from heaven.

At Cave In Rock we followed a trail along the Ohio river's edge to a cave that legend has it hid Indians, pirates and even Jesse James.

This day of nature exploration took us a little off course, but it allowed us to cross the Ohio river on a ferry, (which the girls loved) and on a scenic 40 backroad drive to get back to the interstate.

We spent the night in a hotel outside of Nashville where we rested up.  The girls got to go swimming in the pool before we headed back on the road.

We made it to Sieverville the next day about 1pm but sat in traffic for nearly 2 hours slowly making our way from Sieverville through Pigeon Forge, and on to Gatlinburg where our cabin in the mountains awaited us...

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