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The fourth of July is also Hubby's birthday. The previous night while he was outside grilling, Miss Kitty baked turtle brownies for his "cake" compliments of Betty Crocker. When he woke up we fired up 40 candles, sang happy birthday, and gave him his present. (The book)
He wasn't up for sweets for breakfast, so he fried an egg while we munched on his birthday brownies. (We are ALWAYS up for sweets!)
This was his day. His plan was to spend the entire day exploring the Smoky Mtn. National Park. I was still thinking about the outlet stores but kept quiet and ended up having a marvelous time in the "wilderness." We stopped several times along the river, skipping stones and wading.
We found a campground with a store and bought peanut butter, bread, and chips for lunch. I don't know why we didn't pack a lunch???
We took a driving (some walking) tour of Cade's Cove, a valley enclosed by mountains in which there was a community from the early 1800's until the 1930's. There we saw a bear with her cub about 20 yards off the road. We stayed in our car but filmed it on the video camera. We stopped at various points in Cade's cove to see original log cabins, churches, barns, and cemeteries. At one stop, we walked through a mini village. There Boo Boo estatically spotted a rat snake. There was also a great spot to wade in the river, creek, stream, not really sure what it was.
On the ride back we stopped at a swimming hole the local people refer to as the "Y" People were jumping off the side of a cliff, wading, and floating in tubes. It was very crowded, but the mom in me felt much safer from the wildlife in this congested area, than in some of the previous secluded parts we had stopped.
We made it back to the cabin that night around 6pm. We through some burgers on the grill and made corn on the cob. By 7 pm we had caught our breath and decided to forgo searching out a fireworks display and head into Pigeon Forge for... |
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