Gatlinburg!!!!!!

The River at the picnic area for Chimney

Yesterday we got into Gatlinburg and went tubing down the river.  It was a blast! I got just a bit ( maybe a lot) sun burnt and also bashed my knee on a rock but had a great time we spent the entire afternoon there.

View of the river from the first bridge on the trail

View from Chimney Tops

Today we woke up actually fairly early considering the fact that we didn’t actually leave the house until 11am.  Danielle, Natalie, Noah, Joey and I went on a hike up to the Chimney Tops in the National Park.  It’s a four mile round trip hike.  At the bottom it didn’t seem like it would be that bad…. Yeah about that.  The second mile was deathly!  Then once you actually made it to the top of the trail you had to scale your way up a rock face to get to the chimneys.  It was an adventure that for sure.  However, we didn’t even see the chimneys (opps) we were too busy taking pictures of the view.  The way down pretty steep and I managed to only roll my ankle once!!!

Me at the top of the Chimney Tops

Once we got off the trail we went of the road to New Found gap I think it is right at the state line between North Carolina and Tennessee.  Great views but we were all so tired we just sat in the care for like five minutes before we moved :)

Tomorrow we are going to ZORB and WonderWorks. Should be a good day again!