Two Little Snowflakes: Vacation!

So we're back from our lovely little Spring Break vacation! We went to Gatlinburg, TN for a couple of nights. It was our first "real" family vacation! Eric and I had been several times before (we even got married there) but hadn't been since the wedding. And we'd been on vacation as a family, but it had always been to visit family, or something like that...not ever on our own! So it was really nice to get away for a few days :)

It only took us about 5 hours to drive - it would have been less, but you know how it is, traveling with kids!

The drive started off well enough...until we saw this. Just what every traveler wants to see!

Luckily the delays weren't too bad. I spent a lot of the drive playing with my camera. I managed to get some pretty good pictures! Especially when you consider that they were taken out of a moving car, with the windows up!

It was so nice to see mountains again...of course, they're not real mountains like I'm used to, but they're better than SC's non-existant mountains!

We got to the cabin and relaxed for a little bit. The cabins are so nice, they're not that expensive, and you get your own little house, hot tub, etc! This was the smallest one we've ever stayed in, but we didn't need anything too big just for us.

It had a king bed downstairs, and a queen sleeper upstairs, where we put Alex.

Looking down from upstairs...poor Carter was so confused where the voices were coming from until he finally looked up!

We headed out to Pigeon Forge for dinner. This Apple Farm restaurant got great reviews, so we went there! While we waited, Alex posed for a few pictures :)

Where are you, Alex??

The apple fritters with apple butter were AMAZING. The rest of the meal was about average...the soup tasted like it came from a can, and the rest of the meal was more or less like something you'd get at a buffet. But it wasn't too expensive, and they gave you a TON of food, so it was definitely worth it!

We made some eggs for breakfast the next morning. We forgot Carter's little on-the-go booster seat, so he had to eat on the floor! Luckily, he didn't seem to mind :)

We got dressed and headed out to catch the trolley into downtown Gatlinburg, rather than drive, try to find parking, then pay $8 to park! The boys had fun posing :)

Alex gets sauced, lol.

We went to this Star Cars museum - Eric and Alex LOVED it! it was a collection of cars from movies and TV shows. Bumblebee, of course, was Alex's favorite!

We got to sit in the car from the Flinstones movie :) Carter took us for a spin!

MINI from the Italian Job...makes me miss my MINI that much more! But mine was yellow and much cuter :)

Poor Alex was so scared of the dinosaur by the Jurassic Park car! He was hiding behind the car, and refused to stand next to Batman, who was across the room.

We visited a moonshine distillery, and of course, bought some :) It's not really moonshine though, since it's legally made! But it was still neat to see. They had a regular one (tasted like vodka, but 100 proof), corn whiskey (I don't like whiskey, but Eric said it tasted like alcoholic corn flakes), and apple pie (suuuuper tasty, and only 40 proof!)