Tuesday June 23rd

Pigeon Forge, TN

For our Anniversary we decided to do the Dixie Stampede.

Before the show, we were entertained by this group of talented
and semi famous men. Russ nor I can remember any of their
names, not even the name of the group.
But, they were very good!

This is what you see when you first come in the show room.

Isn't this pretty!? This was behind the big curtain.

I got caught taking pictures,

But I did manage to get a shot of the ending!

On our way back to camp we made a stop at one of our favorite

road side water falls. This is the most water we have seen

from this water fall in the 3 years we have been here.

I should have a picture of it in one of

our older post, try June 2008.

We had a nice day. It was a lot warmer in Pigeon Forge

than it is in Townsend. But, it was a nice day.

HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY Russell

I LOVE YOU!

Tuesday June 23rd

Cades Cove

The reason this is called

THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS

Deer with their velvet

wild Turkey everywhere!

The river, on our way out of the park.

Well, as I said in the last post...

And the story continues....

We have been so excited to hike to the falls in Cades Cove.

Well, we get there this morning and..

IT IS CLOSED!!

We hope to find some water falls that are open to hikers

tomorrow. With all this water, there should be

some pretty good water falls this year.

Oh...Did I mention that today is...

OUR 20th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!!

We went to breakfast this morning at one

of our many favorite places in town,

The Carriage House!

Tonight is dinner at Dixie Stamped.

till then....

Monday June 22nd

Townsend, TN

Well, We made it!

Little River

If you go and look at our post last June, you will see there is

WAY MORE WATER this year!

Also,

WE UP GRADED!!

How do you like our new BIG TENT?

This trip started out GREAT!

Then we get to Maryville...

We took a wrong turn to find our favorite place to eat,

there was a BIG thunderstorm that came through and blasted us for a few minutes,

Russ went into Walgreen's to get some things we needed,

the lightning took out their power and it was going to be a while for the computers to come back on, so he put his stuff down and left. Next door was a Target and I had a $5 gift card I won at work, so I used that for some of the things we needed and then we were back on the road.

We get to camp, Not the spot we thought we had reserved! This isn't a bad spot, but there was suppose to be GRASS!!! We took a mental note last year and thought this one had more grass then what it does. AND... the spot is just a little to small for our new tent!

Well, that's not all... We are putting up the tent and guess what??? IT BRAKES!

I had to go to the family dollar store and get a sewing kit and a hammer!

That will stay in our camping box we have started a few years ago.

So, I fix the tent, we get it up and then we get everything out of the car and into the tent...

We borrow an air bed from Michele (Russell's sister). Her words were...

"Do not poke a hole in it, we have to use it at Scott's graduation."

Well, guess what?? NO WE DIDN'T poke a hole in it..it was already there!!!

Good thing I brought a patch kit with us, or we wouldn't have had a bed.

We would have had to sleep on the cold tent floor!

Needless to say, we had a very LONG DAY!

and the story continues.......