Vacation #2 - Accident and Cade's Cove

In order to save a little money, we took muffins, eggs, and fruit so we could eat breakfast in our room every morning. 

Every morning we ate out on our little third floor balcony. Lily could also fit through these bars too, so we told her she had to stay away from the edge. On this fateful morning, she was being a little disobedient and as Jacob was guiding her away from the edge, she jerked away from him and her head hit the bars, giving her a bruise. As Jacob lunged to catch her, he spilled his coffee on her head and back. Oh, it was awful! We rushed her inside, stripped off her shirt and put ice on the burns. Thankfully the coffee wasn't *that* hot and her back didn't blister.

After getting all cleaned up, she and Jacob went out and read some books. That was definitely not the greatest way to start the day!

We decided to go to Cade's Cove, so we left around 9:30 (it opened at 10). We had no idea that it was going to be a really long drive to get there on curvy, slow-moving roads. At least the kids slept on the way there! 

At Cade's Cove, you basically drive along a one lane road and stop at different old sites (like cabins or churches). We let the kids sit in our laps while we drove to each stop. Lily loved driving!

I think we won't do Cade's Cove again until the kids are older. It was just kind of long for them, partly because there were a ton of people there and we had to drive through sooo slowly, but getting in and out of the hot car got wearing on them (and us). The scenery was beautiful though!

Yes, we carry the potty chair in the car in case we have any sudden needs for it. It definitely came in handy that day!

After we left Cade's Cove, we headed to Pigeon Forge. We went to the Three Bears General Store where they have live bears you can see. 

Lily loved the bears! She still talks about them!

At the General Store, we saw where they were advertising discounted Dollywood tickets. Jacob really wanted to go to Dollywood, but he wasn't really able to justify the nearly sixty dollar tickets plus tax! Anyway, to get the discounted tickets we had to do one of the "tours" for a time share, but they offered us two free tickets to Dollywood. We agreed to do the tour. 

Oh. my. word. it was insane to say the least! The 90 minute presentation turned into like 2 hours because the salesman said he had to have both of our focused attention. Um, hello! How do you do that with two little ones?! After him stopping for me to run Lily to the potty and to go change Levi's diaper, he finally figured out that it was impossible to have both of our attention. We did not buy in to the time share, and I can't tell you how happy we were to finally walk out of there with our free tickets to Dollywood! Jacob and I both agreed that the crazy two hours were worth saving us about $140!

After the long busy day, we headed back to the hotel, got showers and relaxed for the evening!