Gatlinburg Weekend

On October 16 we headed up to Gatlinburg for a long weekend with the Colburn family. The weather was a little rainy but it had started turning cooler so it really made it feel like fall. On Thursday we took Tyler to ride some kiddie rides in Pigeon Forge. He went on his first go cart ride with Grampy which I think scared him a little. He loved riding the carousel with Grammy but I think his favorite were the airplanes. He is definitely his daddy's little boy! Tyler had a wonderful weekend despite a fall that left his face a bit scraped up. He loved spending so much time with his cousin Elle and friends Kylie and Bailey Root. As you can see in some of the pictures below, Tyler and Kylie couldn't get enough of each other!

Having fun at breakfast with Elle

One of the highlights of the trip was seeing a real black bear on Saturday night. We were driving out of the parking lot from dinner with Ryan, Jen, Jeff, Tach and the kids and someone spotted a black bear having his own dinner in the dumpster a few feet away from our car. We stopped the car and watched him for 5-10 minutes until he was finished and walked back up through the parking lot and sidewalk where we had just been - definitely exciting and a little bit scary to think we could have run into him just a few minutes before! The pictures below are a little blurry but you can see the image of the bear right in front of the white van and beside the dumpster.

Saying goodbye to Kylie after breakfast at the Pancake Pantry