Day Six Fall Break

Day 6 Fall Break
Saturday Smokey Mountain Style

Let me tell you our drive was horrendous! My map quest directions said that it would take five hours to drive from Hilton Head, SC to Smokey Mountains hotel. Well it took us eight! Our kids were not fairing well. Matt barely made it. We arrived around midnight. Luckily our hotel was right at the exit.

In my planning I had broken our trip up into halfway points and this was our halfway point home. Not knowing how the beach would go both weather wise and if the kids would take to salt water I wanted us to get some water time in. We made plans to go to an indoor water park in Gatlinburg.

 

This was such a perfect and relaxing day. After our shock of the long drive the night before we let the kids sleep in and made our way into the heart of Gatlinburg. It was a very cold day and a shock to our beach weather bodies, but a thick jacket was all we needed to get us to the warm greenhouse feeling of the water park.

 I think you can tell the Murphys are having a great vacation.

It was very relaxing knowing that both Adaline and Corbin swim very well and we needn't worry about them in the pool. Unfortunately they were two inches too short for the water slide. They wouldn't even let Matt go down with them. Such a bummer but Corbin fell in love with the hot tub and managed.

 As you can tell everyone got along so well. We didn't have any trouble all week. Thank God for our family and the time He blessed us with this week.

We went out on the town that night and grabbed Italian, ice cream and popcorn. The kids were in heaven. I loved the ice cream - remember 5 months pregnant.  :)

What a perfect week.