Our 3rd Anniversary!!

As Friday morning (4/15), I knew that we were going to be celebrating our 3rd anniversary by going out of town somewhere and that's all I knew. Brian planned a surprise getaway for us, and I was very excited. I found out on the drive out of Atlanta that we were going to Tennessee near Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Brian had rented a cabin up there for us for the weekend. :)

This was our front porch, complete with rocking chairs.

This was the view out our back porch.

When we got there Friday night, we put a pizza and appetizer in the oven and unpacked. Brian surprised me with a 1 pound bag of Skittles (favorite) and with the information that he had picked this cabin/resort because there was a spa we could go to, if we wanted. :) Then we popped in a movie and enjoyed our pizza and spinach artichoke dip.

Brian had surprised me AGAIN and borrowed Disney's Tangled for us to watch. I had been wanting to see it! We had a very relaxing Friday night.

We even had a pet squirrel for the weekend :)

Saturday morning we woke up and decided to go on a hike at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Well Brian made muffins for breakfast first, then we went out for the hike.

We went to Rainbow falls.
It was 2.7 miles uphill to the waterfall (5.4 miles round trip), and it was a gorgeous day to be out in the park. The first part of the hike was beside a creek/river.

Then we got to cross the river/creek about 3 or 4 times.

At this point (thanks to the heavy rains the day before) we had to swim across. Well not really, but it was fun trying to decide which rocks to cross over on.

Then at other points there were these nice man-made bridges.

But we made it!

We enjoyed a packed lunch up here and then headed back down to the car. We kind of made our own routes back down. :)

We also saw this cool guy under the water.

After our hike we went into Gatlinburg. Oh, good ole downtown Gatlinburg. :) We drove through Pigeon Forge and they have an upside down house

and the Titanic (iceberg and all) along with lots of other carnival/touristy things.

We wandered around and also played mini gold at "Adventure Golf", complete with pirates, dinosaurs, and alligators!

As you can see behind me, we were held up, so we had some fun taking pictures.

Brian, in the "jungle".

Brian humored me and took a picture with the other alligator.

Saturday night Brian took me out to a nice place called The Peddler. It was a neat steak house where there Peddler comes to your table to "sell" you your steak and shows you the cut you'd be getting.

Us outside the Peddler.

That night, unfortunately we ran into a unwanted adventure. Stay tuned for post #2 for that story and more pictures.