Back From the Mountains!

BJ and I just got home last night from an awesome trip to the Smoky Mountains. We had a really great time hanging out with Jeremy and Jessica and meeting their friends. We also got addicted to Dance-Dance-Revolution! We are so bad about exercising, so maybe this will get us going!

On Monday we headed down to Gatlinburg to shop at the outlets and hike up to Grotto Falls (which was beautiful) with Jeremy and Jessica. Later BJ and I checked in to our hotel in Gatlinburg and had a really nice anniversary dinner at the Peddler in Gatlinburg.

On Tuesday BJ and I tackled a much larger and steeper hike, for which we are now paying! Here's us at the bottom, getting ready to hike.... (for the full effect, turn the volume up!)


Here's some photos of us as we stopped to rock-hop on the way up...





On Tuesday we also headed through the park to North Carolina and the Cherokee Indiana Reservation to hike up to Mingus falls - so total on our trip we visited KY, TN, and NC!

Today BJ and I are getting to catch up on some much needed projects. We're going to buy a tractor (which is more like buying a car than a lawn mower, as it turns out) and I am going to finally finish the bed I've been working on! Right now our leech line for the septic system is being put in, and we're really happy about it! We've had to be really conservative with our water over the last few months (like not doing laundry here at all). This video is about 5 minutes old...