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PaPa & MiMi graciously took our family and Ben's brother's family to Pigeon Forge for the week of Oct. 15th-22nd. We stayed in a beautiful 3 story log cabin. Ben and I stayed in the loft and this was the view from our bed. It was breathtaking until the sun rose every morning at 6:15ish!!!
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The living room on the main level. We had a night of karaoke.
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Ben and his brother took all of the kids trout fishing. Z caught two!
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M caught one.
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C caught one.
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We had the most AMAZING breakfast at the Apple Barrel. YUM!!!
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M and her sidekick LJ
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PaPa and J and J
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My brother-n-law, sis-n-law, & MiMi
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PaPa and all of the grandkids.
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Excited riding the trolley to Dollywood.
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M and C riding the Sky Rider
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C walking the tight ropes on Adventure Mountain
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C, M, and Dad
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Our baby birds
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Relaxing after a LONG day at Dollywood.
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Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg.
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M and Z in the fish tank
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Beautiful jellyfish
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Penguin Playground
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The largest chair in the world at Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum.
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Our visit to Cade's Cove..........Wow!
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Wildlife everywhere we looked.
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We saw a momma bear and 3 cubs climb down a tree and walk off into the woods. It was getting dark and I didn't have enough light to get good pictures of them all together. It was the kids 1st time to see bear in the wild and Bens' too!
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There were deer around every curve.
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Another "cold" day at Dollywood.
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Ben and C on the far right riding the Barn Stormer.
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Z and I having a little mommy-daughter time being silly.
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M on the rope pull thing???
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