Vacation Part 4 - The Aquarium.

The first time that we went to the aquarium with Arianna, she cried all the way. We rushed and did not enjoy as much.  This time, she loved it.  She wanted more.  She did not want to leave.

 She was telling us about the starfish and her house.

 Hello.  Hello.

 One of my favorite animals, the seahorse.  Love them.

 Mike's favorite moment from the entire vacation.  We were sitting next to the huge tank and Ari and him were talking about it.

 A leaf horse?  Wow.  Very impressive.

 Papa and Arianna going through the tunnel.  Arianna's new favorite thing are tunnels!

 Grandma and Arianna enjoying some sharks.

 I rarely get my picture taken since I am the photographer, but I was there :)

 Interesting fish!

 Loved the jelly fish. 

 This looks like a movie coming alive.  The attack of the huge crabs!

 Mollusk?  I think. 

 We were surrounded by huge sharks!

 More fish pictures.

 And then it was us.

 This is a new section from the aquarium - Penguins.

 You can actually touched the manta rays if you want.

 Ended it up our day with some dipping dots ice cream and some Mexican food.

Vacation - Part 3

I bought this kit for Tiffany.  I took the picture so you can see how the put the sparkles.  It was not part of the kit, but I bought the extras because I think it adds so much to the kit.  Here is the picture so you can see it, and decide whether you want it or not.

 This is next to the quilting shop in Cosby, TN.  We also went to an apple farm/ restaurant in Cosby.  The food was decent, the apple fritters were awesome.

 We also found this little restaurant. Apparently they were here for years, but we did not know until this time.  They have a store in the first floor called "The cheese cupboard" and a very small restaurant in the second floor that sells sandwiches (about 6 different ones) plus chips.  The sandwiches were small, but they were very flavorful. 

 Can you tell that it is a German restaurant?

 I was not sure that we were going to see that much change in color since the temperature was still high, but we did.

 Our best tradition yet (in TN anyway).  We always go to Howard's Steakhouse and ordered the Steak for two!  Still great! (Bob tried the trout )

 Arianna felt asleep before her food arrived.  We ate it for her.  Ooops. 

Arianna liked her Titi Evelyn.

 I am not sure what we were doing in this picture, besides breakfast.

 Ron and Evelyn were leaving a day earlier so I was trying to get some family pictures.

 Arianna played really nice with Evelyn.  Hopefully we will see each other in the near future.

 The view from our parking lot.

 The Cabin had a lovely double deck.

Vacation - Part 2

Evelyn and Arianna getting familiar with each other.  She looks great with Evelyn's hat!

 This time Oconaluftee's Farm was a disappointment because it was under construction and they took all the animals, and they were not handicapped accessible and the bathrooms were not closed by and Arianna is toilet trained and she wanted to go and it took us 10 minutes to get there.  If I knew it was in construction, I will have not gone this time.  But, I got these few shoots from the place.

 We were having lunch at Witch's overlook.  Arianna was having fun collecting acorns. 

 The look above us when we were having lunch.

 I think I took this shot when we were going back to the cabin.

Having dinner at Cracker Barrel.  Last time was better, but I still like the biscuits.  

 In our way back to Bob's camp.  It was the foothills parkway.

 Big creek Campground.  It has only 12 sites. 

 My view when Ari and I were trying Bob's cot.

 Goofing around the camera.

 Arianna having some milk.  It was a little chilly.

 Papa and Arianna trying the cot.

 Bob made lunch for us.  Thank you Bob.

 Arianna was just running around and having fun with all the leaves on the ground.

 Trying to capture the different colors in the trees.