Show Us Your Life- Honeymoon

Ok, so I had WAY too many pictures to do the final installment of Kelly's Korner Show Us Your Life Wedding Series in one post! So, this is the second part of that installment, our Honeymoon! We chose to go to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN. We drove straight through the night of our wedding to Tennessee. We had rented a cabin from Aunt Bug's Cabin Rentals, Lover's Lake. It was beautiful!! We were in Tennessee for a week and stayed very busy!

This is our first sunrise as husband and wife! Forgive the splatters! I was driving, so Jud took this picture from inside the car!

This was the front of our cabin, Lover's Lake.

This was the living room from upstairs.

And, the kitchen, which was completely stocked with pots, pans, dishes, and glasses. Not to mention the refrigerator, stove, microwave and DISHWASHER.

This was the bedroom. It had a huge bed, a TV just to the right of where the picture ended, and a Jacuzzi just under where you see the towels hanging! Just in case you didn't read that right, a JACUZZI in the bedroom!! The door that you see was to the bathroom, which had another door on the other side to the kitchen.

This was the upstairs! Obviously, it had a pool table! Just to the left of where the picture ends was a TV with a Playstation with a couple of games. We never played it, so I don't remember what games. Behind where I was standing, was a small bar with bar stools. The door that you see led to a small alcove with the clothes dryer in it. There was another door to the right with the washer in it!

This was the back porch (off of the kitchen) with a hot tub! That was VERY useful after a full day of sightseeing!

These steps led down from the front porch to the pond!! Jud was actually standing on the first landing looking down at me. There was two landings, not counting the actual top. That tells you how high we were from the pond. There was a house about 50 yards to the left of the bottom of the stairs, but it was down on the level of the pond and one-story. You can actually see the very top of the roof from the picture of the back porch through the trees.

This was how we started our Monday morning. We got half way down the mountain before we realized we had a flat. So, instead of going on down and finding a somewhat flat surface, Jud drove back up to the cabin to change the tire in the uneven drive.

After he changed the tire, we headed to Gatlinburg to go to all of the Ripley's stuff. They had a deal where you could buy a wristband, and you could go to all the Ripley's stuff for seven days as many times as you wanted. So, that's what we did. This was "Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies" and is probably the best aquarium I've been too.

Yep, I even got to pet a stingray!!! That was very cool!

This is going through the acrylic tunnel. There are sharks, fish and stingrays swimming around and over you as you go through. And, we see the above picture just before we see the sign below:

"The scratches you see are the result of a shark attack on the acrylic tunnel December 15, 2000; And no one was hurt." We couldn't get a picture of the scratches due to the lighting. (We were both taking pictures with different cameras. And, neither of our cameras had the right dates!)

We also went to Ripley's Believe It or Not and Ripley's Haunted Adventure. I'm just not including any pictures of those due to the very few that I have of those.

Jud with the General Lee at the Stars Cars.

Me with Hugh Hefner at the Wax Musuem!

Tuesday, we went to Dollywood. We don't have any pictures due to it raining while we were there. But, we bought ponchos and kept riding rides.

Wednesday, we went White Water Rafting. Jud and I both decided we would do that again someday!! It was very fun!

Thursday, we went back to the aquarium. Then, played mini-golf at the above mini-golf course.

Jud with the cows!!

That night we went on one of Haunted Ghost tours in town. And, guess where we ended up at midnight?? And, we didn't see a single ghost. Surprise, huh?

Friday, before heading home, we went up the Uber-Gatlinburg one last time. It takes you up to the top of one of the mountains.

This was the sign in front of the first house in Gatlinburg; a one-room house that Martha, her seven kids, her brother and his family lived in.

Then, we played a little more mini-golf at this course before leaving Gatlinburg and heading into Pigeon Forge one last time.

This is the sign that we saw heading into Pigeon Forge from either direction.

Once we left Pigeon Forge, we made two more sightseeing stops before heading home. We went to The Apple Barn, which is exactly what it's name says, but more. One of the buildings had all sorts of Apple stuff, including kitchen stuff and apples fixed different ways. And, another one of the buildings was an ice cream place.

Then we stopped at the Forbidden Caverns to go through them. That was very cool! The above picture is from the Caverns. The guide said that the temperature stays the same in the caverns no matter what the temperature is outside!!

This picture is of my good-looking husband, as we were getting ready to leave the Caverns to start the trip home!!

I hope you enjoyed this look into our Honeymoon as much as I enjoyed remembering the trip!!