Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2013 Year in Review

Wow 2013 you sure went by quickly!! It seems like each year flies by faster and faster than the previous year. I'll try to let the photos do the talking. :)

January

With busy season I honestly don't remember what happened or didn't happen in January.  However in late January Scrubmates hosted Winter Wine & Tea.  We were fortunate enough to have the Colt's super bowl trophy to take pictures with.


February

This didn't happen in February but it aired, our TV debut, on Pawn Stars!


March

A work trip to Dallas to see my buddy Reggie happened in early March.  Then, at the end of busy season, I was rewarded with a trip to the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 to see Louisville on their run to the National Championship.


 April

By April, Darren's interviews were in full force.  We coupled an interview at Mt Sinai with a long weekend in New York City. 


 May

During Darren's last interview leg in May, we ended up doing a road trip to Durham, Charleston, Asheville, Savannah and Gatlinburg.   Also in May we went to the Indy 500 for the first time.


 June

In June we went out and celebrated Mollie's birthday with a beautiful cake and a tasty dinner.


 July

 In July we had a BBQ for the 4th and the following weekend went to Chicago to celebrate the wedding of Kristin and Tim.


August

In August I went to my first official soccer game and saw Chelsea beat Inter Milan.  Then we jetted off to Vegas and met up with Jason and Michelle for a long weekend and then spent the rest of the week in Los Angeles. 


September

A weekend in September ushered in football season with the Bears playing the Vikings. 


October

In October we celebrated our first anniversary by taking our first trip to London!


November

In November I got to join Bryan and Carolyn for their baby shower in Chicago and then that same weekend we went to a second bears game against the Lions.


December

Christmas.  So grateful we got to celebrate with both of our families again this year.


Thursday, July 11, 2013

Gatlinburg

After Asheville we headed west into Tennessee and to Gatlinburg.  That morning before it got too warm we decided to take a waterfall hike.  The hike was a bit steeper than I was expecting but the views were distracting and pretty.


At the end we reached the waterfall.


The view back down.


On the way up we had heard someone had spotted a bear but we could not see it.  On the way back down we saw not one but two bears.  This black blob is the bear.  He was hard to photograph!


 Once back on the auto portion of the trail we pulled off at this pretty brook.


After our drive we went into Gatlinburg.  Darren wanted to take the ski lift to the top to see the view.


It was pretty but not worth the cost of the ski lift tickets.


Enjoying the ski lift on the way back down.