After our very long day 3, we got up on day 4 and went to another Civil War Battleground....Chickamauga in Georgia. While battlefields are not the most interesting thing to me, my boys LOVE them! This one was HUGE....reminded me a little bit of Calloden in Scotland, but even bigger! There was a great cell phone audio tour so we spend most of the time driving around to the different sites and listening to the information. Every once in awhile we got out and looked around. We didn't take too many pictures since it all pretty much just looked like a big green field! :)
After spending the morning at Chickamauga, we headed up to Knoxville where we would stay for the last two days of vacation. On the way there, we stopped at the Mayfield Dairy. Mayfield is Tennessee's equivalent to Bluebell. Their milk comes in a bright yellow jug! In college, my roommate always said that Mayfield made the best milk. At the time, Nashville did not carry Mayfield's milk so every time her parents came to visit from Maryville (outside of Knoxville), they brought 2 big jugs for us in a cooler! We were too late to take a tour, but we did enjoy some ice cream and the boys "milked" a cow!
The next day, we got up and met the McKennas at Ober Gatlinburg. They have family in Knoxville, so they came at the same time we were there. :) Ober Gatlinburg is a ski resort in the winter and a mini amusement park in the summer. You take a sky gondola thing up to it. It is about a 15 minute trip with such a beautiful view up into the valley. When you get there, there is so much to do. The favorite is an alpine slide. You ride the ski lift up to the ride and then slide down racing each other. There were also some fun water rides and swings. We took the ski lift to the very top of the mountain peak which was beautiful. It was great because the kids could pretty much do the rides over and over and when the adults got tired, they could just sit and watch.
Finally on the last day before we left to drive home, we all went horseback riding. When Steve and I were in Knoxville for the DI competition in May, we were told of the Walden Creek Stables and absolutely loved them! We knew that when we brought the boys, we would take them horseback riding there. This time around we went on the hour and a half tour which took us even further up into the mountains. It was a fun way to end our trip. Ana was in heaven!
Steve's horse, Atta Boy, was really onery. He kept spitting out his bit and then would try and nip Steve in the leg every time he went to put it back in!
We can't wait to go back to Tennessee!
