Vacation, Day 3

Today we had a leisure breakfast at TC's. I played my fiddle, I should say practiced on the stoop in the warm sunshine all morning. Then it was off to Pocket Loop at Pigeon Mountain. Most people are probably not familiar with the Pocket Loop as you have to take a dirt road past a few residential/farm type houses. There is a partially built boardwalk and the rest is mountain trail up to the falls. We had our "Flowers of the Smokey Mountains" book with us and identified a lot of plants. We spent the afternoon throwing rocks in the creek, catching salamanders (and letting them go) and playing with a huge millipede. All in all, a great day.

On the way home, we made another attempt at the incline railway on Lookout Mountain (http://www.lookoutmountain.com/) and this time we did it. Channel 46 from Atlanta was there and filmed us. Hopefully, someday it will be available on line.

Vacation, Day 2

We woke up early today and had breakfast at T.C.'s house. The girls were outside in the fresh, cold spring air immediately after breakfast. We spent the morning at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga (www.huntermuseum.org), had lunch at Tony's Pasta Shop in the Bluffview Art District(yummm!) and rode the carousel at Coolidge park (http://history.amusement-parks.com/tenncool.htm). We attempted to ride the Incline Railway up Lookout Mountain but several busloads of kids were getting in line just as we drove up. Dinner was at TC's.