Weekend at Cades Cove

I (Katie) wanted to spend my birthday in the mountains, so we loaded up the car and drove over Cades Cove on Friday. The drive to Townsend is less than 45 minutes from our house.


We stopped at Sonic in Maryville and got Luke a chocolate milkshake!


We saw turkeys in the field.


He was having so much fun just running around everywhere!


He loved the sunroof. (And by the way, that's the rental car, otherwise he would not be allowed to drive his cars on the roof of Mommy's BMW!!)

He loves the horses ... from far away. He would NOT pet one. They were so friendly, though, and starved for attention.

This is "On Your Mark. Get Set. Go!" He loves to run, just like Mommy.


We found this mama deer with 4 fawns. They didn't stick around for pics so I had to get what I could.


"They went that way"




Family pic... A certain little person wouldn't stand still for very long to get a nice group shot.




We found a butterfly on the ground.


This is the coyote that walked up on us while we were having our picnic. He's probably only 20 yards away from our blanket.




We didn't hike all the way to Abrams Falls, though I really wanted to. Maybe next time. As we hiked down the Elijah Oliver Trail, we passed a lady who said she had just seen a bear! She was trekking it out of there. Me, I would really really like to see a bear! In all my years of going to Cades Cove, that is the one thing I have never seen. I've had plenty of near misses though. And this was another miss. If we had been three minutes further down the trail, I would have seen a bear. Oh well. Maybe next time.

You can see more 'artsy' pictures on my other Blog here.