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Five Oaks Farm Kitchen

Five Oaks Farm Kitchen

I’ll be honest with you, I don’t care much for breakfast food. I loved eggs growing up, but I got sick after eating them as a child and ended up with an aversion to them. That aversion was further strengthened in my pregnancies where the smell of eggs would make me sick. Due to that,…

Smoky Mountain River Rat Tubing

Smoky Mountain River Rat

One of our favorite things to do to cool off in the summer is to go tubing at Smoky Mountain River Rat in Townsend. For one price (see website for details), you can float down the river as many times as you’d like. The river is mostly calm with a few spots of small rapids…

Anakeesta

Anakeesta

High up above Gatlinburg is an attraction called Anakeesta. The first part of your adventure is getting up to Anakeesta. You will either take a chondola (basically a ski lift chair), a gondola (enclosed space) or you can stay on the ground and get up the mountain on their Ridge Rambler vehicle. Once you’re up…

Parrot Mountain

Parrot Mountain and Gardens

For years, we had heard good things about Parrot Mountain, but just couldn’t envision what it was. It ended up being the highlight of our Spring Break trip that year. Parrot Mountain sits high up on the mountain, over in the Dollywood area. There are birds of all kinds there. Some are out in the…

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