Sunday, July 19, 2009

We're having a great time checking out the amazing things that Tennessee has to offer. With a big city only 15 minutes away, we're close to the big stuff, and small stuff. On Friday we drove into the mountains. We visited an old favorite of Brandon's called the Blue Hole. It hosted the 1996 Kayaking Olympics. The water level is low right now so the view of all of the rocks was incredible. We hiked with the boys into the mountains and over to the Blue Hole. It is there that we saw people "swimming into the rocks." Many rocks are hollowed out which creates a tunnel for swimmers to enter. I've never seen anything like this. The boys enjoyed the sightseeing and poor Payton took a little accidental swim. He was all smiles but a bit soaked for the rest of the trip! On Saturday we joined some other staff members to go blueberry picking.  I grew up picking blueberries so it was nice to continue on even in a new state. When we rounded the corner to enter the blueberry farm the most incredible view filled our eyes. The mountain tops seemed near and the landscape was breathtaking. We ended up with 8.7 pounds of delicious Tennessee blueberries. Today we traveled to Chattanooga where we attended a peach festival! Talk about yummy!

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Sounds like you all are having a good time, glad things are going well for you all. We all miss you here though!

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