Back from vacation :D

this time a week ago i was enjoying the nice weather of North Carolina. We started from my house in Florida at 5:30 in the morning and reached northern Georgia about 4:00 that same day and on Sunday we drove into North Carolina, and from North Carolina we reached our final destination of Gatlinburg, Tennessee on Monday :D
It was tons of fun being in the mountains and seeing all the pretty scenery. Florida is so flat compared to Tennessee...The first day we were there we ate at this restaurant the Edge Mountain Grill, and it was really delicious! Everything in Gatlinburg is within walking distance. So after we ate dinner, we walked around a little bit to see some of the shops. On Tuesday, we visited Dollywood. This was one of my favorite things we did on the trip. My favorite part was riding the wooden rollercoaster. Wednesday was sort of like our "sleep in" day. The whole morning was kind of like go-do-whatever-you-want, and i went to one of the tshirt shops and had a custom FF5 shirt made :D and it has a draygon on it! it's amazing. plus my nickname on the back, which is even better! Later that day we had a picnic in Cades Cove, and afterwards we drove the 11 mile loop around the park. I saw a deer, horses, two bears and an owl. It was pretty incredible. That was my first time seeing bears in the wild. Thursday we went to Norris Lake, which is just north of Knoxville. Some people that my parents ride motorcycles with own a piece of property on the lake and they invited us out for a lunch/dinner type of thing. The food was delicious, but my favorite part was going intertubing on the lake! the first time i went, my sis was with me, but the second time i went by myself, which is actually easier than having two people..and i got to go on a jet ski, which i havent been on one of those since i was about 6. Friday was more or less a drive through the mountains on Blue Ridge Parkway. It was really beautiful though...of course for all the bikers on this trip, we had to go ride The Dragon. this is like a biker's dream ride. It's supposedly 318 curves in 11 miles (even though i only counted about 160ish) through steep inlcines and declines that run along the side of a mountain. My dad said they average 29 deaths a year on this road (that's more than two a month!) at the end they have a restaurant/hotel kinda thing for all the bikers that pass through...on our way out of the Dragon an ambulance came along with a cop headed back to where we just came from. You can only imagine where they were going. Saturday we started our trip back home. We departed from some other people we had been traveling with and headed toward Columbia, South Carolina to meet up with my second cousin Morgan who i've never met before. we've talked a lot through email, but this was my first time meeting face to face. it was really nice! i got her to like Skillet and Family Force 5...haha now she wants a copy of their CDs and an FF5 shirt. lol....well that pretty much sums up my entire vacation! it was fun but it's nice to be home (even if it is 93 degrees instead of 83) lol