Gatlinburg

We took a 2 night trip to Gatlinburg over the Christmas break! We left New Year's Day! We stayed at the Ramada in Pigeon Forge! It was really nice and even had an indoor pool, which Mitchell couldn't get enough of! I think the second night he was swimming until almost 11P.M. (10P.M. our time) This was definetly one of the highlights of his trip! The second day we went to the Ripley's Aquarium to see the sharks, to Ober Gatlinburg, then later that night we rode race cars on the slick track, which was another one of his fav. things that we did! Wish I could have videoed it longer but there was only a little place where you could see him! But we rode in the 2-seater, so he had his own little wheel! He was acting like he was turning it the whole time and grinning from ear to ear! I def. think he got his Papaw's need for speed! He even managed to lock himself in SOMEONE ELSE'S room while we were at the hotel too! We would race down the hall everytime we got off the elevator, well this time he went a little too far! I think the maid's had just gotten done cleaning this room, because the door was cracked, so in he bolts and shuts the door behind him! Our first thought was, WHAT are we going to do, then we saw that the maid's were just down the hall! So John took the approach of scaring him! He told him that the monster in that room was going to get him! After a little coaching he finally opened the door! LOL It was a great trip and Mitchell was a very good boy!
Swimming with his daddy!

Ahhhhhhh, its the pool monster!

This was Mitchell's watershow, as he kept calling it! This portion of the pool was a jacuzzi, so John would stick his hand over the hole that blowed in the pool and it would shoot the water out!

SO excited to see the sharks!

Mr. Shark

Trying to find Nemo and Dory!

I love my daddy!

And my mommy!

It's the new fish! The Mitchellcasho!

Stuck in his bubble!

Walking through the tunnel! For those who have never been to this aquarium, you walk through this tunnel and there are sharks/fish/turtles swimming all around and actually right above you! Mitchell never freaked out or cried, but he did keep saying, "walking, walking, walking" to make sure we never stopped for too long through this part! John told him to tickle the sharks bellies when they would swim over, so that helped him a lot!

Waving to the scuba diver men who were INSIDE the tank cleaning the glass! What a job!

Riding the tram! It didn't phase him at all!

Ending a great trip with a little racing! It was freezing this night, but it didn't bother Mitchell at all! He put daddy's gloves on and he was ready to race!

Here's a little video of Mitchell riding the tram! John was standing up videoing, so all he was worried about was John holding on to the strap!