For Spring Break, our family took a trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee.   I mean, our WHOLE family took a trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee.  Our 5, my parents 5, my grandparents, and my aunt and cousin.  Whew, what a crew!

We all stayed in a chalet on the mountain.  Libby wanted to buy it, so we could all live together, all the time 🙂

We didn’t have a pool, but we did have a hot tub, which is the next best thing!

On our first day, we went to the Smoky Mountain Deer Farm.  It was a short drive from downtown Pigeon Forge, but well worth it.  The farm had camels, goats, kangaroos (including a baby in it’s mother’s pouch!), reindeer, horses of all kinds, and more.  All the animal interaction was right up Kyndall’s alley.

Libby, not so much….

And Jase and I weren’t quite sure what to do about that big animal trying to sniff us!

I think the reindeer were the coolest.  We were all shocked at how velvety soft their antlers really were.

This girl was pretty cool too.  I’m not sure if you can see it, but she has a baby kangaroo in her pouch.  If you look super close at her belly area, you can barely see the baby’s tiny little feet.  (Fun fact:  We were educated on the birth process of kangaroo (kangaroos?) while we were here and it is pretty amazing.  If you don’t know, you should look it up!)

We kept coming back to the camel–they were just so friendly.  Or hungry.  Who knows what a camel is really thinking, right?

We followed our petting zoo experience with lunch at Bubba Gump Shrimp Co and a stroll around downtown Gatlinburg.

The next few days of vacation were a whirlwind of fun that I’ll share with you later.  (I think this post has enough pictures to get you through for quite a while!)