Labor Day Weekend

I hope everyone had a good Labor Day Weekend. I know mine was certainly interesting. My aunt came down for the weekend, and her, my mom, and I all went up to Gatlinburg, TN. The drive was a gruesome 6 hours or so. Fortunately, I was not the one doing the driving.

So what did I do? We walked along a 2.7 mile long trail in the National Park/Forest, but only for an hour. We didn't even get to the half way point before we decided to turn around. Our goal was the Rainbow Waterfall, and everyone said it was worth the trek, but we only had one full day in the mountains, and it was time for us to move on. It was my joke of the day that we saw more wildlife in the parking lot than on the trail. For example, this small snake nearly slithered over my foot as I passed a large SUV on my way to the official trail starting place:



And upon our return, we were greeted by this medium sized black bear:

I'm not saying that this is all that nature had to offer that day, but these were definitely the highlights.



We also went swimming and ate dinner at Olive Garden. And, thanks to the long trip there and back, I finished the first ball of yarn on my pink cabled scarf. It is now 27 inches long and has 23 repeats. I got so sick of working on it during the endless hours in the car, but there was nothing else to do. I think I need to take a few days off from knitting.