Every year we visit Bryson City in the North Carolina Smoky Mountainsnt. Since it was a little warmer than usual, we tried a few new things! We went tubing, whitewater rafting, fishing and visited the local aquarium and the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest.
We don’t get to experience the fall the way it should be here in Florida, so we like to do a little Smoky Mountains vacation to Bryson City, NC every year. It’s a great place to relax and enjoy the season! This year we picked pumpkins right off the vine, mined for gems, went fishing and just enjoyed spending time with family while taking in the beautiful scenery. We were hoping to take the train to the Peanuts themed Great Pumpkin patch, but they weren’t doing it this year so we will have to save that for next time! Getaway…
We’ve been cooped up so much with this quarantine business that when a friend brought up a last-minute vacation to a cabin in Big Canoe, GA, we jumped at the chance to get away for a bit! It was great to escape to a few days of boating, fishing, hiking and just hanging out and having fun. Little Slice of Heaven at Big Canoe Big Canoe is located about an hour north of Atlanta, so it was a seven-hour drive to get there from Jacksonville. It was kind of crazy to see the COVID checkpoint on I-95 going into Florida.…
If you are a mom who has gone on a family vacation, then you know "mom on vacation" is pretty much the same as "mom at home" just without any possible break. Enter, the cruise vacation! What's so great about a cruise you ask? Two words: Free Childcare!