A Birthday Adventure

We started out on our birthday adventure to Anakeesta in Gatlinburg, TN bright and early and I was very tired and grateful for my travel mug of coffee I had brought with. The winding mountain roads heading south out of Pikeville always make me nervous, but it is worse when someone else is driving and I don't have any control. Despite my tired eyes, they stayed wide open watching every wind in the road approaching, but perhaps I only commented on it once. Eventually the windy mountain roads gave way to interstate travel and I relaxed into the journey a bit more.

We arrived at Anakeesta around 11am, easily found a parking spot, but had a harder time navigating the waiting lines. Nothing was marked very well, but we managed to get into the ticket line and secure a couple tickets before hitting up the restroom (yes there was just one), and then found the appropriate line to get to the top of Old Smokey.