Smokies with Lindz!

so a few weeks ago me and Lindz went to smokies!! i was sooo excited to go too.. because i hadnt been since last fall and i just love it oh so much! <3 but anyways... we left out on that Wednesday at 4 oclock in the morning.. so i had to be up by 2:45!! me and Lindz rode with Uncle Rod and Aunt Donna and Mitchell Mouse & Dakota rode with Mamomma, Aunt Kristy and Jonathan. The ride up there was filled with lots of sleep and random songs that Uncle Rod would make up and the giggles of Aunt Donna. we went straight to Dollywood (minus the breakfast stop and gas stops). The Chances were there too.. but we barely saw them at all in Dollywood because everybody else besides me, Lindz, Mitchell and Dakota went to a gospel awards festival thing that lasted like alllll day. now dont get me wrong.. i love gospel music. i listen to it more than anything else nowadays. and i like going to watch them live and stuff. but when youre in Dollywood.. where there are big roller coasters and dippin dots and spinny rides and ferris wheels and a train and ALL..... i would be miserable being in a awards ceremony alllll day long! especially when it was as beautiful as it was that day!! needless to say... me and Lindz rode the fire out of the roller coasters. we also rode all the other rides too... such as the ferris wheel ( which to me is wayyy scarier than any roller coaster) but the roller coasters were def the best! and also... i am SOOOO excited because they have started building a new coaster! it should be done sometime next year... so surely it'll be done by my October trip next year!! #FingersCrossed it looks like its gonna be amazing... maybe even the best one they have so far! i seriously could talk abt Dollywood for hours. its just such an amazing place! enough of it for now though.
after Dollywood we went to our cabin for the first time. SUPER NICE! 3 stories.. plenty of bedrooms.. and every single bedroom had its own bathroom (which means alot when your sharing a house with 8 other people.. especially 8 other Underwoods!) it even had a hot tub! we all got ready to go eat.. then met back up with the Chances and went to eat at Texas Roadhouse. which is easily one of my favorites cause they have like the best mashed potatoes there! The trip was filled with delicious food and plenty of arguing between me and Blake (yes, it started as early as the first day) After we ate im pretty sure we ended up just going back to the cabin and chilling in the hot tub for the rest of the night. (well me and Lindz anyways lol)
The next day was our shopping day! we woke up, had amazingly delicious Mamomma breakfast, then headed out shopping. Tanger Outlets, here we come! One of my favorite parts of the Smokey Mountains! we went for hours and hours and spent dollars and dollars!!! and dollars! haha after we were all shopped out (and some almost out of money) we met up with the Chances again at Calhouns. Yet another one of my favorite parts of smokies! its seriously some of the best steak you can ever place in your mouth. easy. it was delicious, no doubt. after that.. the "kids" i guess you could say lol went to one of the little attraction things on the strip. we had tons of fun there.
after that, we went back home to play some scrabble and scattegories! it was just me, Lindz, Mamomma, and Aunt Donna that played scrabble. and i definitely called Mamomma out for trying to spell "NEAT" like "NEET" . and after an argument.. it was proven that I was the correct one! of course! we laughed sooo hard at that. she thought it was just so funny that i called her out , considering that most of the time her own kids are too scared to call her out on something like that ! after that, me, Lindz, Aunt Donna, Uncle Rod, Brother Rob, and Mamomma all played scattegories. (the boys were downstairs playing xbox... shocker there) scattegories was super fun though. definitely filled with TONS of laughing.
Friday was Gatlinburg day! which also means that it was pancake pantry day!! mmmmmmmmmmmm! i cant even put enough M's to describe it. its just so unbelievable. its one of my favorite parts of the smokies (every part apparently is my fav lol) we shopped around for a while after we ate.. and i reallllllly had been eyeing the sky lift. i havent rode it since i was little... and i had pretty much decided that i was going to this day. so just about everybody else had decided to go to some little motion ride .. so i figured that this was my chance for the sky lift. Blake ended up riding it with me, because he didnt want to go on the motion ride or something like that. so we put our differences aside for a 15 or 20 minute ride. it was such a pretty day... such a perfect day to ride the sky lift! the sun was shining bright on the mountains and it was just seriously the prettiest thing ever! we went to play arcade games after that... and then when we were on our way back to the trolley that afternoon i realized that i hadnt taken a single picture on the sky lift.... and i go furious with myself!!! how could i forget when it was such a pretty day!?!?!?!?!!?! #dumbmistake
we went back to bullfish grill that night.. which wasnt a hit with everybody but i sure did enjoy my mozzerella sticks! we went shopping then called it a day after that. (after more hot tub and girl talk for me and lindz)
Saturday was our final day. we got up and had yet another batch of delicious Mamomma breakfast. we got all packed up and then went to the chimneys for a bit. it was soooo cold though. it was beautiful.. but i really couldnt even enjoy it because of how freezing it was. after a few little pety errands we ran.. we were on our way back home. and i hated it. i wanted to stay for atleast another week!
Smokies is just so amazing. i think i could go for 2 weeks and not get a bit of tired of it.

That night once we got back home... i took the little Toney girls to the Haunted Gin. it was all of their first time to go to a real haunted house.. even Lindz's! Andrew and Ross also came with us.. i guess they were the so-called "men" of the trip. it was a decent trip.
My birthday was the next day! the big 1-9! yeah... i hate birthdays now lol.

until next time!