so we did the outdoors

Day 3, Dory and my last full day in Gatlinburg, brought with it a trip to Cherokee, North Carolina. Unfortunately, since it was Christmas Eve, there wasn’t a whole lot going on down there. Still, it takes more than the day before a holiday to close all of the trinket shops. And it takes even […]

so we saw wood carvings and exotic fish in the mountains

Day 2 in Gatlinburg took us to a wood carving place and the Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies.

so we celebrated chanukah in the mountains

Dory, me, and the rest of her family arrived in Gatlinburg today, the sixth night of Chanukah. Since we didn’t have a chanukiah with us, we crafted this wonderful Makeshift Mountain Menorah.

michaela’s graduation

Last weekend, my wonderful cousin Michaela graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a masters in some industrial human psychology (or something like that). That, of course, made for a great excuse for the whole family to get together. My mom, brother, and sister were driving up from Key West, so I flew […]