Our Anniversary Trip

On April 4th Chris and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary! We took a weekend trip out to Gatlinburg, TN and had a wonderful time. Gatlinburg is a 2.5 hour drive from home and was quite enjoyable since the weather was so nice. Our first stop was a place called Wonder Works. The outside of the building is upside down and the inside is 3 floors of lots of different exhibits.

The lobby of Wonder Works
There was a space room with flight simulators and this cool space suit.

There was an art floor with optical illusions. One piece was particularly cool it's made of iron...
Then when you turn the overhead light on it, this is what the shadow looks like....cool!

When we were done at Wonder Works we found a room at the Clarion, which was walking distance from all the shops and attractions of main street. We were greeted by this guy (I think it was suppose to be a bunny) I should do this with our towels and wash cloths....yeah, right!
And I felt great knowing that the strip of paper was put on the john for our protection.
I just though that this looked silly.We had a great view of the Smoky Mountains!

Once we got situated in our room, we went out and hit the streets. I had to get a picture of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. restaurant.....Bubba was Forrest's best good friend!

And we found a happy place....:)

This guy made me smile, I guess this was One Happy Place....lol We made our way down to Ripley's Aquarium....such an awesome place! We went to the aquarium at Myrtle Beach last summer and just had to check this one out too. We saw big catfish (though not as big as Chris thinks! LOL).
This picture turned out really cool...
While going through the underwater tunnel, a fish caught my eye (it freaked me out actually!). It looked like it was sitting on the outside of the glass. I thought, "Holy crap!!! Loose fish!!!"
Kitty tells me this is a cuddlefish....odd looking fellow.
And then we saw the creepiest mothers!!! Spider Crabs....OMG! These guys were 3 feet wide (at least). The lighting didn't help the creepy factor! The video needs music, I know, just hum some sinister music.....

The Jellyfish were just so pretty....(someone answer that child!!!) Again, needs music, ummmm...hum some very lovely music for this one.

I had never seen a stingray dance like this guy before....go ray, go ray, go ray it's your birthday! .......Party music obviously!

We had dinner at a nice little cafe/pub. There was live music and a nice view of the street below, good for some people-watching.

Chris' meal came with a fried pickle of all things! Huh!

Our waitress was very nice and took our picture.

Still in love after 11 years of marriage.....aawwww!

The next day we floated in a wind tunnel like skydivers! I purchased the video and I'll share that sometime. Fun! Fun! Fun! We are exciting people I tell ya!

Then we went home.

The End