HEATHER COMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a super fun surprise!! My college friend and after-college roommate Heather came for a visit this summer!!!  Since I haven't seen her in 7yrs....it was exhilarating and exuberant!!!

She met this man. Mr. Bush Bean himself. Actually, the museum was closed so we took a picture with his card board self.

 Talk about exhilarating...my sister and kids came 3 days early and got to see her too! We ate dinner. Here are the girls. 

 One day we left the kids with my parents and spent the day in the mountains. We watched the movie at the sugarlands visitor center. And saw this bear.

We at lunch. Focus in on the corner of the table. Justin fed the birds some of our seeds from lunch. They liked it.

 There we are. All done eating.

We drove around Cades Cove looking for bears and observing history. :-) This is one of the bears we saw. It's the black dot to the right of Heather's cheek.

We also saw a herd of horses. They were pretty.

We stopped in the middle of Cades Cove to hike Abrams trail.

 The river down the mountain.

 Since it had rained days and days before Heather came, some of the trail was a little wet. See...

 I wanted to stop and look at stuff.  Justin relented his fast pace and stopped to look. Aww shucks. Look at him look.

 And then Heather and I screamed just a touch as we walked by this snake that Justin had to go back and pick up. We are actually super far away...this is just zoomed in as far as it could go. 

 But we made it to Abrams Falls. Ahhh.. pretty.

 Refueling at the falls.

 This was where we parked to get to the trailhead.

It was SO GREAT to see H-er again!!

 Wonderous

She was a little disappointed in the sprinkles on her ice cream afterwards. I'm still not sure what other type of sprinkles there are that are better... ???  But there are some!

The ice cream shack had lots of old stuff around, including this police car.

 Fire at our house after the long day in the Smokies.

For some reason that's all the pics I had on my camera. There was other fun of art museum, big water fountains, world's fair park, bike ride, ferris wheel, and kickball. Heather, I am so thankful you made the trip! It was SO awesome to have you here! You are welcome back anytime! Elias still thinks you are on a plane when we drive past the airport!