My First Time Camping In A Tent!

Today I drove to the Great Smoky Mts with my family. The GPS says it takes three hours to get there. but that's not what happen it took four and a half hours.  That's our family crazy and slow in car drives.

We arrived mid afternoon hungry and excited. First, we went around the campground. Next, we put up our 8 person tent and got cozy. Up here in the mountains was very cold and crisp. Then we helped our mom make beans and rice. Yum! It was so delicious, then came dessert! We roasted marshmallows. Were they good? What question is that it was the most yummy super duper marsh mallow I have ever tasted.  We were having a great time so far to make it even better a park ranger came and he told us about the evening program about the people who lived here in Cade's Cove. Cades Cove is the area we were staying at in the Smokies.

When it was 8PM my sister, dad and I went to the program, it was so fascinating how people lived in those Olden days. And how fortunate we are to be close  to schools, stores, also  inventions that we use today. After the program we came back and had some chips with the rest of our family and then we got ready for bed. And let me tell you it was cold! 

We woke up in five layers, that's how cold it was. We got dressed, and then we went to the ranger station. While we were there asked what  the weather would be like. It was going to be close to the freezing point at night time. So we decided we better leave and go home. Before we left we heard there was going to be a tour of a cabin that was mentioned in the program. So we packed up and we drove to where the tour would meet. We also brought sandwiches for lunch. The tour was two hours. We had this nice tour guide named Lisa. She talked to us about how the people lived in the old days and what they needed to survive, which we knew a lot of the answers to her questions.  On our tour the trees were so nice and pretty. The red leaves crisp and hanging on the branches. We finally made it to the cabin and we rested while we learned about the Oliver's, who lived in this house. When the person was done telling us we thanked him, then we left to go and eat our lunch. 

We decided it was time to go so we left and headed to our car. We ate more of our lunch and had chips.  For a treat we got hot chocolate and we left. We knew we would be back very soon!