Good Place to Eat in Gatlinburg

Smith and Son Corner Kitchen is in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on the main strip and right across from the Walgreens. The atmosphere has whiskey bottles whiskey barrels as their decor. So downstairs you put in for your table when it’s ready they’ll call you then you go upstairs to the second floor. There is an elevator for anyone that needs it around the backside.  As you are upstairs they greet you and set you down at your table. The food was great. Service was wonderful. 

So our family loved this place we had friends with us, so we started off with the appetizer of loaded tots and fried pickles. Then we received our dinner, which was the fried chicken salad a cheeseburger. and the barbecue sampler. A side salad, and a kids, macaroni and cheese with hotdogs and a kids meal. That was a chicken, tender, and french fries. Everything came out fresh and hot. We will definitely be going back.

So if you have been here let us know what was your favorite thing. 

Going into Cades Cove when it snows.

So our next journey on our little vacation was to Cades Cove.  Cades Cove is about an hour outside of Pigeon Forge. There are two ways that you can get to it when you go to Gatlinburg and take the pass right after you turn at Sugarland visitor center or you can go through wears valley and enter Townson. you’ll enter into the national park.

This is the 11 mile loop that you drive through with wildlife, old cabins, churches, you can get out go hiking, have a picnic, you can horseback ride. we have been coming here every time we come to pigeon Forge for the last 17 years. Every time we come we always see something new. 

This time was the first time with snow so for one thing you want to make sure you check to see if the roads are open. Sometimes when these roads get too much snow on them, they do close them. But we caught it just right this time so we were able to drive through. You can see the waterfalls were all iced over. Even the river going beside the road was froze over in spots. As we were driving through the views were beautiful the white snow everywhere some of the snow started melting but we were able to see a few deer. The boys got out and a couple different spots.  Mom it’s cold can we please go get back in the car,  these Florida boys. 

But overall this is a great place to go and see the different wildlife. Just make sure that you fill your tank up. There is on gas station in the park. Here you are going into the national park you will lose service. So it your like to hike  take a backpack to go for that hike, pack a cooler up and have a picnic. There is a picnic area with grills and bathrooms, just a heads up sometimes when the weather is bad, they do close the picnic area down as well. And halfway through the loop there is a visitor center with bathrooms so make sure you stop and take that potty break. Also, in the cove they have a campground. It is primitive camping. 

So I hope when you go to Pigeon Forge you take the time out and go to Cades Cove specially if you enjoy the wildlife and wanna see the scenery. 

Christmas

As Christmas is a week away, Let's go back to our adventure from last year. We took our family to Pigeon Forge TN for Christmas. This was our first trip going anywhere for Christmas. So we decided to take our boys to go see snow. We dream of that White Christmas. And this year was the best year. It snowed for Christmas. As we arrived coming into town early in the morning, we drove through the night. It was 3:00 o'clock in the morning when we arrived and it was snowing. We checked into the resort, Hidden Mountain Resort. We had a bedroom little villa.  Perfect for the family, the boys shared a room. We had our own room, own bathrooms and the villa was also decorated for Christmas.

So after arriving we put all our stuff inside The hit beds and slept for a few hours.

Shortly we got up and it wasn't snowing it had stopped, but we were expected to get snow later on that day. As we were getting ready for Christmas Day, we decided not to cook anything that night for dinner. We decided  to go out and get dinner with the kids. So right down from the villa we had a great restaurant, which is one of our boys' favorite places to go when we go to Pigeon Forge, Big Daddy's Pizzeria. As we're sitting in big Daddy's pizzeria, eating dinner, the snow started coming down. We got done and went back up to the villa and got ready for Christmas Day. The boys made sure that the tree was decorated, that we brought and that they left cookies for Santa Claus. Joseph also left Candy Canes for the reindeer. 

The next day was Christmas and everybody got up, walked down stairs and everything is white. It is snow everywhere. It was so magical. Joseph opens up the door to go outside to look at the snow and he sees this thing on the ground. And he's like, mom, what is this? It was the candy Canes that he left for the reindeer. They were little bits and pieces, I guess as the reindeer had started to eat them, they were leaving crumbs in the snow. And you could see them little circles where the snow had melted around the candy cane. The boys ran upstairs, got dressed, came back downstairs, put on their jackets, put on their gloves and shoes and out the door. They were making snowballs, snow angels. and having a time of their life. I have never thought that we would be able to see snow on Christmas Day. As being a parent that was the best gift that you could see when your kids see snow for the first time and say this is the best Christmas Ever Mom and Dad. Thank you We Love You. 

 

So this week, I'm going to talk about the different places that we went to and give you a little sneak peek. Maybe if you're up there at Christmas or any time, you can stop by some of these places and see why we love them and maybe you will fall in love too.

 

Follow Our Family's Adventures

 Our family has the love of the outdoors. Camping in a tent or our RV, hiking, fishing, looking a the wildlife and traveling. We enjoy visiting State Parks and National Parks. Oh we can't forget about about all the little town. So follow along on our family's adventures and hope to see you out there.