"Babymoon!"

Our "babymoon" wasn't as extravagant as our honey moon but it was an amazing time non the less. Eli has bonded us in an incredible way already and our trip just had a different feeling to it than vacations we have taken in the past. We rented a cabin in Gatlinburg, TN for for 4 days and our plan was just to kind of relax.

Neither of us realized how much there was to do in Gatlinburg so though we had plans of just relaxing we did much more than that. Relaxing time was high on the priority list though. Here is a few photos of our cabin.

Note the tub and heart shaped swans. Haha, oh yea!!!!!

The whole entire thing was wood. It was beautiful.

There was a pool table and some other games upstairs.

On top of the hot tub featured in our bedroom, there was also a hot tub on the deck but the view on the deck was not that impressive and we were kind of in the middle of the woods. I've seen a few to many horror movies to be in a hot tub in the middle of the woods so yea...we just stuck bathing indoors.

The view from our patio.

Our cabin was in an awesome location though right between Gatinburg and Pigeon Forge. We actually liked Pigeon Forge because you could drive and park where you wanted and parking was free. In Gatlinburg you paid for parking then walked the street. It was also super touristy which Mark enjoys and I like to but just not as much as him. We went to the Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge and got some fun photos.

We also went shopping at a huge country store that was two stories and very long. Mark practiced what not to do when baby Eli is born.

The day we walked around Gatlinburg we ate at an incredible pizza place. Probably the best pizza I've ever had and then visited one of the crappiest museums I have ever been to. Gatlinburg was fun to walk around and we were going to do a couple of games of mini golf but were enjoying walking and talking so we skipped out on that.

Back at Pigeon Forge we went to the Wonder Works museum. We had gone to one in FL and enjoyed it. Mark loves that place.

We did the high rope course which is about 15-50ft above the ground depending on where you were in the course. You are just harnessed in and hanging by a rope while attempting to tight walk along different materials. It's pretty scary and way more scary than it looks on the ground. My friend Cassie and I did something similar at Stone Mountain, GA but Mark was interested in trying it out. We only got around the first level. 

When we left our vacation we drove through a part of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park and it was crowded. It was beautiful but I think the Blue Ridge Parkway is just as pretty of a drive and way less people. 

I could have cried when this vacation was over. Just knowing that our lives are about to change in such a major way and moments like this vacation won't ever come so simply again is eye opening. I know we will share even more amazing moments when Eli comes but I love my husband very much and our time on this trip was invaluable and more special than probably anyone could have imagined.

It was a great opportunity to open up to each other about our feelings with everything, relax, and really just spend time loving one another. We have a couple of other small trips planned before Eli comes and are also soaking in our new found alone time at the house now that it's just the two of us. We want to take advantage of every little bit of time we have before our lives our changed forever!

Danielle