Praying for Bears

We are back from the trip to Tennessee. As you can imagine, I will be posting some great photos. The children had a great time and their Aunt Donna and U. Miah packed the week so full that we ran out of time for everything. We celebrated Rebeckahs Birthday at the Rainforest cafe in Nashville. I will post the pic of her, when they came out with her surprise birthday cake. We also did hiking in the smokey mountains, Dean was happy with how well everyone could keep up on their "Chimney tops" climb. It didn't work out for Micah to make the whole climb, although I think she could have, so Rebeckah and Donna sat with her near the river and I bouldered around until the hikers came back. The children had been wishing to see a bear the whole time, and had even been praying for it to happen. Once we came up on a sighting, but when we asked people said it was already gone. Everyone was pretty dissappointed, but even when we thought our trip was over, driving out of the mountains to go back to our hotel, and leave for home the next day...don't you know a cute little bear jumped right in front of our truck and went lopping off the other side. Everyone got to see him, and of course we jumped out and watched until he was out of sight. It was better than just a bear sighting, it was a close encounter!!!