Sky Valley Trip

We took a trip to Sky Valley, GA last weekend. It was so fun! For months we had planned on making the trip with my entire family - parents, Jenn's fam and Bryan's fam. At the last minute my parents decided that the trip was too much for them since it was a 10 hour drive and they had been traveling a lot. My sister decided that it would be too much for her to take off from work since she's taking off a week next week when we go to visit her (yay!), so it was just my brother's fam and us. And Jeff wasn't going to go, but we rearranged his vacation days so that he could... so we were off! I love the mountains!


The place where were staying was about 4o years old and had a rustic theme. My only complaint was that the guy who designed it obviously didn't have kids. There was a skinny little spiral staircase that led up to a loft. Upstairs in the loft there was an open little space that jutted out with no railing and the railing wasn't that high. I was on guard the entire time. And of course Wesley and Lucas loved it up there in their little fort and Miss Ellen wanted to tag along. See the first pic below.


In the rest of the pictures you'll see our family and then Bryan, Wesley and Angela. In addition to the waterfall that we walked to, we went swimming, made a fire in our condo and roasted marshmallows for smores, stopped at lookouts over the Smokey Mountains, hiked to a couple more waterfalls and had some ice cream treats from a mountain candy shop.


We had a great time and I'm on a mission to find a little mountain spot within 2 hours of here... would love to do this more often.





But luckily we spent a lot of time outside! There was a 100ft waterfall within walking distance that had a nice little pool at the bottom and lots of rocks for the kids to play on.