Trip to Tennessee

LaDonna's mom moved to Tennessee a few months ago from the North Carolina mountains. It's only about an hour and a half west from where they lived before. We hadn't been out to see them or the new house, so we took a road trip this last weekend and drove out. It took 7.5 hours to get there with one stop for dinner where we let the kids get out and stretch. It took us just over 7 hours to get home because we tried a different route. We ran into one accident and stopped three times. One stop for a meal and two for potty breaks. We still have one more route to try to see if we can cut off some more time from the trip.

It was a good trip and the kids had fun playing with their cousins there and seeing family. They live within walking distance to the lake where the fishing is supposed to be great. The kids got to do some fishing, but we didn’t have time to do some real fishing. Below is some little fish that the kids reeled in. Brian had already hooked one for each of them and they got to reel it in. LaDonna has a sister named Patience that lives really close to her mom and she has two kids, Seth and Westin, that were there. Lonna and Bryce were pretty excited about the boat ride and fishing. When we pulled the fish out of the water, Bryce wanted to touch it again and again. Then the fish would move and he’d jump and laugh and want to do it again. Lonna was excited as well and watch me take the hooks out and put them in a bucket. We kept the little fish for bait fish and later that night put the little fish on the hook to try and catch some big fish. We didn’t catch anything, but the bait kept getting eaten, so we know there were fish there.

I’ve included some pictures of the lake from the house and also of the kids fishing.