Cades Cove ~ Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Since the first day of our vacation (Saturday) was spent in driving down to Tennessee, I won't bore you with those details. I did a post on the cabin. Check that out below.

Sunday morning, we drove about an hour to the Maryville Pilgrim Holiness Church. We gave ourselves plenty of time to get there. We didn't want to get there late in case we got lost. We had no trouble at all finding the church, and were greeted warmly by Brother and Sister Walden and the congregation there at Maryville. We enjoyed a great service, then made our way back to the cabin to change clothes and have lunch before going to Cades Cove for the afternoon.

Well, we got a little stuck in the driveway at the cabin. Stuck as in one wheel was no longer on the road. We had to have a wrecker come and pull the car out.

We finally made our way to Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We took the scenic route there.

We really liked Cades Cove. I know some people think it is over-rated, but we enjoyed it. We saw some wild turkeys, a deer running across the field, some horses, and even a bear. I wasn't able to get a picture of the bear because there were so many other people trying to see it as well...and the park ranger was making everyone on the road keep moving.

We stopped at the old Methodist church, which had two doors, one for men, and the other for women. We saw the Cable Mill area, with the mill and a couple of houses.

 The sun shining through these trees turned out so cool in this pic.