Absolutely "Viewtiful"

Spring Break Adventure Part Three

Kyle, Addie, and I set out on what is becoming our annual trip to East Tennessee to visit our great and fabulous friends Casie and Ryon.  This year, Casie and Ryon, welcomed their beautiful baby girl Mattie Lu to our party.  I look forward to seeing this crew so much since we live five hours away from each other the only talk on phone or on the computer.  But getting to the cabin named "Absolutely Viewtiful" was a trip in itself....

Casie and Mattie Lu hanging out at the cabin.

     The trip started off with a bang when Kyle and I decided that we had to have our ipods before leaving for the mountains.  While we were picking up our ipods from the ipod man, who shall remain nameless, our dog Allie was waiting in the car for us.   Little did we know that Allie had decided to leave us a not so nice treat in the front seat.  This treat was not sweet and did not have a nice aroma.  After cleaning up that mess we were off to the Great Smoky Mountains.  We were having a great, peaceful trip and were making great time since we planned our leaving around Addie's nap.  That was until we decided to take the back way to the mountains and cut through Maryville and Townsend instead of going through Knoxvegas.  We thought... we have never gone this way.... we will miss the Knoxville traffic... hey lets try this out.  This was a BIG mistake!!!  

 

Addie playing with the baby gear.  It took all of her might not to get in the bouncy seat.

With in five minutes of getting off I-40 we got rear ended by a lady in the rain.  Addie was sleeping, I was dosing, and Allie was sitting in my lap.  All of this peace came to an end.  So our time saving move took about an hour longer after the accident report. When we got back on the road we were having to calm Addie down because she was not exactly ready to stop playing in mommy's car so we did what any great parent would do... we gave her M&Ms. 

    So we are going along the back way, which was very curvy and winding, trying to find our cabin.  After looking, going down the wrong road, and finally calling for directions, we were coming up the hill to "Absolutely Viewtiful" when Kyle said, " Addie doesn't look to good."  I look to the back seat and see the M&Ms and strawberry juice that I gave my daughter to soothe her come back up due to her car sickness.  I know what memories.  So the new parents, Casie and Ryon, come out to greet us and were just speechless. We pull Addie out of the car with "vumit" all over her.  I loved it when Ryon said, " Oh we see throw up all the time with Mattie Lu."  And I said, " Toddler throw up is a lot different than baby spit up."

So after an exciting start, Casie and I had a great time shopping and going out to lunch the next day.  This day was worth the troubles getting up there the day before.  And the fun was a little short lived for me because the next day I got a stomach bug and spent the day in bed and in the bathroom.  Yes this trip made lots of memories and laughs looking back:)  

Addie keeping me company in the bed.