Tennessee in June

Okay, so this is a bit late and a bit out of order, but when you fry your desktop which contains all your photo files this is what happens! Alas, after much blood, sweat and tears with the incredibly useless folks at Dell (okay the guy who finally came to replace the power supply, you were pretty useful) the desktop is back in action! Now I am onto the task of managing a pretty massive backlog of pre-move photos taken during our farewell USA tour.

In late June we met up with Shannon's one and only brother and his family for one last cousin love-fest before the big move. We rented a cabin near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which provided a great base to explore our nation's (yes we still belong to the USA!) Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We had a lot of fun hiking, reading, playing in the river, talking, splashing in the hot tub, shopping for sweets on the strip, eating, bear watching, counting live scorpians in the cabin, watching movies and just being together. I am not a fan of goodbyes and typically do my best to minimize adieus, but I have to admit that when it was finally time to say goodbye this one was a little hard.