For our Spring Break vacation, we headed to Gatlinburg, TN. Honestly, what drew us to this location was the indoor water park in one of the city’s resorts. Long story short, the water park was regrettable, but the experience of Gatlinburg was awesome.
Normally, we like to take a family vacation to celebrate Manu’s birthday and mine. This break came at an opportune time — our family needed to get away and spend some quality time together. We drove down to TN for the week to get away from the business and stress of our lives in Michigan. One of the best parts of this trip was that we were able to bring along our faithful friend Bentley.
The trip consisted of lots of swimming, great family game nights and video nights, hiking on Sabbath, and trips to local spots — including WonderWorks. We were also able to visit the nation’s best pancake spot. It’s so jamming that it only accepts cash money! It does live up to its hype, though.
Judy and I also spent some time running inventory of our family and talking about plans for the future. We read together and discussed strategies to ensure that our boys are growing spiritually, mentally, physically, and emotionally while they played in the pool.
To our surprise, we discovered partway through our vacation that Familee was in town. The parents enjoyed a good conversation over a meal while the kids watched nature videos.
We were sad when our vacation time ended, but refreshed heading back home with renewed strength and vigor to tackle life in ministry.
