July 15- Day 2 in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Today we got up, ate breakfast, and headed out for the Chattanooga Zoo.  Since we are Brevard Zoo members, the admission was free!  It was probably 1/2 the size of the Brevard Zoo, but it had a lot of cool animals like the Servil, Cougar, Snow Leopard, Red Panda, Chimpanzees, Prairie Dogs, and a few more that I can't think of off the top of my head.  We went through twice in about 2 hours.

After that we head back towards St. Elmo's and had lunch at Mojo's Burritos.  Then we drove back up to Ruby Falls and the girls did the kid's zip line at Ruby Falls ZIPstream Aerial Adventure.  Kaylyn had done the zip line at the Brevard Zoo once with zoo camp, so she had an idea of what to do and loved it.  Ashlyn took a while to get the hang of the clips and locking them in, but after doing it three times, she had it down and was very proud of herself.  During the final zip line, I got Ashlyn on video, but accidentally stopped recording during Kaylyn's, so I did not get Kaylyn on video.  To see the video click here.  I guess that means we'll have to do it again sometime!  It was a lot of fun!

After that, we headed back to the hotel and walked across the street to the gas station to get something to drink and now we are sitting in our hotel being lazy.  The girls are watching Netflix on their Nooks, Jason is watching television, and I'm on the computer.

July 14- Day 1 in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Yesterday, Friday July 13th, we drove to Chattanooga, Tennessee.  It took 11 hours, with 1.5  of those hours through Atlanta, Georgia alone.  We finally arrived and stopped at Mount Vernon Restaurant for dinner per recommendation of the local Aid Rite pharmacist.  It was a little pricey, but pretty good.

Saturday July 14th, we headed to Ruby Falls and walked the cave to the underground waterfall.  It was just as cool as eight years ago when we went.  When we finally got to the falls, we had our family picture taken and realized a couple minutes later it turned out really bad, so we went to go get another one.  When the guy took our picture the lights went out and the falls didn't come out so good in our picture :-(  I think that happened to us eight years ago too.  But Jason got a cool picture of just the falls before the family picture.  When we came out of the cave, we ate lunch at their little outdoor cafe.

After lunch, we headed to Rock City.  We walked the Enchanted Trail to the Lookout Point, Lover's Leap, Caverns, and a swinging bridge.  Then we headed over to their 2012 Raptor's Bird Show.  It was really neat because they walked up and down the isles with the birds so you got an up close and personal view of each bird.  Some of them even flew over our head a few times.  Only problem was we couldn't have the flash on when taking pictures, so a lot of the pictures didn't come out so well.

 
After Rock City, we went across the street to Starbucks and got a drink to quench our thirst.  Then we headed up to the Incline Railway to ride the train down a steep incline for about a mile.  Once we got off the train and went through the gift shop, we got back on the train to travel backwards back up the incline.  It was so steep, it was hard to stay sitting straight up in the chair.  After we got back up, we got in our car and drove to dinner at Pizza Hut and headed back to the hotel for a normal night sleep.