The Rollands' Summer Visit

Two weeks ago we had Allen's parents come to visit, which we very much enjoyed. It was a quick weekend, but we made sure to make the best of it by doing some really fun activities. They arrived Friday evening and we decided to go to one of our favorite Italian restaurants in town - the food was delicious. Then we got up early Saturday morning, went out to breakfast and decided to venture to Gatlinburg, Tennessee where we went to the Ripley's Aquarium. Allen and I have never been to Gatlinburg, it was on our list of "things to do" eventually, so this was as good time as any to see what was up there. We had heard great things about the aquarium and it turned out to be well worth the slightly long drive it took to get there. Emma really enjoyed walking through it - we were surprised at how attentive she was to everything there was to see; it took us about an hour and a half to get all the way through and since we had gotten up there later that afternoon we decided to go out to an early dinner on our way out of town. There is so much to do up there so I'm sure we'll be back, but we had a great time and look forward to having his family visit again!