- [Mother] Where are we? - In Gatlinburg. - [Mother] Gatlinburg? - (band music plays). - [Father] Did you have fun Colin? - Hey, there everyone. Our family is out of town this week. We are still in Tennessee, but we are in the mountains. [Mother] Maya, where are we? - In Gatlinburg - [Mother] Gatlinburg. And Gatlinburg, like I said is in the
middle of the mountains. You know what mountains we are in Addy? - Hm, the Smoky Mountains. - The Smoky Mountains, that's right. - (orchestral Music) - [Mother] So we kind of just
wanted a change of scenery. We're down here from
Monday through Friday, and we're just doing our normal days here. So we're doing schools
all day in the mornings. And then in the afternoon, we're gonna have a little
fun and explore the area. But before we explore the area, we went in to show you around
this awesome house that we rented right in the mountains [Mother] What room are we in now kiddos? - Ah, the game room. - [Mother] The game room. This is in the basement, you gonna show us around Maya? - Yes sure, come on Colin. - [Mother] Colin's gonna show us too. - So, we're here and this the
game table where you can pull out any board
game and play with them And over here is really
cool cause it's a video game. [Mother] Yes let's see what this is. So what games can you
play over here, guys? - Donkey Kong, Frogger, Pac-Man. - Colin, what do you like to do
down here in the basement? - There's... (indistinct). - [Mother] Play with those. There's a pool table down here, and a ping pong table. [Mother] Do you have
ping pong skills Maya? - Yeah. - [Mother] Can I see them? - Yeah. - [Mother] Okay, let's
see what Maya can do. - (ping pong ball bouncing). - So I don't have ping pong skills Do you have ping pong skills? - No. - Aww. We'll see if Colin can
do better than I can. - Hmm - Wanna give it a go? - (ping pong ball bouncing). - Whoa, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Okay, so maybe none of us
have ping pong skills yet, but we have until end of
the week to get better. Maybe we'll wow everybody come Friday. - (instrumental music). - And there's a whole
other game over here too. What are the games do we have guys? I think it's shuffleboard, which I don't know how to play, but we're going to have to
figure this one out too. - (Orchestral music) - [Mother] Whoa! You know what you're doing Addy? - Umm, No. - [Mother] No not quite. Luckily, there are rules. So we're going to have
to learn this one too. There's more down in the basement though. What else do we have down here? We have two bedrooms. [Mother] Addy, do you want to
show off your room? - Yes my glorious bedroom. - [Mother] Okay Addy. - Hmm, and the TV which we watched last night. - [Mother] Very nice. - I have a bathtub in my bedroom. - [Mother] You have a nice bathtub. - [Addie] Yeah - [Mother] With the fireplace. - [Addie] Yes. - Now everyone wants a bathtubs or you, there's jets me and Collin last night, we exploded with bubbles. - [Mother] With bubbles yeah. - Here's my fireplace. - [Mother] Yes. Do you want to see when it's darker? - [Mother] You can change the colors, can't you? - Yes. - [Mother] Ooh, that's so cool. Where are you and Colin sleeping. Wanna show me? - Over here. - [Mother] AIright, go show me Collin. Where is your room. Here's Maya's fireplace too. They have their own fireplace. And then here's your room. - We have a nice porch. - [Mother] Yes you have, go out... Show us outside. There are three levels on this
house and every house has an amazing like porch with beautiful views. So here's the basement level porch. Here's the seating area. Oh, is this a fire pit here? We haven't used this one yet. Let's see. Ooh, it is a fire pit. - Collin. - Looking good. - [Mother] Very nice. And then she got these views out here. They're beautiful. Aren't they? - (beats slowing). [Mother] And if we go this way, what's over here Addie. - Well over here we have some seating, and then we haven't tried it out yet, but we have a hot tub. - [Mother] Whoa this is going to be fun. And all leads back to - My room. - [Mother] Your room right here, that's right? Yes we were really
excited about the hot tub, but it's like 89 degrees here. So the hot tub might be more like a mini pool on this vacation if we even open it up. Do you wanna to get in the
hot tub later today yeah? - Actually, no. - [Mother] No? Is it too hot for you? - I wanna go now. - You wanna to go now. - Well we actually have
a super fun activity planned for a few minutes from now, but we got to show them the rest of the house first. So we're going to go up
to the main floor now. Let's go. - [Maya] You lead the way Collin - [Mother] Go go Collin go. - (feet thumping) - [Mother] Hello? - Hey, hi guys. - [Mother] All right. What's on this level. - Here's the living room. - [Mother] You have a
nice big living room, don't we? And the kitchen over here, Oh, and grandma's over
there looking out the window. What are you looking for? - A black bear. - [Mother] Did you see one? - No. - [Mother] No. - But I am looking. I think it's going to be either here, but I think our best chance is out the dining room window - - [Mother] Over there. - We hope so - Because there are a lot of trees. - [Mother] Yes. - and the wood seems deeper back there. - So we were told that black bears are all over the place and
I'm kind of dying to see one, even though I know that
sounds a little bit scary, I want to see when like out
the window from the safety of the house, the girls did all their schoolwork here. We had school for about four
or five hours this morning. Maybe you've got through a lot of work they're missing at school. A lot of homework So this was a busy morning
and now we're ready for fun, but we still have to show upstairs. - [Addie] Oh, we should
do the balcony first. - [Mother] Should we do the balcony? - Yes. - [Mother] All right,
let's go do this balcony. So I told you each level has a balcony. Here's the balcony for the main level, or I guess he call it the second level. So another fire pit right? And these are our favorite chairs. These, this one doesn't rock. - Yeah. - [Mother] This one is our favorite chair. We get a rock in those. - Hmm those over the top - [Mother] it's very hot. - Yes whoa. - [Mother] We come over here. we have a grill and then just
past the grill is a table. We haven't gotten to eat out
here because it's been so hot. And because it was rainy this morning. So luckily it's clearing up right now, and then Addy and I are looking out, and trying to spot our black bears. - Hmm. - Even the guide for the house has like directions for how to react if we see a black bear. - Yeah (chuckles). - [Mother] When we scan down there are there any black bears? I don't see any. The guide says never feed bears. Always lock your car doors
because bears can open them. - Hmm. - The car doors. What do we have to do when we got here, girls? - We had to lock her car doors. - Well before we lock the
car doors what do we do? - Take all the snacks out. - Take all the snacks, all the wrappers out because
those bears can smell, and we don't want a bear
breaking into our car. Do we? - Hmm hmm - So if we see a bear, we're not gonna approach it. And it says that bears can be aggressive if they run toward you. If they make loud noises or if they're squatting at the ground. So the key thing is, if we see a bear, we don't run. We just walk slowly away from it by-- keeping our eye on the bear. Think we can do that? - Hmm Hmm. - It's going to be hard not
to run if I see a bear. I have to say that. - Hmm hmm - Do you think you can not run, Maya? I think Maya's mouth is too
full of candy to comment. All right, we have to show upstairs. Let's go to upstairs guys. - (bass beats playing). - Upstairs has two more bedrooms. There are five bedrooms in this house and it has a nice little
seating area over here. Maya's chilling in one of the bedrooms. It's a pretty space, isn't it Maya? - Yeah. - [Mother] Where'd you get
that candy bag last night. - Um a--a candy shop called Sweet? - When we first got here last night, we walked down to downtown Gatlinburg and just walked the streets. And there is so much to do here. I thought it'd be kind of
like a sleepy mountain town, but there are a lot of activities, it's gonna be hard to narrow down exactly what ones we want to squeeze in these next few days. Cross here oh we can look down, and see Jason and Collin and grandma. Say hi guys. - Hi - [Mother] And then back this way, and in the last bedroom. discovered some storage down there Addie. Now we actually have a bag of our trash that we need to take outside, put in the trash bins. But the trash is all locked up here so the bears can't get into it. So we're going to go
put that out there now, because we kinda think maybe
if we have trash out there might attract the bear and
maybe we'll get to see one. - (dramatic music playing). - Maya is making some really
good bear sounds over here. - (Maya roaring). - [Mother] Maybe you're gonna attract one. - Yeah. - [Mother] Do you see any? - Off we go. We are in a chair lift, headed up to the top of
this mountain to check out something called Anakeesta They have all sorts of fun things. They have adventure rope courses. They have tree top trails. You can go through what else they have. Addie do you remember? - I think this little water thing, - Yes like splash parks. So many fun activities we're
excited to check this out. Collin, Jason and grandma are in a, like a closed gondola. A little bit more safer. - Here's one. - [Mother] Oh yeah there's
one coming over this way. On our trip you've seen
my mom who joined us. This is my dad, say hi dad. - Hi, how is everybody. - [Mother] (chuckles). So we've got my mom and dad out with us for this special time in Gatlinburg. And now we are looking down
and trying to spot some bears. We think even if we don't see any, we're going to tell Grandma and
Maya that we saw a bunch of them. Is that right Addie? Yeah. We are going to tell them
we saw 1,130 bears. - What that's a little bit
unbelievable (chuckles). - (adventurers screaming). - (dramatic music playing). - What are we gonna do girl? - Um the tree top skywalk - Tree top skywalk first okay. Tree top skywalk. There's tree house adventure. Whoa that tower looks good too. Bear venture, so many fun things. There they come. Hey guys. - Hi. - [Mother] Did you guys see the bears? - No - No - No - We didn't see. - You didn't? - We were going to do that to you. - You were gonna do that to us? - We were gonna do that to you all. - You didn't fall for it ah. - (dramatic music playing). - [Mother] Where'd you go Maya? - Over here. - [Mother] Are you over there? - Yeah. - [Mother] Where is Collin, he there too? - Up here. - [Mother] Okay let me see. Oh, wow. How cool you are at the
top of the tree house. - (dramatic music playing). - One of our first stops
in here is Bear Venture. I'm not really sure what it is, but it looks like a really fun play area. - (beats playing). - Oh I'm kind of stuck in the slide whoa. I see you Collin. - Collin skips everything
and just goes on the net. - [Mother] He just walks on the net yeah. That doesn't surprise me. - (music whistling). - Ready to climb? - 1, 2, 3, 4. - It's a hot day for a
lot of stair climbing. - 1,111. - But the view's going
to be worth it at the end - 1,112. - 1,113. - [Mother] Whoa what a work out. Is there a pretty view Maya? Yeah, North East East Southeast South Southwest. - [Mother] Know your directions, girl. - What? - you have a test on your directions. Don't you next week? - Aah. - (Guitar playing). - [Mother] Look at how hot your face is. Are you hot? Are you a little bit hot? - I am so hot. - [Mother] So hot. (Mother chuckles) Does that feel better? - (Grandmother laughs). - It is beautiful and fun here, but it is really hot. We probably should have come in the fall. - Yes - We are like a month or
two too early for this. - Yeah. - But we'll still embrace it
and have fun right? - Yes. - (drums beating). - (orchestral music plays). - [Mother] Now we're
doing the tree top walk, which is one of the things I
was most excited for to be up here amongst all these trees. And I bet this is beautiful at night, but these are lit and so pretty. Look the lights are
starting to come on guys. - [Grandfather] Ooh how pretty. - [Mother] They are, this is so pretty. - And standing in shade right now is making all the difference. It's like 30 degrees cooler right now. - (Children screaming). - [Mother] This is so pretty. - Yes. - (Rock Music plays). - You were a little bit scared, but did you have a good time in the end? - Yes. - (Mother laughing) Me too. - [Grandfather] How was it Addie? - That was awesome. - (Grandmother screaming). - [Grandfather] You are fine Collin? - Oh my gosh. - Wow. - [Grandfather] Did you have fun, Maya? - It was so fun. - [Grandfather] So fun. - We're just did the Rail Runner, which is one of the rides they have here. Addie went by herself. How was it? Going by yourself? - It was actually pretty fun. - Was it? - Yeah. - Were you scared at all? - I mean, I got creeped out on the 15 foot drop. - [Mother] Did you? - Yeah. Otherwise that was really fun. - And Maya, we had a good time didn't we? - Yes. - Maya was so nervous
beforehand, weren't you? - Yeah. - She was what were you saying? - Ah, What did I get myself into? - What did I get myself into? But we had fun. - Yeah and now I wanna go again. - Did you have fun? - Yeah. - Oh well that doesn't look like a happy face. - [Addie] How was it? - [Mother] Why are we sad? - [Addie] I think he wanted to go again. - [Mother] Why are you sad? You want to go again? - Yeah - [Mother] Is that why you're sad? - I saw Colin's face on the
picture we took and he was smiling. He had a really big smile. Did he have a good time? - He had so much from we both had a blast. - - [Mother] And Grandma had a good time. - We had a wonderful time
just to see him that happy. And he was extremely excited. - [Mother] Ooh. - (Guitar plays)> - Well we're heading back down. This time I'm gonna ride
with Colin and Maya, in the little closed in gondola. - [Father] Buckle up. Big step. - [Mother] Well we made it in. - Yeah. - This feels a little bit safer, and a little bit more relaxing than the ride up in the
open chair lifts for sure. What's outside the windows? - Everybody is flying. - Everybody is flying? (mother laughing) - Well we still haven't
seen a bear though. - No. - I'm kind of bummed about this. I'm hoping we see one
by the end of the day. I'm counting on it. I thought we'd see one
on the chairlift up here, that we see went around our home, and we haven't seen one yet. Where do you think the bears are hiding? - Ah. - [Maya] In their dens. I think the bear's got
a super speed to go, to go this fast. - [Mother] And they've got
super speed to go fast? - Yes. - [Mother] Wow. So they're so fast we can't see them. - Yes. - Me and Grandma when we were going up, we saw, we saw a bears' den. - [Mother] You did? - Yeah. - [Mother] Daddy looks nervous over here. - We're rocking a little too
much for my comfort. - Oh, that's lost. - [Mother] Where did my phone go. Oh that was scary my phone. Whoa okay. I grew up skiing and I go
to chairlifts all the time. So they don't freak me out
as much as they do Jason. Jason didn't ski as a kid so. You getting a little scared, don't you Jason? - Yeah I'm a little vulnerable up here. - (Mother laughing). - Hanging by wire. - [Mother] Not your thing? - No. Not on my top 10 list of things to do. - (Guitar playing). - Well - I can't believe you got
in a full day of homeschool, and a whole lot of new adventures checking out Gatlinburg today.
We're chilling for the evening, hanging in the hot tub. And then what else are we doing Kiddos? Are we making brownies? - Yes. - [Mother] And having a game night. - Yes. - [Mother] Yes I think we should. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to follow us
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