Saturday morning we were all dressed, fed, and out of the hotel by 7:30 am. The agenda for the day was to drive through the Appalachian Mountains, visit Moonbow Falls, the Original KFC, and see where the day took us from there. We stopped at a pretty neat overlook off the side of the road, with beautiful scenery.
It was a beautiful day, but was supposed to be VERY hot.
Our first stop was Moonbow Falls. This park was handicap friendly, which meant it was stroller friendly! 
Jenna decided she was so full of energy that she should push Shelby. She actually pushed the stroller the majority of the 0.2 mile hike, while Daddy served as the steering and brakes!
Moonbow Falls were about 68 feet tall and 125 feet wide.
They called it "Moonbow" because of the bowed curvature of the fall and the beauty of the fall by moonlight.
We left the falls to travel into Corbin, KY--the home of Colonel Sanders -- the most famous Kentuckian! This was the Original KFC, Sanders Cafe.
Inside the KFC, of course there was everything you would have in a traditional KFC. as well as the original kitchen loaded with the original gadgets used by the Colonel. They had the original cash register, books about him, and his original table where he ate his breakfast. It was like a little museum in the restaurant or was it a restaurant inside of a museum... The girls and I posed with a concrete statue of him.
We left there and went hiking. We needed to work off the "nutritious" lunch we just ate. There was a park with a nice overlook. I don't remember what it was called. Here is a picture of me and Shelby. This is how Shelby was carried thoughout the rest of the vacation.
Lance and Jenna at the outlook.
We left the outlook and went into Pine Mountain State Park. It had a hike to go see "Chained Rock". It was a 0.5 mile hike to go see a rock that overlooked Pineville. At the end of the dirt hiking trail, we were faced with a huge boulder with a face that went straight up!
Lance took Jenna on shoulder, straight up the boulder. I wasn't so sure about this. From the top, Lance found a safer path for Shelby and I to take. We didn't hike all that way to not get to see the "chained rock". Wondering what a chained rock looks like? Here you go!
Each chain link was 7 pounds. I took a picture of my foot (size 8.5) next to the chain to put it into perspective. The story behind the chained rock was not really clear, but seeemed to be a ploy to get people to visit Pine Mountain Park and Pineville.
Though it was scorching hot, I must admit, the view was beautiful!
We left Pine Mountain and traveled to the Pinnacle Trail in another park. Every park, had to have steps.
Here is the state line. The left side of the pictre is Shelby and half of me in Virginia, while the right side is me and Jenna in Kentucky. There was literally a "state line"!
The view from the outlook was pretty!
It looked down over a city and out over the mountains!
Jenna took off walking back towards the truck. She was throwing her hands up in the air and just babbling away!
She then realized that mom, dad, and Shelby were a good distance behind her and she turned around to "drag us along".
We left there and had had enough hiking for a while. We took off to drive to see the Cumberland Gap. It was okay, but there really wasn't much to see, other than a gap in the mountains. Lance got to drive through his first tunnel and was very excited. This tunnel goes directly through the Cumberland Mountain.
We went through the tunnel twice (once each direction). We drove around the Cumberland Gap Park, but were not willing to take an 8 hour hike to the gap. There were supposed to be white rocks in the mountains down the road a way through Tennessee and Virginia so we decided to see what we could see. Needless to say, there are no pictures, because we were somewhat less than impressed. I think it is mostly because we had seen so many beautiful things that morning and were pretty well wiped out by time we got there. We left Virginia and Tennessee, to go back to Kentucky for dinner, showers, and bed. We had another big day planned for Sunday!
