Wonderfully Weird Spring Break: Gnomes!?, Mountain Coaster, Underground Waterfall and Who would win: Snake vs. Frog

In this episode, we recap our spring break focused entirely on activities, starting in Atlanta and moving into the Blue Ridge Mountains (Georgia) and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

We share:

•  What surprised us (looking at you, Ruby Falls 👀) 
•  First-time experiences (horseback riding) 
•  Unexpected highlights (Gibbs Gardens + Rock City) 
•  What the kids loved most 
•  How everything tied together into one full, multi-stop trip 

📍 Places Mentioned (With Links)

🌸 Georgia / Blue Ridge Area

• Gibbs Gardens
  https://gibbsgardens.com/
  
  (Massive garden known for millions of daffodils and seasonal blooms) 
• Cowgirl Up Stables
  https://www.cowgirlupstables.com/
  
  (Horseback riding experience in the mountains) 
• Brasstown Bald
  https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/conf/recarea/?recid=10458
  
  (Highest point in Georgia with optional shuttle to the top) 
• Helen
  (Bavarian-style mountain town) 
• Georgia Mountain Coaster
  https://georgiamountaincoaster.com/
  
  (Alpine coaster where riders control speed) 

🌄 Chattanooga / Lookout Mountain

• Rock City
  https://www.seerockcity.com/
  
  (Gnome-filled trails, caves, and “See 7 States” viewpoint) 
• Ruby Falls
  https://www.rubyfalls.com/
  
  (Underground waterfall discovered in 1928) 
• Lookout Mountain Incline Railway
  https://ridetheincline.com/
  
  (One of the steepest passenger railways in the world) 
• Tennessee Aquarium
  https://tnaqua.org/
  
  (Two-building aquarium with freshwater + ocean exhibits) 
• Walnut Street Bridge (mentioned)
  (Pedestrian-only bridge—closed during our visit)

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome back to Pack the Kids, an adventure podcast for kids and adults. By kids and adults. I'm Sarah, and these are my two travel buddies, Otis and Nash. Each week we will talk about the real stuff that happens when you explore the world with your family. From early wakeups to planning mishaps to stories that you'll be telling forever. So grab a snack, find your seat, and let's pack the kids. Whoopsie Daisy. We took a podcast vacation and a real vacation, didn't we? Seriously. But before we get started, we have some housekeeping items, okay? This is nuts. We have people listening from four other countries. New people. We have Singapore, Malaysia, France, and Germany. Can you believe that? That's crazy, right? So thank you very much, and hello everybody who's new, and hello to all of our old friends. We did a very mean thing. We left you with a cliffhanger which said where we were going to go for spring break and we never told you, and then we just disappeared. So do you think we should tell them? This episode is all about what we did on spring break and what you can do if you happen to go to Atlanta.

SPEAKER_02 1:13

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Then what?

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Chattanooga, Tennessee.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

And where else?

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Um Blue Ridge.

SPEAKER_00 1:22

Yes, and the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia as well. So yes, so we were gone for nine or ten days. It was a while. And we stayed in like four or five hotels because we're just crazy, which we will explain everything. But this episode we want to talk about all of the fun activities that we did. Starting with well, actually, we flew into Atlanta, didn't we?

SPEAKER_01 1:46

Hotlanna.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

Hotlanna. And we spent one night in Hotlanna. It was warm enough to swim where we were, but when we got back, what was the weather doing? So freezing. But what was falling from the sky? Snow. Snow. We were less than thrilled that snow greeted us when we got back from Atlanta. So we went to a place called Gibbs Garden because it was about a two-hour drive to our first stop in Blue Ridge Mountains. And Gibbs Garden, we are garden people. We like flowers and plants and trees and stuff. So we spent an unexpected, honestly, amount of time here. This Gibbs Garden is actually famous for its daffodils. They plant millions of daffodils. Do you guys even remember Gibbs Garden? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

You do Gibbs Garden? Oh yeah. The one with the snake and the turtles? Yes. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

I should have mentioned there were snakes and turtles. Or an old snake.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

Wait, just two snakes, one turtle and one frog. Can I tell them a story? Go ahead. There was a frog and a snake. This is not this is a real story. It's not just like once upon a time, blah blah blah. So so a frog jump out of the water and and it tried to eat it, but then the frog got into shelter and the snake was just staring at the frog. And also I I I was excited to see the frog get eaten, but also I was cheering for the frog at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

It was hard. It was a tough decision.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

And then and and and then and then the frog jumped back into the water over the snake. It was very cool. It jumped over the snake, and and everybody said, Why would you go back in there? That's the area you do not want to go.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Exactly. So that was kind of a highlight. We also really liked the tulips which were in bloom. Um I love the tulips. This is one of the largest residential estate gardens in the US, which is super cool. And it's very calm and relaxing to walk through. I would say. And they had the um Japanese gardens, which were really cool. Remember those? So that was our little pit stop from Atlanta to Blue Ridge Mountains. And then when we got to Blue Ridge Mountains, we had something that we were all very excited about. Do you remember what we did? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

So we stayed in a log cabin, which was really cool.

SPEAKER_01 4:07

Oh yeah, I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Yes. We went horseback riding. And raise your hand if you were the if this was your first horseback riding experience.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

Yeah, let us know in the comment comments.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

If you've ever ridden a horse before.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Let's say, let's say all horses' names.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Okay, you say what was Nick the Dad's horse's name? Dad's where's Loki's Nick the Dad's. It was Loki, and it was the biggest horse. My horse was the next biggest, I think. My horse's name was Tippy, and she was a sass monkey.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

And it was mom's first time. It was my first time riding a horse. I was actually pretty scared. Okay, so the first time I ha the first time I ever rode one, it was named Candy.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

That's cute.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Which was the first time I ever rode it.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

And the second time, which we are talking about right now, and my horse's name was Thunder.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Yes. Thunder the horse. And Thunder and Otis's horse did not get along, did they?

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Oh yeah, it's because mine kicked at mine kicked at Nash's. And my favorite horse was named Bryo. He was a good listener. It was it yes, my first time. Okay, so when you have the l when you have the um like when you have like the rope, don't go, don't like slam it onto the horse, because it'll make it go like fast.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

That's just in the movies, right? The giddy up, the quick giddy up.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

Yeah, don't do the don't do that. Anyways, if you go horseback riding, they will 100% tell you. Right, mom?

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Mm-hmm. I didn't know that we had to control the horses as much as we did. There was a a little mini lesson before and we were kind of in charge and it was it was a lot to take in. Were you were you afraid, Nash?

SPEAKER_01 5:41

No.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

No. We rode that hor we rode those horses for an hour, and honestly, it was so fun, and now we are kind of addicted. So we rode horses at Cowgirl Up Stables, which was super fun. I would definitely recommend those stables. I love that place. So of course we had to get some hiking in, didn't we? So what wasn't in the original plan was any sort of driving far away from Blue Ridge, Georgia, but we but we but we found this hike called Brass Town Bald, which is the highest point in Georgia. Do you remember that?

SPEAKER_01 6:12

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

It was so steep, in fact, that you can actually take a shuttle if you want to.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

I was a shuttle one, yes. I thought I meant like the hiking one.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah, grown-up tip, just so you know, if you have mobility issues or I don't know, you're not used to hiking, but you still want to see the sights, you can take a shuttle up to the top. It's the highest point in Georgia. It was pretty neat.

SPEAKER_01 6:31

Oh, and there's also like a little, like a little museum. Yes!

SPEAKER_00 6:36

Oh my god, the museum was so funny. Do you remember that they had those wax people that they would talk?

unknown 6:41

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Yeah, that was so creepy.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

It was so scary because it kind of started yelling, and me and Dad laughed so hard because we didn't know it was gonna be so loud. So after we we literally just drove to hike this Brastown bald hike, and then after that, we found a quirky town, I don't want to say weird, a quirky town called Helen, Georgia. And we rode a oh was it the mountain coaster thing? Yes, it was the the Bavarian or inspired village. Yes. But let's talk about this mountain Georgia coaster. Please describe it. What what is it? What is a mountain coaster?

SPEAKER_02 7:19

You have to get these tickets to go on this cart.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

But like instead of homo coasters where it just goes automatically, you can control its speed and its brake.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

How?

SPEAKER_02 7:32

With wait, but you can only do it sitting in the back.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Right, because how old do you have to be to drive it?

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Old enough to have an actual license.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Yes, you have to be 16 to drive it. But I think you could be three years old to ride with an adult, right?

SPEAKER_02 7:47

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

So you rode with dad, no.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

I rode with you. Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

You rode with me, Otis rode with dad, and it has brakes. Of course. That you move with your hand.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

Of course. Mom um made Nash go slower.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

I the boys think I'm not adventurous. I went fast. I swear to you. Oh no, you didn't.

SPEAKER_01 8:09

Thank you. So, so mine, of course, was faster. Still very fun.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

Which Otis can't prove because he did not ride with me, so we should have gone twice. Ooh, which grown-up tip. You pay to go on the coaster, and then the next ride is actually half price, which is cool if you want to go on on twice. Because it is very fast. But it was fun because you got to control it. I don't know. I thought I thought it was fun. I would do it again. The mountain coaster in in Helen, Georgia, for sure. Speaking of quirky, what about Rock City?

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Oh yeah, Rock City. And it was like basically all known themed. There's this kind of like walkway garden. And it's basically it looks like a movie scene. It's so cool. Like like the garden walkway. And like they have and they have these four characters: an adventure, an earth tender, a miner, and a and a musician. And you can see them all over the hike.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

You had to go gnome searching.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

And there's also like mini caves and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Yes, and it's cold in there.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Yeah, it's a lot colder in the caves.

SPEAKER_00 9:18

Yeah. Here's what it basically is: it is a walk through rock formations, some there is a really tall elevation. You can see seven states from where you are on a clear day. There is refreshments at the top of Lover's Leap if you want to sit and hang out. There is Fairy Tale Caverns, which is like a fairy tale. Creepy fairy tale situation, but also like honestly kind of cool. A rope swing bridge. We could have stayed there for a while. I highly recommend. I would go back.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

Yeah, and there it yeah, and like there and also the fairy tale caverns.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

I will be posting this on Instagram because it's very hard to explain. They look like they look like fairy tales, but they've been built out of gnomes and they're lit with black light. If that doesn't sound like a reason to go, I don't know why it does.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Honestly, the fairy tale part's creepy and all. But it is also really cool because like there's like a bunch of gnomes just like hanging around and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

There's also like a rainbow tunnel and also like a fat man's squeeze, which is basically just like a crevice. It's not like thin enough that you'll get stuck, probably.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

It just makes it a little fun.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

Yeah, it's just meant to be it's just meant to be real tight. Walk away.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:35

Oh, and also a quick update on Rock City. Oh, I just found all the gnomes.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Yes, yes, I found most of the gnomes.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Tell us about these gnomies. Well, I can't really tell them about it.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Don't tell them where they are. My tip is to look everywhere. Up, down, but there's round. Yes. You gotta let them spa. Do you wanna say it is not? No. So so there's one at the beginning, like, and and I'm not gonna tell you which one it is because it's still a little invention. I'm just saying, every area, there's one.

SPEAKER_00 11:07

You thought that was fun though, right? To find them?

SPEAKER_02 11:10

I found mostly all of them.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

Yes, you did.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

We had a reservation to go somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Yes, because that is next. I did not realize we would be so long in Rock City. Like Nash said, we had a reservation, and grown-up tip, you have to make timed reservations for Rock City and for Ruby Falls, and I'm pretty sure that if you make them online, there's a little bit of a discount. So, hot tip, definitely make those two online. Um, so after that we went to Ruby Falls.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Yeah, Ruby Falls.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

I had pretty low expectations for this. Boy, was I wrong. Do you know what low expectations means?

SPEAKER_02 11:47

Low expectations on what?

SPEAKER_00 11:49

Ruby Falls.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Okay, yeah, I'm a little confused on your grammar.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

So, thanks, honey. So when we booked this trip and I had a list of things that I wanted to do, I was like, meh about Ruby Falls. Just because it looked a little cheesy, but oh yeah, yeah. Man, it was cool.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Yeah, it was so cool.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Otis, do you want to talk about Ruby Falls? What did you think was cool about it?

SPEAKER_01 12:14

The waterfall, that's like the main thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

The actual waterfall.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

I mean, I kind of liked the actual hike to the waterfall. So I like the hike and the waterfall. I like Ruby Falls itself.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

Oh, me too. What did you learn on the hike, Nash?

SPEAKER_02 12:27

On the hike, there's a lot of exhibits. Well, like structures, exhibits. We learned about well, everybody else learned about stalactites and stalactmites. Mm-hmm. And stalactites are these little kind of spikes, do not touch them because it takes them a whole decade, which is the same age that I am, just to grow.

SPEAKER_03 12:51

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

And yes, just and they're like little spikes. You can't really miss them. And stalactite. Wait, so wait, so stalagmites are the ones from the floor. Correct. Stalactites are like spikes from the ceiling.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

Yes. Yep. You make it sound scary, spikes. I told Otis it was kind of like icicles.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

They're they're kind of like ice spikes.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

But they are spiky. Otis, what do you want to add?

SPEAKER_01 13:14

So so so there was like a but there was like a whole school of the ones from the ceiling. Oh. There was like a whole school. And also there was like structures and it said what they are.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

They named them funny names, didn't they?

SPEAKER_01 13:30

Like elephant foot and dragons.

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Do you remember what the spa wait and and there was also like a light when we were going back to what was it? I think it was um chicken and something else. What was it?

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Oh, bacon and and turkey. Oh no! No steak! It was steak and potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

Steak and potatoes. It looked like a steak and potatoes, but it was actually just a a spherical-shaped rock. And a rock that looked like a steak. And he kind of made jokes like, I hope you enjoyed your steak, but if it was too dry, I bet the next one might be good.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Yeah, our the the guide was really was really funny. Okay, I want to be super clear. Ruby Falls is an underground waterfall. It's actually the the highest, completely underground waterfall that's open to the public, which is so neat. And it was discovered in 1928 by Leo Lambert. We learned all about this from our guide. He was originally trying to reopen Lookout Mountain Cave, and he saw this little opening, and then that led to him crawling on the ground. Some of it was like only 18 inches tall, and he had a crawl in the complete darkness. Who was Ruby Falls named after? Do you guys remember? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

His his his wife? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

What was his wife's name?

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Huh. Ruby.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Yes. That was a that was a trick question. Um, so he crawled about 17 feet through his passage. Seven hours. I guess.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

17, 17 hours.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

I don't remember how long.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Six hours.

SPEAKER_00 15:01

Honestly, I found conflicting.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

And also multiple first stand and then it was 17 hours.

SPEAKER_00 15:09

So it it's in in the tour when you go in the cave, they they mark how far Leo had crawled, and then he was able to stand up, and then they're like, wow, this is really cool. Let's blast it open and put an elevator in here.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

Uh oh no, so you could fit the Eiffel Tower.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Empire State Building.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

And it wouldn't, and it wouldn't touch the and it won't touch the surface.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Isn't that cool? So we went way underground, took a cave walk, saw stalagmites, stalactites, some that had funny names because they looked like a chandelier or an elephant foot or steak and potatoes. It was kind of a long walk. It was about a mile.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

And also, um, if you pro if you probably wondered, what if a stalactite and a stalagmite collide?

SPEAKER_00 15:56

What is that?

SPEAKER_02 15:57

It's called a column.

unknown 15:58

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

You really do like touch them.

SPEAKER_02 16:01

When they collide, they turn into a a column. And there's this like big like column at the front, and it's like really massive. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:13

It's really cool, and and like Nash said before, which is really important to understand, if you were to touch these salagmites and salactites, it stunts its growth for 10 years, a decade, which is what Nash said. These things grow incredibly slow. So neat. Nature is so cool.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Oh, so if you see some something waxy in a cave, just don't really touch them.

SPEAKER_00 16:35

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

By the way, if you want to know how old we are, Nash is 10, and I am right like just turning eight this year. But every year you get older, so yep.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

We're brand spinking new on the eight. Yep. So I feel like everything we say it involves something steep or tall, which is wild, because we also did another steep, tall thing. This was called the incline. It's the really steep, uh, almost like a passenger train that you got on at the bottom of Lookout Mountain, and then you take the the incline railway up the mountain to get to the very top. And it was originally built basically because cars didn't exist yet, and they had to get people up the mountain. Um, and what's really cool about the incline railway is that it is the steepest uh passenger railway in the world or one of the steepest railways. It feels like you could fall completely foreign. That's how steep it is. Do you remember?

SPEAKER_01 17:35

Oh, and there was like it's called that was a lean.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

The actual car itself leans to accommodate the angle that it is.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

And mom said there was a 70-degree angle, but it wasn't. It's 90, it's 90.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

So angle is different from grade. So it's a 72.7, I just I looked it up. The steepest section is 72.7% grade, and that's roughly a 36 degree angle. If you think about most roads, they are like a 5 to 10% grade. This is 70% grade. You're basically almost going straight up. It was it was wild. I didn't think it it was towards the end was the steepest part. I didn't think I'd be scared. I didn't know to be scared, but when it started getting steep, I was like, what and also it kind of hurted your toes. Yeah, absolutely wild. But when we got to the top, there was you can even you could walk up and again see more reviews. There was a gift shop there. What was so surprising about that gift shop?

SPEAKER_02 18:33

Moon pies.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Moon pies. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

It was literally all a moon pie thing.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

And we're like, wait, what is going on with all the moon pies here? Um, what's a moon pie?

SPEAKER_01 18:43

It's it's a it's a so the wokos that like they wanted a snack as big as the moon, so that's how they created moon pies.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

They were they were made in uh 1917 as a snack, but it's more like a dessert, isn't that? That's kind of weird, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:59

And then also it's really not as big as the moon.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

It's not as big as the moon at all. But yeah, we did a separate video of a moon pie tasting, and we'll talk about that more in the next episode when we talk about all the food that we ate.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

Yeah, it's kind of like a samore.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

Yes. Wild. So lookout mountain incline railway. What's cool about this is it's all it's near Ruby Falls and um Rock City, so you can kind of bang these all out at once. The incline railway was kind of expensive. I was kind of surprised, but I mean it was it was cool. It's a cool story. Chattanooga had a lot of fun things to do. A lot of, I feel like Chattanooga had big time community gathering things to do. Oh, on the very last day, we went to the Tennessee Aquarium, which is supposed to be one of the best aquariums. Would you go back to that aquarium?

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Yeah? What was so cool about that aquarium that we really haven't seen before?

SPEAKER_02 19:47

There was like a freshwater room and there a freshwater building.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Yeah, it wasn't a room, it was a whole building.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

Yeah, and then there was a and then there was a like those like two buildings. Oh, and can I also tell you something? There was like this punching like thing, and I really like that.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Average person person punches um probably like a hundred PSI. And like a professional boxer is like 250, I think.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

No, it's it's 800. It's 800. I know it is 800.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

Uh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

It's just somewhere in the hundreds. The peacock mantishrip is uh it's a really cool creature. And and anything with a hard shell, kind of like a clam, it it like punches like so fast it's as fast as a bull.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Yes. Nothing but peacock manta shrimp is the coolest.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

And the and the hardest punching thing ever. And and I got to a hundred and I'm average.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Naturally, you average? Yeah. I think I got to average because I was using my um wrists, kind of like your bone of your wrists, and I kind of like smacked it. And yeah, and by the way, the peacock mantis shrimp is 1800 psi.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Yeah, it was bananas. Yeah, yeah. I've never actually seen it. We've seen a peacock mantis shrimp in a few different aquariums, and we still haven't seen it punch anything, huh? No, no. Nuts. Hey, you know what's weird? Inside the aquarium, what was the very first room that we walked through? Had nothing to do with fish or anything in water.

SPEAKER_01 21:25

It's not something to do with water.

SPEAKER_00 21:27

The very first room we walked in. Oh no, it wasn't the first room. It was a butterfly garden.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Oh wasn't that cool? Oh yeah! You guys won't believe this. One even landed on my hand. Otis got to and it we know we're not supposed to touch the wings, but it landed on Otis. So yeah, I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

It was it it didn't really feel anything. But yeah, I've never been in a room of butterflies before. That was really cool. I love that. Super beautiful. So, guys, wow, that was everything we did on our trip. Was there anything that you wouldn't do again? Or did you did you kind of like it all?

SPEAKER_02 22:02

I liked it all. You did?

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Like the horseback riding the most?

SPEAKER_02 22:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Me too.

SPEAKER_02 22:07

The horseback riding, in my opinion, was the favor was my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

What's kind of horse?

SPEAKER_02 22:13

Oh, you said yes, yes, yes. Guess what time it is?

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Truth trash! That's right. Okay, it's time for truth or trash. I'm going to give you three trivia questions, and you have to decide if I'm telling the truth or if I'm talking trash. Are you ready? Let's do it. Okay, I've got some real stumpers. Some you may have heard in our little conversation, but let's see if you were listening. Truth or trash number one. Lookout mountain is the tallest mountain in Tennessee. Trash. Trash. Gosh, it is trash. Okay, it's famous, but it's not the tallest. Tennessee has much higher peaks in the great smoky mountains. Good job. Well done, sirs. Truth or trash. Number two. You can see seven states from Rock City on a clear day.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Truth. Truth.

SPEAKER_00 23:04

Wow, you guys are getting all these. It is the arrows. It is true. From the famous Lover's Leap viewpoint at Rock City, they claim you can see Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia on a clear day. Okay. Finally, truth or trash number three. You can drive cars across the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga. Trash. Trash. Trash.

SPEAKER_02 23:30

I think it just recently closed.

SPEAKER_00 23:33

You got it's amazing how much you guys listen when I talk. I have to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Wait, is that true?

SPEAKER_00 23:38

You are three out of three, both of you. It is trash. The Walnut Street Bridge is now a pedestrian-only bridge, one of the longest of its kind in the US. Only people and bikes allowed, no cars. But like you said, unfortunately, it was closed for maintenance while we were there because I really wanted to walk across it. It is time for the Otis show.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

Otis has his would you rather would you rather read mines or freeze time? What? Like like I'm really excited to like love this moment. I wanna freeze it.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

Wait, freeze time or read mines?

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

I'd like to read mine. Same. Okay, well, I'm gonna think about this. You know, if I wanted to paint something and I could freeze time, that would be that would be pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Oh, that'd be a good way to heist something.

SPEAKER_00 24:28

I want to freeze time.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

Yeah, that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

Are you still gonna stick with your answer?

SPEAKER_01 24:31

No, I'm gonna freeze time. Freeze time. Freeze time. Nick the dad, what would you choose?

SPEAKER_03 24:37

Freeze time. 100%. Why? Because I would like this moment that we have together frozen until I want to pick it back up again.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Wow, isn't that cute? Okay, kids. Okay, grown-ups. If you go on the Chattanooga, don't don't forget to go to the Ruby Falls, visit Rock City, and don't forget to pack the kids.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

Bam.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Boom. Thanks for packing the kids and coming along. If you had fun, kindly leave us a review, send us an email, or just tell a friend. We'll be back with more places, more laughs, and probably more discussions about food. Am I right?

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Yeah. Yeah, a lot more.