EDIT: I do have s'more piccies and such to upload this week.
Also had to update for this piece of awesomeness:
[link] I will totally hide in a corner in B&N to see as much of this as I can without purchasing it! (Anticlimactic, but I have too many things on my buy list right now)
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Yup, I'm home from our family trip to the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and King's Island amusement park in Ohio. I was pretty much ready to be home, I'm not sure how many more southern accents I could stand to hear.

The Smokies were a nice, relaxing getaway. Not quite as stunned as I was in Alaska, but in fairness I didn't really get to see as much of them as I did the Last Frontier. I would have liked to have seen more wildlife, but my sister whines and moans about hiking. So, sadly no bear sightings...

King's Island was better than I expected. We got to ride all the big coasters but two: Son of Beast was undergoing maintenance, and some man with respiratory trouble died after riding the Firehawk not long before we got there, so obviously it was closed out of respect. My favorite coaster was Diamondback, their newest: It had this menacing howl that really added to the character of the ride.
Expect pictures!