I love winter time especially when everything is covered in snow. I live in the South so I don’t get to see much snow. We decided to go on vacation we don’t even care where it is as long as it has lots of snow and great hot tubs. I started doing research online to find a place we would all enjoy and I ran across Gatlinburg, Tennessee. So last year was our first vacation there and it was gorgeous. Everyone had an amazing time.

I recommend looking on the internet to find a great place to vacation. You may be surprised when you see how many deals you can find for vacations. There are a lot of different vacation packages that you can usually find that will cover food, travel, and accommodations. You will want to know what type of accommodations you want before you start booking. Different places have different things to choose from like condos, cabins, hotels, chalets. It will depend on where you are vacationing as to which types they have.

We rented a cabin while in Tennessee and we all loved it. We were able to put on our sleepwear and gather around the fireplace to talk and tell stories. It was one of the highlights of the trip when we were just spending family time together. Of course if you go some where warm you will not need the fire place but it definitely makes for a cozy family moment.

After a while the children started to fall asleep by the fire and we covered them with a blanket and climbed on the couch together so we could read our suspense books. Personally I like to read action suspense type books but my wife always reads the romantic suspense type. This vacation brought my family together again even if it was just for a few days.

When you have teenagers and grown kids, they start to do there own thing so often that you barely see them anymore. A vacation like this is just what all families need to bring there family back together even if it is for a short time. Any time with your family is good time.

After finally deciding on a destination and booking the accommodations it is time to research. You will want to look for activities that the whole family can enjoy. My whole family wanted to learn how to ski so I found an instructor on a website and he gave us a few lessons while we vacationed. It was so much fun we all just can’t wait to get back.

If you don’t have your own ski equipment there are shops that you can rent them from. We bought each person in the family a ski helmet so they would be able to take it home as a souvenir but we rented the rest. It does not matter where you go or what you do as long as it is with the whole family. Family is what is important.