Dollywood

We headed out bright and early this morning for Pigeon Forge, TN . . . well maybe not so bright. But it was early . . . 4:30am early! But Dave planned this quick weekend trip away for just tonight so we wanted to make the most of our first visit to East Tennessee. It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful day. The weather was so cooperative! However, there was some crazy car show happening there that made traffic a little ridiculous. Took us about 45 minutes from O'Charley's, were we ate dinner, to our hotel and should have taken 4! But besides that nonsense, it was really a nice getaway.

Here's our day at Dollywood.

Charity, at our first snack stop about 6:30 am, and she's happy! :)

First "ride" . . . well, the first one I photographed!

On the elephant that goes up and down . . . and way too jerky I might add! Almost lost my breakfast with Charity controlling that thing!!

Doing the "lemon" twist!

This one makes Daddy lose his breakfast!

Getting hot . . . slushies time!

Checking out the ducks.

Big veggies!

The family with the big veggies . . . see Dave with the potato? Oh wait, he got cut off! The sun was so bright and it was hard to see what the camera was getting. Oh well! Thanks for trying, Gramma! :)

The carousel.

Pure glee!

Charity and Gramma (we're so glad Gramma came along to enjoy the fun day with us!)

Look out below!

This time, a sucker break!

We did some crazy wet ride! We were all soaked and a little chilly. Luckily it didn't take long to dry off.

. . . still completely soaked!

Or was it the $0.25 shower that drenched us?

There was even a playground! Luckily we didn't find it until the end of the day. Charity was pretty tired, so it wasn't too hard to get her away from it.

They are having a "Festival of Nations" theme. We caught a couple of interesting shows. One in particular I thought interesting, the Lithuanians. Happens to be were my maternal grandmother originated from. Dave says I get my "elfin" (pointy ears) from this culture? Maybe?

Guess she likes butterflies?!

Ouch! Who pinged my ear?!?

Stop bugging people Daddy!! :P