To Dollywood......again.....

This past Wednesday morning, we loaded up the car and went to Pigeon Forge for the 4th time this year.......(I think we're trying to break some kind of record....). We only stayed Wednesday night, though.

Well......Wednesday.....it rained......and rained......and rained........and rained some more.

(this is out the door of the Hotel looking at the car...)

We did go on to Dollywood, though. That's why we went....to take Creston to Dollyood 1 more time before it got cold.....(and before the economy keeps us from going anywhere EVER again!!).

(They are having their Gospel and Harvest Celebration now...thus...the Tractors!)

I figured...."It's a Water-Park! You're supposed to get wet!" However, we bought Poncho's to keep us semi-dry. (Sorry, Mark, about the closed-eye shot!)

Dollywood had all of their BEAUTIFUL decorations up. I just love fall at Dollywood!!!

There was a feller there making Molasses. It smelled really good! The picture below is of Mackie waving to the man's horse. He waved and said "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!".
The Big Thing of the Dollywood Trip was that My Husband, in all of his infinite wisdom......took our 3 1/4 year old son Creston on the Blazing Fury Roller Coaster. Now.......he WAS in fact tall enough to ride.......but he's a bit afraid of anything out-of-the-ordinary......so I was a bit scared for all of us. There wasn't anyone in line to ride since it was such a yucky day, so I wheeled Mackie and his stroller along with Creston down the ramp and asked the worker-person if she thought that it would be a good idea or not...she said she thought that it would be fine...(Mark was at this time riding it by himself). So....I allowed my oldest child to get on that ride with his father....

(here he is...poor little unsuspecting thing...)

and here they are....alive and well!

When he got off the ride, he was fine, happy, and excited...as the "shock" wore off, he declared that he would not be riding that ride again.....at least he didn't try to jump off the ride while it was in motion!

This is a really pretty shot of the mountains behind Gatlinburg. The clouds are hugging the outline of the mountain so that it looks just like SNOW!!!! Whoo-Hoo!!! Snow!!! Love it!!!That's all of my info. on Dollywood! I'll post about the rest of the trip tomorrow!!!!!