We spent the morning at the outlets just walking around. It was insanely packed. Like, Christmas Eve at Walmart kind of packed. Eek. But we were so lucky and got a great parking place and enjoyed walking around! Each of us found a couple of gifts and just soaked up the beautiful morning!
Then we headed to the Old Mill for lunch. I had been told that it was a must for a meal and that lunch was cheaper. So we went. We got a great seat by the window and enjoyed the water view!
The food was yummy and we were stuffed. I assumed we would head on over to Dollywood, but Mommie said going back to the hotel for a little bit to rest might be best. We were very careful all weekend to not let her over-exert herself and it was wise to do so. When all was said and done she said that she was so surprised that her back NEVER hurt her and that she felt sooo good the whole time. I really do think that taking breaks helped. And lets face it... i'm a lazy bum so i didnt mind :-)What was meant to be a short break turned into a TWO hour nap. Oops!
We headed on over to Patriots Park to park the van and take the trolly into Dollywood around 4pm. We (again) lucked up and got a parking place. We just happened to pass my aunt/uncle Marsha and Bobby who were there celebrating their wedding anniversary and later found out that they never did get a parking place and didnt get to go to dollywood that day! At the time, we didnt realize just how lucky we were!
We grabbed a map and list of shows and figured out our itinerary. Our first stop was on the backporch theater to hear the musical stylings of these guys. They were good, but we werent thrilled. I was hoping it would get better (it also wasnt dark yet so we couldnt really appreciate all of the lights, etc at this point).
Our next stop was for the iceskating show. We got in line at 5:30pm for a 6:30 show! And I'm glad we did... it was PACKED! And was by far the BEST show there. The music/singing was so great and we loved seeing the skaters. It was a real treat. Shlaine actually stood in line while Mommie and I walked around and got some fudge and hot chocolate for each of us (including S).So during the show we enjoyed our warm drinks and soaked it all in!
We snapped a couple of shots in front of this beautiful tree!
We continued to walk around for a bit before setting up to see the carol of the trees. I love this show!
A very nice lady took this pic for us!
We ended the evening by watching "home for the holidays". This time I stood in line while Mommie and Shlaine explored a bit :-) I met a nice guy in front of me who is a pastor of a church in NC and he and his wife have also done babywise with their children. We had a great chat :-)(people, like Shlaine, often wonder how I find out such personal things about people in a 5 minute conversation but really... its not like i probe! its just a natural thing for me, i guess!)
We ended the night w/ a stop by the Merry Christmas sign!
We didnt freeze and really had a GREAT time. I wish we'd have gotten there a little sooner, but in all honesty, it may have been best that we got there when we did. Like i said, Mommie did great the whole time and never got to hurting and thats whats important!Sunday morning we got up and once again enjoyed the continental breakfast before heading out. On the way home there was a lot of traffic at this one spot... turned out people were bear watching!
And for this pic i rolled down the window and went 10mph :-) There was no one behind us!
I am so glad we got to go on this trip with mommie. What a wonderful way to celebrate HER!
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