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Mountains – Gatlinburg

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Last weekend we ran away from work early and booked it to the mountains. It used to be that the women in the family would take a weekend away to go shopping somewhere and just get away, but has changed into an anybody that wants/can go kinda thing. This year (the first year either of us have gone along) we stayed in a cabin on the side of a mountain in Gatlinburg, TN. The view was great, the rooms were big, there was a pool table and an arcade machine and a hot-tub and a movie theatre.

Our little camera is broken, it won’t open the lens at all, just jerks and sputters and gives up, and we didn’t feel like hauling our big cameras around, so we only have a few phone pictures to show. ByTheWay, anyone that wants to get rid of a small point-and-shoot camera can inquire within.

Friday while we were on our way up everybody else went shopping at Tanger, which is fine with us because we don’t have money for shopping anyways. Saturday we walked around Gatlinburg in the rain then went to the Dixie Stampede, Dolly Parton’s more wholesome version of Medieval Times, with cowboys. Advice for vegetarians: eat before you go, the generic pasta they served me was gross.

We also played black-light mini golf, which was lots of fun, and did go-karts with my dad. When we went to Panama City Beach earlier this year with Mike and Jenny we found out we like go-karts. Lori screams because it’s too fast at first then gets into it and screams to go faster. There are a bazillion tracks to pick from in Pigeon Forge, we chose the one next to the goofy golf course (not really Goofy Golf, but close). The only problem was going up and down the spirals so many times got boring. Nobody else was around us and the guys running it let us keep going on and on and on and on and on and on and on because nobody else was there to ride. It was still fun though, Lori even liked the hill you go over that turns your stomache, and she absolutely hates that stuff.