Still beautiful days here in Tennessee!

We are still having nice weather with a bit of rain here and there. But it is not to
cold to leave.....two more days at Dollywood then they close for one week to get
4 million Christmas lights up! We cannot wait - many people here just waiting
for the Christmas time theme, just like us...

So many shows!

We are planning our days by who is singing next, so far we have seen more than a dozen Gospel Singer groups....awesome..
This is the Palmetto Quartet and the guy on the right is Naomi Judd's husband and owner of the quartet.....

Gotta go off to Dollywood again......we got our money's worth and met some nice people at our park....

Dolly's house!!!

12 people lived in a house just like this....
Dolly has come along way...baby.....

Oh Crap!!!!

We went on a few rides....ok I am a whimp...the second
ride made me sick.....

Our third year without our grandson, Mark!

We hate this day as it reminds us that we now live on without our beloved grandson, Mark!
He would have been 25 years old now. RIP

Ok Sissy here is where we are!!

Ok Ok here we are!!!!

We are still at the same campground since October 1st.
It is called TVA headwaters.....

The trees are beautiful now!

Not sure how long this will last but the trees are all turning
beautiful colors. We have been here 3 weeks now and are
planning to stay until November when Dollywood has there
Christmas lights all up, 4 million of them!

Sha-Kon-o-Hey!

Sha-kon-o hey is the wonderful story in Dollywood about
how the mountains live within the people here. Dolly
wrote all the songs, it was a good show. We saw it twice.

Another fun, fun day!!!!

We have never had a day like this before. We spent the day doing nothing but having fun!!!
We started with a long walk then we had made a wonderful lunch outdoors and cooked on
the fire pit. Onions, bell peppers and smoked sausage, with potatoes and for dessert baked
apples. No dinner we were still full!!!!!
Beautiful sunny, warm day!

Icicles on the way to the summit!!!!

Icicles

Fall and Winter!

The bottom of this picture is the beautiful colored trees and on top
are trees covered in snow...It was cold on the Smoky Mountain summit.

Kingdom Heirs!

Best Gospel group I have ever seen. The Kingdom Heirs!
In Dollywood - we are going to see them again today!

A fun day with friends!

Gene, Martha, me, Gordon, Mary and Elaine just spending
time together at dinner....in the Douglas Dam Headwater in
Tennessee.

A dryer!!!

After you are totally wet from a ride you can get into this dryer and dry off for $3...

The new show!!!

On November 7th starts the new Christmas show....will we be there....depends on the weather.

Dolly's relatives!!!

Dolly employs lots of her relatives....we enjoyed the show!

Did you know this???

We love the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee!

We are having the very best time....we changed our one day Dollywood entrance pass for a Seasonal Pass.....we are planning to stay here for well over one month.....we love Dollywood and can come and go as we please......we want to be here when the theme of the park changes from Gospel and Harvest Celebration to Christmas time. But we will leave if the weather gets real bad. So far the weather has been great.....

Sunsphere

This is a brilliant gold sphere that we just had to investigate.
This sphere was built for the World's Fair Pavilion in 1982 - we went
to the top for a view of the whole city...

A Smokey Mountain Picnic!

Another fun filled day picnicing with Mary n Elaine in the Smokey Mountains.

We found the free trolley!!!

Oh yeah there is such a thing as a FREE RIDE we know we
found it.....fun!!!
Mary n Elaine.

Getting our walking tour of Knoxville!

We walked our butts off in Knoxville, TN. Nice day!!!
Gordon, me, Elaine and Mary!

Great friends - lots of fun!!!

Elaine and Mary are like the best people ever!!!
They are joining us for about one week while we are still
in Douglas Dam in Tennessee!

The Pumkin Christmas Tree

We decided to update our day pass for Dollywood to a Season Pass so that we could take our time visiting Dollywood.
So we spent one day, had lots of fun and did not rush around. We will stay for a couple of weeks and maybe even
longer....