Hanging out in Gatlinburg

After naps and pool time (with a water slide, the big boys were in heaven), we headed out to the Dixie Stampede for a dinner show. 

We stopped on the way for a photo op.

Before the show you hang out in a saloon for some drinks and a live band. The boys got souvenir mugs for their frozen drinks. They were very excited.

Then we headed into the show. It was a dinner show where you ate with your hands so we didn't get any pictures but it was great. They had a lot of horses and other animals including buffalo and pigs. All three boys were entranced. Patrick even watched the whole time without wanting to get down to run around. It was great. 

Here is one of the performers with her horse.

When we got back to the hotel, it was too early to go to bed, so we headed next door to the mini golf course. It had two complete 18 hole courses so we bought the two course package and got one round in that evening. 

Patrick has to work on his form but was enjoying himself.

This was the boys' favorite hole. It had a sensor so when your ball went down the hill, the gophers started singing.

After 18 holes we headed back to the hotel for a good night's rest and didn't wake up until 8:30 the next morning...

....where we played the other course.

Patrick loved watching this bear pop out of the hole to get his honey.

The course had a Davy Crocket theme including this fort which had a few multi-level holes.

We all got a hole in one at some point between the two courses, even Patrick.

This hole was my favorite. You picked which hole to shoot into (left or right) and it rolled into 

After golfing we headed to downtown Gatlinburg to walk around. We didn't get any photos but it is a really neat mountain town. We stopped in a candy store for some taffy, Old Smokey Holler for some moonshine, and a 3D movie shooting gallery for some fun.

This is the world's largest tire outside the Ripley's Believe It or Not. 

We had lunch at Dick's Last Resort, hats and sarcasm included...

 and then headed back to our little home in Alabama. It was a fantastic weekend get away.