Tour de Tennessee

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Jack had a few days vacation burning a hole in his pocket (ha!) so we decided to take a little mini "playcation" with the kids. We hit the road for Rocky Top.

We spent the first two days of our tour in Pigeon Forge. Highlights from part one of the trip were Splash Country water park followed by a dinner comedy/music show and fun at the museum until midnight and a GREAT day at Dollywood the next day. Beautiful weather, short lines and some fun rides and we will definitely make another trip to visit Ms. Parton!

Part two was just as magical, but in a different kind of way. We booked a package called "Children's Fantasy" at the famous Chattanooga Choo Choo hotel. We even got to sleep in an old Victorian-decorated rail car. It was gorgeous! Our first day in Chattanooga, we had a yummy breakfast and played on the real Choo Choo, then drove a few miles to the city zoo. There we saw a cougar close up, pet some goats and rode the carousel. Back at the station, we had lunch on the Silver Diner dining car and the took the electric bus a few blocks to the Children's Discovery Museum. There, the kids played dress-up, created music and art and even learned a little Grossology about human anatomy! Dinner Saturday was an awesome singing show where the talented wait staff multi-tasked between taking our orders, grooving on stage and serranading the dinner guests. After Kinsey was sung to by our waiter, she quickly told me she would crawl under the table if he came with the microphone again--cute! Our last day was spent at the Tennessee Aquarium and Imax. The afternoon turned out to be so beautiful, we stuck around and played by the river a while before loading up and heading home. It was a beautiful, fun-filled weekend that we all enjoyed and certainly wore us all out! :)