This morning started out with swimming in the indoor pool for Tony and the kids from 8-10am. They did not get to go swimming yesterday so thought they needed to find a way to get that in for sure today. Afterwards we headed off to the Tennessee Museum of Aviation. Quinn couldn't figure out why I didn't think it would be busy with tourists. Of course he loved it and with him mostly at the camera controls, we came out with 98 pictures of this site. Wow... would anyone like to sit through all of these for him? He was able to "talk shop" with the volunteer on the hanger floor, discussing airplanes, and which airplane performed better in WW II etc... Quite interesting to watch. He was quite conversational with the gift shop lady... even told her that "When I grow up, I'm thinking about moving here, so I can come here every single day." Needless to say he LOVED IT! Madison, on the other hand, barred it as well as a big sister could. : ) (See photo)
We went to the Forbidden Caverns in Sevierville in the early afternoon. This is a large cave that goes as deep as 650 feet. We took a walking tour for about 1 hour through the cave and saw stalagmites, stalagtites, the largest area of onyx in the US, a small river flows through it... it was very cool and educational for all of us. Some of the stalagtites are pencil thin and hang down really low. We were instructed not to touch the walls of the cave and I told Tony is was all I could do not to reach out and snap one of those things off!! It was a complusion I wanted to act on so badly!!! :) Quinn gathered a bunch of dandelions outside and presented me with the bouquet right before we walked in. He was so proud of himself and so sweet... I carried those crazy things for the next 1 1/2 hours!!!
We went to the Forbidden Caverns in Sevierville in the early afternoon. This is a large cave that goes as deep as 650 feet. We took a walking tour for about 1 hour through the cave and saw stalagmites, stalagtites, the largest area of onyx in the US, a small river flows through it... it was very cool and educational for all of us. Some of the stalagtites are pencil thin and hang down really low. We were instructed not to touch the walls of the cave and I told Tony is was all I could do not to reach out and snap one of those things off!! It was a complusion I wanted to act on so badly!!! :) Quinn gathered a bunch of dandelions outside and presented me with the bouquet right before we walked in. He was so proud of himself and so sweet... I carried those crazy things for the next 1 1/2 hours!!!
We had made 5pm supper reservations for the Hoot 'n Holler dinner show at Wonder Works. It was an Italian meal with entertainment while we ate in the form of singing, some special "tricks" with audience participation and during the dessert they started the highlight of the night which was a mini-play about Paul Bunyan. They needed audience participation for some of the parts and wouldn't you know that out of the 4 parts, Tony was one selected! To make a long story short he came out at the end dressed as a baby... complete with a tablecloth diaper, bonnet, bottle, rattle and "cried" into the microphone. It was just hilarious. Quinn was nearly beside himself with laughter. I video taped the whole mini-play (against the rules). Quinn has teased Tony A LOT now about him being a baby and needing his diaper changed etc... HA!!
We stopped at the Super Walmart on our way home from the show because they had a kiosk that I noticed earlier in the week. You could pick out a design and an artist would spray-brush your design on t-shirts with your name on it. Since we've never ever found anything with Quinn's name on it I thought that would be perfect for him. They loved picking out their designs and Madison and I watched him work on the shirts. Of course there is a story behind this too with the shape of the "Q"... the artist painted the slash coming straight out of the 7 o'clock position instead of at 5 o'clock and it took some talking to the lady at the desk to even get her to talk to the artist about it ("that's just how he makes his Q's"... and from me "well my son can't find anything with his name on it and this Q is wrong and I want it to be right!"....insert a SIGH!!!) soooo, the artist didn't find it to be a big deal and fixed it perfectly by making all of the letters more bold in style. Easy fix... hassle to get it done though!!
By now it was 8:30-9 and so we went back to the condo and played some cards on our last night in the smokies. The kids went to bed and Tony and I watched our Redbox Rental of "Pursuit of Happyness" (mispelled word intended) with Will Smith... it was very good. So, it was a late night but such a fun day. I asked everyone how they would grade their day. Tony's neck/headaches weren't bothersome at all, the t-shirt turned out OK and so we all gave it an A+ of a day. Quinn gave it an A+ with about 50 +'s behind it... so much I had to tell him to cool it down a bit.
Well, I know this was a long post tonight. It was an adventuresome day. We all agree that we have loved the Smokies and hope to come back. We only touched on a small percentage of things that you could possibly do here. Wish you all were here with us!
Love to all, Leah
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