Gatlinburg, and then on to Kentucky
Dory:
Today we do not have a Dory Quote of the day, because mainly if we had a Dory Quote today it would be a lot of displeasement. So yesterday we went to Gatlinburg, and we first went to Hollywood Star Cars where they had the ECTO-1 and the Batmobile. My Mom can make a gallery of the cars so you can see them. (All but one of the 50 photos were taken by Dory.)
Then we took the Skylift to the Skycenter to cross the Skybridge. Then when we crossed the bridge we took the Skytrail back. Afterthoughts of the whole Sky thing: I was terrified of the heights from the Skylift, the Skybridge was wobbly, and the Skytrail had the Tulip Tower where the bridges to it were wobbly too.
Photo by Stephanie.
I bought this tourist photo because Dory was smiling.
Photo by Stephanie. This selfie more accurately reflects how he felt about “the whole Sky thing.”
Then we got lunch at a chain restaurant called Mellow Mushroom and the restaurant we went to was actually the headquarters of the whole chain and was the biggest. Then we went to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!™ Odditorium where we saw things I believed. Then we went back to the RV and crossed states to get to Kentucky to see the Mammoth Cave.
Vivian, whose reflection is titled, “Tourist Trap Day”:
Hi friends! (And fam!) when we woke up today, we hustled to get ready to drive to the nearest trolley stop. We got there soon enough and waited for the trolley to come, after a minute, it did. We rode on the trolley until we got to the aquarium and got off. We didn’t go to the aquarium, mind. We walked to the Hollywood Star Cars museum, it had a lot of cool and famous cars inside, there was ECTO-1 from the Ghostbusters, Christine from the horror movie Christine, The Batmobile, and the Flintstone’s car. When we were finished looking at all the cars, we walked to the lift for the sky bridge. We rode up and walked across the bridge. We crossed and walked back on the sky trail.
Photo by Vivian. The SkyBridge is the longest pedestrian cable bridge in North America.
Photo by Stephanie.
Photo by Vivian. Dory was not a fan of the glass floor on the bridge.
Photo by Vivian. The Tulip Tower, built to replace the tulip tree that survived a big fire they had a few years back. The tree was damaged ,though, so they had to cut it down.
Photo by Stephanie. Dory insisted that he walk alone, so it would be less wobbly.
When we got back we were all feeling hungry, so we rode the lift back to Gatlinburg and found a restaurant that served pizza. Mom had a beer. After lunch, we crossed the street to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! There were a lot of weird-looking people inside.
Photo by Vivian. We did not get photos of any of the weird-looking people, but there were several optical illusions and sciency-fun things like this to play with as well.