Exploring

There is place called the Village that looks exactly like a Christmas village. It was so cool to walk around and visit some of the shops there. Very quaint :)

We didn't walk back into here at night, but we could see some of it from the road and it was gorgeous!!! It looked like a Kinkade painting. Even though it was raining we enjoyed exploring around here.

We also went to the Christmas Village. Across the street from this is the Christmas Inn too which was incredible looking. They take Christmas very seriously here :) We got so many good ideas walking around here!

Outside the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum was this huge granite ball (it said the weight was over 10,000 lbs) and it is floating on a flow of water. You can change the direction of the ball and we had a good time playing with that. It took very little effort at all to stop the ball from rolling and change it's direction. I'm sure the rest of the museum is very cool, but we didn't explore that this time around.

Oh, a funny thing, there was cool things all over Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge that looked like fun to go to. Clara kept yelling from the back of the car---"Lets go there!" On the way out she was getting so frustrated because we weren't' stopping at anything and she would make this totally exasperated sound to let us know her frustration. It was so funny---we laughed so hard!!!