For our wedding gift, Kevin's parents gave us a week at Wyndham Vacation Resorts, which was an amazing condo. It was a one bedroom, full kitchen/dining room, living room, huge bathroom with a whirlpool and a cute little deck.
As soon as we got everything settled, we went to Applebees for dinner, we were starving ... and, we also went to WalMart (go figure) to some milk for our breakfast.
Day 1 of our Honeymoon
We went to Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum in Gatlinburg, went shopping on the strip all day and ate a good lunch!!! It was a lot of fun! I saw the Hollywood Wax Museum AFTER Ripleys and ha wished though that we went there. I've always wanted to go to a Wax Museum.
Do you think they are related?!?! haha
For dinner, we went to Mr. Gatti's Pizza or something like that. We ate pizza and then played in an arcade, it was pretty fun!!!
Day 2:
Today is Monday, we went shopping ALL day!! Kevin got a lot of clothes for school. It was a fun day, tomorrow is my "school clothes shopping" day!
Tonight, we went and watched Cirque de Chine, incredible!! Just look at the pictures and you tell me.
Thanks goodness for camera timers, sitting in front of the palace where we watched Cirque de Chine.
This hurt my legs & back just watching them!
They are sooooo flexible!
Day 3:
It's Tuesday, Sheena's day of shopping, wow, I never spend money on myself so it was very nice, didn't get a whole lot, but did get a few things. We went to IHOP for breakfast, it was good, but we've since found an amazing place to eat breakfast while we are in Tennessee. It's called, FlapJacks Pancake Cabin. Anyone who knows me knows I don't like pancakes and let me tell you, this place is amazing!!!!!!! Also, this day, we visited the PentHouse Suite at Wyndham where Arnold Palmer & Tom Petty stay. It's crazy huge!!!! That night, we went to a Ripley's Putt-Putt golf course, it was really cute .... and, at the last whole which was difficult, if you got a hole-in-one, you won a free game .... guess who got a hole-in-one .... MEEEE!!! It was soooo exciting!!!!!
All the characters are the course were farm animals, too cute!!
Look at that free ticket at the bottom of the screen :)
Day 4:
Wednesday, I'm sure we either ate breakfast at the condo or went out, I don't remember though. I do know that we went to The Dixie Stampede that night. It was really neat and had great food! We dressed up really cute :)
Us on our way to the show!
The sign for Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede
Day 5:
Today, we got up really early to hike up the Smokey Mountain to Laurel Fall. Today, something happened that we'll never ever forget. We were about .5 miles up the moutain, mind you, this is 2.6 round trip so we just got started, Kevin was just ahead of me and said, "oh my gosh!!!" I said, "what?" and looked ... it was a momma bear coming right at us ... and the bad part, she had three cubs. She was heading towards us very quickly .... I was fliiiiiiiiiiping out!!! We just walked slowly backwards, trying to take pictures w/out the flash disturbing her. After about 5 minutes, she took her cubs and climbed down the mountain. We continued our hike. Later, someone said there was a male black bear, but lucky for us, we didn't run into him .... good thing!!!
Can you see the bear? We were a lot closer, but in order to get the picture, we backed away so the flash didn't make her any more angry than she probably already was...
Us in front of the Laurel Fall, isn't it pretty :)
For lunch, we went to a place that Kevin's dad told us about, The Old Mill, it was a lot like BearsMill, but with great food and lots of shops to go to.
On Thursday evening, we went to WonderWorks which is really a neat place, we only went through it for about an hour and then we had to head to our Dinner Show. If you ever make it to Tennessee, go to Hoot N Holler, it's hilarious!!!!! We loved it!!!!!!
Day 6:
Today is our last, full day to do anything fun and exciting. I slept in today, I was exhausted, after finally getting around, we went back to WonderWorks. It's such a neat place, we can't wait to take Andrew there, he'll love it! We didn't have much more to go through so we went through it rather quickly ... on our way out, we were stopped by a woman, she offered us $100 cash, a free lunch to go listen to a TimeShare speech, we are like sure, we have nothing better to do. We headed there, ate lunch, go a 90 minute speech, got $100 bucks ...... and BOUGHT OUR FIRST BIG THING TOGETHER, A WEEK IN A CONDO, every year for the rest of our lives, our children's lives, their children's lives, etc ... I'm sure you get it. This place is AMAZING!!! It has he 2nd largest indoor water park in the world ... with a retractable roof .... it has 22 swimming pools, a spa, a movie theater, tennis, a view of Bob Parker's mansion (just thought that was neat) - and soooooo much more!! After we were done with the deed and everything, we used our money we made and got a nice dinner in town. I got a sandwich and fries, Kevin got a HUGE steak. It was neat. After all was said and done, we headed back to the condo, packed our bags, loaded them in the car and headed to bed.
This is the water park at our NEW condo!!!! Pretty sweet, huh?!?!
Day 7:
We woke up at 7, went to breakfast in Gatlinburg, got the car washed and headed home. We made awesome time, we returned home at 4 p.m. - I am glad to be home, but said that our honeymoon is over :(
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