We hope everyone had a very good Thanksgiving. At the Minnihan household, we are very thankful for all of our family members. We are especially thankful for Keith’s Aunt and Eleanor especially to be able to share another Thanksgiving with us even though we were in separate states.
Katelyn had a good Thanksgiving and we spent it with my parents sharing dinner. In the morning of Thanksgiving, Katelyn woke up with an ear infection. She ended up sleeping half the day away and we just hung loose until she decided to wake up for Thanksgiving dinner and then had dinner and went back to bed. Friday, I was going to go shopping, but 3am came very early and decided to just shut off the alarm completely because nothing was that worth it to get up that early in the day. My plan originally was to go to Kohl’s at 4am, then Wal-Mart at 5am and then Target at 6am, but sleep was more important when I awoke at 3am as Katelyn kept us up most of the night the night before and some Thanksgiving night.
Friday morning when we did awake, we had to go searching for an open doctor as Katelyn’s ear still hurt her and we were heading out of town to Gatlinburg. We finally found one open and only had to wait 1.5 hours until she was seen, which was good for a Friday when most were closed. She ended up being given amoxicillin to help her and we ended up high tailing it out of town to Gatlinburg. We went through the Smokey Mountains and saw an elk and at the top of the mountains, we saw winter wonderland and Katelyn got some pictures taken in the snow. On the way back down the mountain it took us almost 2 hours to get into Gatlinburg as traffic was tied up by something in the woods. Who knows what it was, but a lot of people were stopping. We ended up just going to the hotel and checking in as Katelyn and Keith were sick and needed to go to bed asap.
Saturday, we got up and walked the whole town of Gatlinburg up and down the streets. We were actually looking for the Dinosaur museum, but forget to check out what town it was in and it was actually in the town of Pigeon Forge which was 5 miles further down the street. We ended up doing that on Sunday though. As we were walking, we passed by several souvenir shops as well as Cooter’s and we saw Cletus from the Dukes of Hazard original show. We ate at Bennetts for dinner and had some ribs. Saturday night we saw a light show through the town that the city puts on. We also met someone from South Florida where Keith and him were chit chatting about people they knew.
Sunday, we just had to eat at another pancake house, but didn’t know exactly where to go. We ended up at an international pancake house where everyone who worked there was from another country. We learned on the light show tour thought that Gatlinburg has 0 unemployment, so maybe a place to go if you are ever looking for a job. After breakfast, we headed to Pigeon Forge to see the Dinosaur Walk Museum. It had replicas of dinosaurs, but very small. Then we ended up going shopping at some outlet malls and then headed for Dixie Stampede. Katelyn loved seeing the horses there and rooted for the South to win. After the show was over though, she had to get all the horse performers to sign her flag. She had a great time, but not as fun as swimming later that night.
Monday, our day was busy. We got up in the morning and had to go to the Pancake Pantry where we saw the line out the door and around the corner on Saturday. They were good pancakes, but not sure why the line was that long. I had cornmeal pancakes and Katelyn had M and M pancakes and Keith had blueberry pancakes. They were good and very filling. Then we went to play putt putt that was indoors with a black light. The score was very close between all of us, but that is the only putt putt that Carolyn remotely was going to win. Then we headed off to the aquarium. The Gatlinburg aquarium seems to be better than the Atlanta aquarium. They had a lot more unusual fish and they had a great tunnel for us to go through. After that Keith and Katelyn went to play putt putt again at a jungle putt putt indoor area and Katelyn was very good at it. She almost beat Keith and he was trying to win! Then at night we went to Black Bear Jamboree and saw their Christmas show. The food was very good there and the show kept Katelyn entertained. Of course though, she didn’t forget about swimming, so we swam then went to bed.
Tuesday, we headed for Cherokee and then home. While in Cherokee we visited the Indian Museum and Katelyn was very bored in that museum as the only thing she liked was the movie. We also stopped off at our time share to play a little putt putt golf again. Again, Katelyn beat us. She might be the next Tiger Woods if we don’t watch out. Then we made it home in the pm for mom to check her emails and then off to work again.
We hope everyone has a great holiday season!
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