Today got up early, before 7am and had coffee and sat out on the screen enclosed deck off the kitchen/dinning area. Dad and grandma joined me. Sat around enjoyed family and a couple cups of coffee. Headed back to room to start getting ready for the day. Mari finally up, she went down to have breakfast and to talk about today's activities. They scheduled a dinner show with the Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner Attraction for the 8pm showing. We would have to pay and pickup the tickets before noon today. They also decided to do the Titanic museum and Ripley's Believe it or not. By the time everyone ate breakfast, got dressed and ready to go it was 11am. We headed to the first stop to pickup tickets, Dixie Stampede arena. From there we headed to the Titanic museum. Mom & dad headed off to do their own thing.
The Titanic was enjoyable and educational. The downside was they did not allow any cameras and wanted you to turn off your mobile phone because they would supposedly interfere with the audio equipment. Basically you get to hear about the history of the Titanic being built, live accounts of the sinking of the ship from survivors and finding the titanic. They even have a pool of water that was 26 degrees with a timer to see how long you can keep a finger or hand submerged. This was the temperature of the water when the Titanic actually sunk. I tried keeping my hand submerged twice, the first time for a minute and then second time 1 minute 15 seconds. Mari only lasted a 15 seconds. Ryan lasted a about 30 seconds. They even provide souvenir portraits with your picture superimposed on the Titanic staircase, boiler room, and the bridge. Mari had me buy a set. Jason also bought a set with us himself, Ryan and me in it.
After the Titanic we had a quick bit to eat at McDonalds. Yea, I know what your thinking but we wanted to save a few dollars eating a inexpensive lunch. We then headed over to Ripley's Believe it or not. Again, all interesting. Lots of interesting and neat things.
From here it was about 4:40pm we headed back to the cabin for a quick break and to get mom, dad and grandma. Then off to the Dixie Stampede. Again, NO photography or video recording. We had to show up at the Dixie Stampede by 6:45pm to get to the pre-show entertainment. We sat above the stage in the Carriage Room. The entertainer was funny. After the 45-minute act we headed off to our seats in the main arena. The menu consisted the following, hot home-made biscuit served with original creamy vegetable soup, then tender whole rotisserie chicken, hickory smoked barbecue pork loin with herb-basted potato and buttery corn on the cob, then finally for desert it was a flaky apple pastry. The meal was served throughout the show. The show was great and the food was excellent. I differently recommend this show, it is well worth the money. From here everyone headed back to the lodge. Sounds like we will be splitting up the groups. Ryan, Mari and I heading to Silver Dollar City. Michelle, Breack and Phoenix heading off to do their own thing. Jason was still up in the air. Mom, dad and grandma doing something, they didn't know what yet.
So off to bed. Sounds like the gate opens at 9:30am and Mari will want to get there early.
