Dottie-Wood

We went to Dollywood, or Dottie-Wood as Elisha called it, for the first time back in May with Rusty's parents. My parents had some how given me the impression that it was really boring when I was a child, but we loved it. The workers was really nice, probably because they were seniors, not moody teenagers. The longest line we had to wait in was for chicken fingers. Dolly was there, along with Miley Cyrus and Kenny Rogers, but unfortunately, we didn't get to see her, even if Steve says we did. We missed the parade. Caleigh was happy because she was able to ride some big kid rides. Poor Elisha though...Ms. Wendy at church had mentioned the train at Dollywood, which I had pumped up to him, but he didn't get to ride it either day. That part of the park was closed for filming of a Dolly Hallmark movie. Since we're planning to go back with my parents in July, maybe he can ride it then.

Other memorable moments from our trip:

• going to Hillbilly Village, a Langford tradition; the man in the outhouse didn't say, "What 'cha lookin' at?"
• Grandma coming out of her room to ask Rusty for help getting Caleigh and Elisha back in the bed. Rusty found them in the closet playing with the vacuum cleaner and hiding under the bed. He said it seemed like monkeys had escaped from the zoo.
• Losing our keys, spending an hour to find them in the stroller
• not getting Krispie Kreme donuts

Geez-Paw, Elisha, Caleigh, and Josiah

Wet and not minding it

Hanging out with Geez-Paw

Riding the Pig

Steering with 2 wheels

Grandma and Josiah

Drenched rats in the family-sized dryer. Yes, Geez-Paw paid 3 dollars for us to get in the dryer. We got on what we thought was a little kid water ride and some overzealous grown men attacked us with water guns. Caleigh was very upset; she changed clothes multiple times because she didn't like being wet.

Baby Owl. Josiah was the best baby. He just hung out in the stroller most of the time. Geez-Paw only had to take him for a stroller ride one time to get him to nap.

Geez-Paw and Caleigh in a coffin. Geez-Paw was brave enough to ride a roller coaster with me. Mary Jane worried he was breaking the post-heart-attack rules. While we were riding, Caleigh said Geez-Paw was going to break his leg or get killed.