Pigeon Forge (Fri.)

Today's Excellent Adventure was Pigeon Forge.  After breakfast which I actually cooked, we fueled car again and headed out 321 to Pigeon Forge, only 15 miles but a pretty curvy road.  Pigeon Forge reminds me a little Bransn, MO.  It has lots of shows, mostly of the country music and country humor variety, along with lots of shops.  I guess it is known for the Outlet shops here, whereas Gatlinburg has lots of little touristy shops.  As we drove down the main drag, we could see there would be lots of fun things for kids to do here -- lots of miniature golf, race cars, bumper boats, etc. 

There's also lots of eating places here, and motels with pools.  We drove on up the main street (which is not main street) and ended up in Sieverville, which really adjoins Pigeon Forge.  That's where we saw the bigger outlet mall, Tangiers.  I bought 2 new pair of Easy Spirit tennis shoes, so I'll be stylin'.  It wasn't raining right on us, but there were clouds all around and the rivers were running full so we thought it must be raining pretty heavily in the mountains.

Joe spotted some road signs that explained some of his confusion.  He said, no wonder he got turned around the other day.  We''ve been saying all week that these Tennessee people have some strange road signs down here.

 A lot of the business in both Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg have water features.  Joe snapped this one out his window as we came back into Gatlinburg from Pigeon Forge.  It was a bit more grand than most.

One place we had driven by several times on the scenic drive back to the campground but never stopped turned out to be a highlight.  There's a sign warning of swift water, and a walkway around.  We assumed it was just another site along the river, but it was rushing water with a lot of power.  This is called "The Sinks."  We kept trying to get better photos.  Joe even cllimbed up on the concrete wall to get a better shot.

We got back to the RV about 5:30 to rest for a bit.  Joe actually laid down but I don't think he ever went to sleep.  I talked on the phone and worked on my blog until it was time to go to dinner -- back to Fireflys.

Apparently this is firefly season here, a big deal I guess.  There were some kind of firefly events at the visitor centers last night, and our little restaurant is extending its hours this weekend because it is "firefly season."  So on last night's EWVD, we paid attention to the fireflies we saw -- and we did see some.