The zip lines in Gatlinburg were amazing. Hope and I were with one other family, and one of them was afraid of heights. It was funny. Then it was really annoying . She did get through the whole course, but at the end there was a straight down one story drop, she backed out and took the stairs. The drop made you feel like you were falling to your death. At the bottom there were mountain goats, and Hope and I almost got lost because we wanted to pet them.
The chair lift was an almost vertical lift up the side of a mountain with a little piece of fabric to hold us in place. I was freaked out, and Hope thought it was fun to swing the chair when we were going up, and I was hanging on for dear life. At the top, they had cut out a little cave that was a gift shop. We loved it up there and bought all the gifts for family members up there. On the way down, there was a ton of stuff lost on the ground. The funniest thing was a designer Coach with everything still in it.
Friday, October 18, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
I just went to Gatlinburg with my best friend, Hope Handelsman. Sarah, (Hopes sister) was going to come as well, but something came up and she couldn't make it. We drove early in the morning and only stopped a couple of times. The car ride there was... Different. We had forgotten to pack anything to do in the car, so we did some really random stuff and tried to film the other person doing it.
We had to stop at Walmart once because my mom had forgotten her hair curler, and we had to stock up on food for the hotel. We had been constantly listening to Sail on Hopes iPhone and I spotted a display of pool noddles.I grabbed one and screamed, "SAIL!" Hit Hope on the head with it, them ran in the other direction. We continued to chase each other with noodles until my mom yelled at us. We ended up buying the noodles, but someone stole them but we didn't care because there pool noodles.
The first thing I remember seeing was the old-timey photo shop. It was where you could put on clothes from the 1800's and take some awesome pictures. No one wanted to take the pictures except myself, so I was disappointed. A couple of days later, we were all waiting on a train, and so we decided we could go look around. I convinced everyone to take a few pictures, and finally they agreed. So Hope and I started trying on everything.
At first we thought the Southern Belle outfit looked the best with all the fun colors and frilly dresses, until we saw the saloon girl outfit. We quickly changed I to that and the lady taking our pictures said to go sit on top of the bar. She came over with fake guns, and money bags. She spilt the props between us, and we looked amazing!
My favorite part of taking the pictures was when the lady told us not to smile, so I stopped and she started taking more pictures until she put her camera down and stared at Hope. I looked over at her and she had tears going down her face from smiling and laughing so hard. Suddenly everyone in the shop was laughing and crying all at once, and Hopes hat fell of her head and I dropped my guns... Twice! I had such a great time and our pictures turned out great.
We had to stop at Walmart once because my mom had forgotten her hair curler, and we had to stock up on food for the hotel. We had been constantly listening to Sail on Hopes iPhone and I spotted a display of pool noddles.I grabbed one and screamed, "SAIL!" Hit Hope on the head with it, them ran in the other direction. We continued to chase each other with noodles until my mom yelled at us. We ended up buying the noodles, but someone stole them but we didn't care because there pool noodles.
The first thing I remember seeing was the old-timey photo shop. It was where you could put on clothes from the 1800's and take some awesome pictures. No one wanted to take the pictures except myself, so I was disappointed. A couple of days later, we were all waiting on a train, and so we decided we could go look around. I convinced everyone to take a few pictures, and finally they agreed. So Hope and I started trying on everything.
At first we thought the Southern Belle outfit looked the best with all the fun colors and frilly dresses, until we saw the saloon girl outfit. We quickly changed I to that and the lady taking our pictures said to go sit on top of the bar. She came over with fake guns, and money bags. She spilt the props between us, and we looked amazing!
My favorite part of taking the pictures was when the lady told us not to smile, so I stopped and she started taking more pictures until she put her camera down and stared at Hope. I looked over at her and she had tears going down her face from smiling and laughing so hard. Suddenly everyone in the shop was laughing and crying all at once, and Hopes hat fell of her head and I dropped my guns... Twice! I had such a great time and our pictures turned out great.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
The Loveland Castle
My friends and I went to Loveland castle a couple days ago, so I'm going to write about it!
The idea for the castle was started by a group of people called The Knights Of The Golden Trail. Today they are still keeping the castle in shape. None of them new what was to come of this though. Some people were selling land and a knight, Harry Andrews, bought some of it. He was getting older and he was bored, he didn't think his life was very interesting. So one day he woke up and decided to build a castle. He did this successfully with almost no help from volunteers. Harry laid almost 4 million stones! When the castle was being built, people would brings things from all over the world so Harry could put them in the building. (Such as petrified wood, gold, diamonds, and even a meteorite!) The castle had almost 15 thousand visits in Harry life time. Today the castle is 87 years old.
I had a great time learning and visiting the castle. Thanks a lot to Sir Larry!! I got to see the inside, the garden, and the river where Harry collected the stones!
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