Our fourth day in Tennessee we spent at Dollywood. I was very excited about this day b/c I had only ever been to the park once before. I knew Colby would love it after experiencing Disney World plus he's older now and I figured he would understand a lot more. He got into it right away. The first place we took him was to the 50s area where they have the old timey car rides. He loved looking at the antique cars that were parked all around. I swear we could have stayed there all day! He ofcourse loved the car ride...I rode with him and Austin followed behind us in a pink car ;). After the cars we took him over the carnival section. That section had the most rides that Colby could ride. He rode the Veggie Tale rollercoaster with Austin. This was his second little kiddie rollercoaster he rode one in Disney. Austin said he was holding on tight..I think he likes it but isn't quite sure yet he isn't scared just not quite sure I guess. Next I rode the flying elephants and spinning tea cups with him. He loved both of those. He talked about those a lot the rest of the trip! Then we all 3 rode the carousel. He is really into carousels these days riding horsies he says.
Next we saw on the map they had a few play areas so we set off to find those. There were actually 2 really close together. This was so nice about Dollywood. We let him play for about 30 minutes. This was my biggest complaint about Disney World was there were not enough places for toddlers to run and climb. He had a great time burning off some energy! After he played for awhile we set out to find a place for lunch. We ended up back in the 50s area and ate outside at the hamburger place. It was a gorgeous day so eating outside was great. This allowed Colby to get up and down and run around as much as he wanted!
After lunch we chose to ride the train. We figured this would be a good unwinding activity! Colby was so excited about the train too. It was a real coal powered train. The total ride was about 30 minutes and Colby was so good the whole time he just looked and stared. Afterwards we decided to go back to the cabin to relax and let Colby nap. We planned on coming back that night but we knew he needed a break. he would have been so cranky if we would have stayed all day! Unfortunately he fell asleep in the car on the way back and naturally never did take a nap. Even though he didn't nap it was still nice to have the down time for all of us. We would have been so worn out if we would have tried to make it all day.
By about 4 we got dressed and headed back to the park. We knew we wanted to let him ride the cars again so we went straight to that. This time Austin rode with him. I think he enjoyed getting to drive both his parents around. We then decided we better go ahead and get dinner. I didn't want to take a chance waiting until close to the park closed. We ate at a country buffet. The food was ok but I am just not a huge buffett person. I think we probably could have found a better place but it was still nice. After dinner we wanted to ride one more ride. We went to part of the park we didn't get to that morning. They had a slow paced water ride that Colby could ride on. When we saw how wet people got though we hesitated. But Austin decided he and Colby would go ahead and ride. They did get pretty wet but Colby didn't seem to mind too much. It was the last ride and we were headed home to put him straight in the tub so it wasn't a big deal!
We had a great day! I love Dollywood and I think Colby did too! I can tell he's going to love rides and themeparks! It was neat to see how much he had already grown up since Disney World. Hopefully we will get to take him back to Dollywood in the next year or 2.
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