Road Trip Day 7

My lovely B, didn't want to go white water rafting. It took the whole ride and then about 20 extra minutes to convince him to go for the ride that it wasn't scary and he would like it. He told mom about 20 minutes into the ride that he was sorry and he was having lots of fun. G could have gone and they said I could have too, but I didn't want to with being 5.5 months pregnant and I thougth G was too little.

While they were on the raft, G and I stayed on the dock and looked at the caterpillars, the other rafting boats going by, the workers putting in new steps (and throwing rocks-from the dirt where the steps would go-into the water), saying new words and walking to the car for drinks.

Mom said the tour guide, Mike, was telling them all about different trees and flowers they were seeing, about bears and snow and his trip to the aquarium. All in all, they all had a great white water rafting ride and S said he wasnted to do it everyday!

After that we had a late lunch at a McD's we found on the way back to Pigeon Forge (where we have been staying for the last week) and then found the post office.

When we were at the post office we heard a huge noise and then saw a helicopter land in the grass by the tree. An ambulance came shortly after that and after about 5 minutes it loaded someone from the ambulance to the helicopter and took off. N, S and G got a kick out of the helicopter being in the grass and N was taking pictures like crazy with his camera..... not that he was the only one!!

Then we went to Wally World and picked up my prescription and then stopped at one of the souvenier shops where I bought the post card (above). Actually I got 6 copies of it so we could send to everyone we want to send to. When we got back to the hotel, the room was way different than we came. The piece of the ceiling in the bathroom above the shower that was taped to the ceiling fell off onto N's foot this morning when he got into the shower so B took it down to the front desk and they sent the maintenance man. He ended up having the maid bring in new cover blankets, blankets and bed skirts. We told him about the lamp by the door flickering, the light above the sink taking so long turning on and about all of the plugs falling back into the wall when we tried plugging anything into them, so when we got back our beds had new blankets and the outlets were all fixed so now we can plug stuff in without them falling into the wall. It was a really nice surprise, but it came a little late in our stay since tomorrow is our last day! We are still sending out a letter to the manager and to the head chain on the hotel.

Now it is about 6 pm and we are getting ready to take a walk down to one of the souvenier shops down the street. Mom wants a picture of the pig mailbox that has been her marker to the street the hotel is on. I want to see if the souvenier shop has some bumper stickers for my car! Woo Hoo! Tomorrow is our last day in Pigeon Forge, TN!!