This is our last month to enjoy our Dollywood Season Passes Ryan's grandmother Betty gave us last year for Christmas. My favorite thing about Dollywood's Season Passes is when you purchase them in December, you get to enjoy the entire next year, including December, too!
Ryan's parents came up the first weekend he was gone (December 1) to come enjoy the lights with us.
Dollywood at Christmastime is seriously breathtaking!
My favorite tree. The white "drips" down the branches.
Let me just say, this was the most crowded it has EVER been when we've been there. We had to park in Splash Country parking! Wowsers, I guess everybody had the same idea we did!
We started our evening with the old-timey cars. Me and my girl got to ride together:
Then we grabbed dinner and ate while watching the parade. We had great seats away from the crowd!
Then to my favorite ride--the Ferris Wheel! Good grief there was such a wait. So Papaw watched the AL vs. GA game on his phone. :) Technology truly is amazing!
Papaw and Gavin rode together while Gram, Henley, and me squeezed in a seat. No pictures of that because that girl is a wiggler! Whew, quite scary so high up!
I did snap this picture at the top of the lights in the park. So gorgeous!! The picture can't capture how beautiful this is in person.
We all rode the Shooting Star ride (which is still amazing to me that 2-year-old-scaredy-cat-Henley rides it no problem!), but sadly no picture of that.
Gavin loves the games. Good grief they are such a waste of money, but he sure has a great time.
Gavin and Papaw's favorite part of the evening was the new Smoky Mountain Miniature Railroad they have set up this month.
It really was incredible! The kids loved checking out all the details:
Man, autostitch is an amazing app! Here's an overview of the whole train setup:
Papaw loves trains. Love is probably an understatement, actually. :) He had a blast chatting with the "conductor" about all the work they did and all the trains they had on display:
Gavin got to operate one of the trains for a bit:
Henley, not so much :)
Oh, this boy. It is such a fun Christmas seeing things through a 3 1/2-year-old's eyes!
We stayed until closing time, and on the tramride back, we took a picture to text to Dad:
And Dad, on a train in Boston, sent us a picture back! It was fun that we were both ending our adventurous days together on a train ride :)
We sure did miss him while he was gone. So of course we had to go again when he could go with us! Stay tuned...
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