Flying Pigs

See the flying pigs?  Yes, we came back to Old MacDonald's Mini-Golf Course.  Last year we had a really fun thing happened - over the course of a  few different games, each of us had gotten a hole-in-one on the very last hole of each course.  It's a challenging thing, and doesn't happen terribly often (it didn't happen today for any of us!).  So for all three of us to get this was pretty cool, and what was the prize?  A free game!  Yes, last year we won three free games, and we had up to a year to redeem the free tickets.  That's why we returned here this morning for a really fun time playing mini-golf!

By the way, Mom beat both Maddie and I pretty handily, getting three solid holes-in-one, plus about a few more near misses.  She was on fire today!

Of course, today was the last day of our stay at the Inn at Christmas Place - for now.  We had our really big breakfast buffet with all the good food, and there was Santa there again for pictures and greeting.  We got in our Santa picture for the year again, and that was a nice little bonus to the day!

And of course there were other photo ops outside that we did again, which are always fun!

Ah, another nice meal outside here.  Just watch out for the static electricity!  These chairs are high up and plastic, so there's no grounding here.  So yeah, you can build up a good static charge to zap your grounded neighbor if they are standing nearby... ZAP!

Outside of the zapping, this meal is super pleasant in the mornings, and this was just a good way to say goodbye to the Inn for now.

The ride home was nice and easy.  You can see the rubber chicken has been with us again, a hilarious response to the "no honking your horns" sign that is in front of the Pigeon Forge tunnel.  Maddie rolls down the window and honks this rubber chicken over and over again the entire length of the tunnels in Tennessee.  Awesome!

Here's Joey at one of our stops on the way home.  Somewhere south of Clayton, we stop at the Blue Ridge Honey Company to pick up a few things like jams, honeys, and a honey sweetened cream soda that Maddie likes.  

But we got home in time to get ready... and go out again.  Yes, Maddie was at taekwondo tonight, and that went a lot later than usual, just because Maddie was hanging out with students.  When we got home, Mom was ready for a movie - and in honor of our recent trip to Dollywood, we rented "9 to 5."  Maddie liked that one - I hadn't seen it in decades, but there were certain lines that I really remember for some reason.

After that, we did our reading from "Maskerade," and a likely culprit has been finally discovered.  We'll see how things go from this point on, but things are winding down with this story now, which we're both enjoying.  Afterwards we said our prayers, and everyone got tucked in for a good night's rest.  

Wow, what a full day!  It was fun though!