RAIN, RAIN,GO AWAY!

Drove all the way to the TN border yesterday, as we drove into VA the weather cleared, but not for long, showers continued off and on untill we reached Lexington,
VA. where we pulled into a passport america campground and will spend 2 nights as we
tour some civil war "stuff"..... It rained most of the night so the area is a mud hole and Mitch and I get in trouble tracking it in, but there is no way around it!
Kids are gonna have a heck of a time looking for easter eggs in the mud!!!











on the water front in knoxville, tn

THURSDAY

i will try to send a picture today but i haven't been very successful..(i think it is the speed of the wi-fi)...and it is a beautiful day...the sun is out no clouds and we are in shorts amen...the mountain top still has some snow in them but not down here on the low land...last night we went to the dixie stampede...over rated we would say but now we can also say done that.....tomorrow on our way to virginia and working our way to meet up with a couple of couples...one lives in lousia, va where we all will spend a night...then tom/christine and us'n will go on the washington for a few days....chances are we will NOT have wi-fi till we get home after tomorrow morning so don't worry if you are reading this and there is nothing new on it for a week or so.....

SNOW

can you believe that when we left in january we had a beautiful day of driving NO snow and the roads were dry..not the case this morning it was snowing and we drove thru some heavy snow on our way to pigeon forge, tn..not a long drive a wee bit over an hr...the sun has been on and off all day but there is SNOW on the mountains tops....we are staying at the same campground we did a couple of yrs ago when we were here and we think it might even be the same site...we need to decide what show we want to go too..tomorrow we will go the the national park (need to get a stamp)..not too much of a day except the weather..but there is warmer temps in the forecast...

FORECAST

can you believe that SNOW is in the forecast...the news this morning said maybe 4-6in..not sure if that is where we are or in the mountains--we left home in between snow storm and it looks like we are approaching home with the same kinda of forecast ugh... but the weather man also said to expect a good weekend...that's what we are waiting for...met doug/iris for dinner yesterday had a good 2 hr dinner at a cracker barrel...today we just had a kinda laid back day...it was rainy out so we decided not to go to the pioneer museum that is mostly outside save that for another time here....our hot water heater thermostat has blown again so we found a camping world to go buy a new one..then a stop at wal-mart and across the street was a sam's ..so lar took me out to lunch for his favorite hot dog and drink for 1.70...but it cost him more than that cause i always can find things to buy....tomorrow the plan is to move on the pigeon forge unless there is toooooo much snow on the ground that we decide to hang out here another day....

AFTERNOON

ok here's what we did today..first lar took me out to breakfast and we found a IHOP...glad we got there when we did as in a matter of minutes it had a line...then we went to down town knoxville of course the first visit was to a visitors info got alot of good ideas and there seems to be alot to do and see around...so off to an old fashioned store which in a way reminded us of a cross between the watkins glen famous brand store and the old forge hardware store....after which we took a good walk around the city which was kinda quiet this morning...it has c commons like ithaca and at 1 there was to be a concert that was to last till way in the night..several different groups..so we went to the women's basket ball hall of fame...most interesting and enjoyable....now it is time to watch michigan and conn men's b/ball game....go michigan.....

SATURDAY

we are now in knoxville trying to find the fort so we can get enough money for gas ahahhaahha...or get the gold......we have had some very heavy rain the other night while watching tv it kept scrolling across the screen tornado watch and the counties that were affected and of course we were in one of them...sure is strange to see that warning...i think i'd rather prepare for a blizzard......not much to report as we having been doing much these last couple of days..did a wee bit of shopping then yesterday we packed up and moved to where we are now...we have seen the news about the horrible tragic happening in binghamton sure makes it worse when it is close to home...no matter where anything like this takes place it is still tragic....prayers go out to the families and victims...

ANOTHER RAINY DAY

so here we are enjoying another very rainy day...it is good for georgia as the lakes are really filling up but no so good for the tourist like us to get outside and do stuff...so what do we do but go shopping..nothing exciting to buy just out and about...then out to lunch which is always good....tomorrow the plan is still a go to move on to the knoxville area and maybe we will be able to get in fort knox and find a bunch of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ haha...don't we all wish...