46th Anniversary

The 23rd of December was our 46th wedding anniversary.  I can hardly believe we are old enough to have been married that long.  May it continue for lots more years so that we will look back and think that 46 is such a short time.  We thought of several things that we might do to celebrate our anniversary this year.  We finally decided to go to Silver Dollar City.  The weather looked pretty good online so we figured we would be safe to walk between the many shows and activities there were to do.  We were able to make our hotel and park reservations online, making it all pretty easy.  As we continued to check the weather during the week before going, we found the predicted temperature would drop a couple of degrees or so each day.  It changed from 36 degrees to 23 degrees with a substantial wind chill.  We still had fun even though we found ourselves looking for shops, etc. where we could stop for the heat to avoid freezing.  There was to be a light show at 5:30 and a light parade at 6:00.  We thought we would go to those and then go back to the hotel and enjoy the hot tub.  Every time we needed to stand in line outside for a show it started snowing.  The shows were good though, but by a little after 5:00 we decided the hot tub sounded a lot more inviting than the lights so we hopped on the shuttle that would take us to our part of the parking lot.  It's a good thing we made that decision too; the driver made the announcement that the parade had been cancelled due to the cold.  Boy, did that hot tub ever feel good.  Sorry, no pictures of us in our swim suits at the hot tub.

I can't put my arms down!!

 

This is the entrance to the park.

Santa was waiting for me near the entrance.

This guy was picked from the audience to be in a skit.  He was a really good sport.

I wish this showed how really beautiful the lights were on the trees, but you get the idea.

Did we have a blast?  Yes, we did!