Pigeon Ford - July 4, 2019

Yesterday turned out to be another wonderful and interesting day.  It is really nice to be in one place for awhile.  Cari fix scrambled eggs and bacon which tasted great......nothing like it in the great outdoors....even if you are in a town.

They then took me to Gatlinburg and we went to the Ripley's Aquarium which was really fantastic. These are some of the pictures I took and you can tell it is really a fabulous place.

They really did a great job with all of it....and very educational as well.  Then we continued to walk around the town and it was really neat too.  It is styled after old European style and Judi would have really loved it too.....missed her....but at least didn't have to wait for her to shop all the many shops that she would have loved.  I did manage to buy a few things myself.  I guess what was so marvelous for me was that I was able to walk it fairly well....no real pain. 

We drove back to the campground and the Hannons wanted to go to the Go-cart track....Conner wanted to ride, so both Conner and Tom rode.  I decided to take a little tour around the town.  Rode the main strip through town and they have a very large sidewalk which made it easy for me and met them there.

   Met up with the Hannons at the grocery store and decided to continue on my tour.  Saw a lot of stuff and went down some side streets.  Came to another corner where the handicap curb access was raised up a couple of inches off the road.  I knew it was going to cause me a problem, but I rode on and ended up once again on my back with my legs straight up in the air......only this time I didn't fall over one way or the other...my head was protected by the headrest.  Made an OK sign since there was a line of traffic next to me.  Still people came over since they could see that an old man had gotten himself in a situation.  My problem was that I was having a hard time getting my seat belt off so I could roll over and get up.  Finally got it off and asked a caring guy who came to help to hold the bike so it wouldn't fall on me when I rolled over.  He did and someone else helped me up and got the bike up.  I just had a few scraps from getting up....not the incident.  They got me on my was again and I thanked them again as I passed them since they were still waiting in traffic.  God is still so, so, so very good.  Made it back to the campground and saw there was a little more damage to the scooter....oh well...

The Hannons were in the river a lot as it is still quire warm  This is a picture of Conner floating down the river.

Tom cooked hamburgs...delicious...for supper.  Came back to the camper and pretty well collapsed, after such a wonderful day, for the rest of the evening and just watched a movie.  Modern electronics is wonderful.

Happy 4th of July.....thank you patriots.......BTW....bought a Trump hat yesterday.....had a feeling I was in Trump land.