Another year of season passes comes to an end! We try to only get passes to Silver Dollar City every other year, keeps the excitement alive! It's been another great year, with lots of pictures, good times and great memories! In fact, some of my fondest childhood memories are from Silver Dollar City, as I child we went all the time, only because we got in free. My parents worked there as woodworkers, we traveled around doing craft shows to promote Silver Dollar City. I loved going to those shows, sitting in malls all day for several days. Then we'd go play at Silver Dollar City whenever we wanted to. Back then we were allowed to run all over the city by ourselves, riding rides, going to shows, goofing around. Now days I wouldn't dream of it, its much bigger now, but some things never change. Hopefully my kids will remember all the years they got to come to Silver Dollar City and have the same memories I did!
A favorite ride is the Great American Shootout, I used to be terrified of the buzz saw when I was younger, now its a nice laid back, kid friendly ride where you simply shoot targets with your electric gun. The kids love it, and its fun because the entire family can ride, especially Garrett!
Every time we visit we have to stop at the ball drop, the kids love chasing the balls around, sucking them up with giant vacuum hoses and waiting for them to all fall back down on their heads again. I think this year it was especially a favorite of Garrett's, one of the few things he can play all by himself. Since he isn't able to ride the rides with Ashlyn and Preston, he doesn't even know what he's missing. The ball drop is as good as it gets as far as he is concerned!
One trip this past summer we got Grandpa and Grandma Walker to come along, only if we rented them "a ride" to eliminate all the walking. They love the city, but just can't walk around it like they use to! So we rented both of them a motorized cart, we didn't think either one would ride if the other one didn't! You can see Garrett is loving it just as much as they did! They had the best time driving those things around all day, they could keep up with the rest of us and enjoy everything as much as everyone else without even breaking a sweat!
Another one of our regular rides is the train, the boys love the train, and once again everyone can ride it! There is one thing you can always count on, the notorious brothers who rob the train every day, every year, since I was a little girl riding that same train. I tell you they haven't even changed the script since they were robbing my train so many years ago.
This is the year, the year Preston is finally old enough to ride the big kids rides. Up to this point he's been limited to the train, shoot out and the carousel! Not any more, he finally reached the magical height of 36 inches and can ride the kids coaster (pic, above) the swings, and Fire in the Hole! You can see Preston and Mommy towards the back of the roller coaster, Aunt Colton and Kayley in front of us, and Uncle Nick with Cora behind us! We're all holding on for dear life because although this may be the smallest coaster at Silver Dollar City, it is the roughest!
Ashlyn's favorite ride, ever since she was 36 inches has been the swings! She always loves to swing, but these are the big ones that take you high in the sky and swing you around in circles. Unfortunately she is only tall enough to ride with an adult, so now that Preston is on board too, Mommy has to endure the spinning around so that they can both ride! A Mother's love I tell you, one of these days I'm going to puke on this thing. That's why there are no pictures, Kendall and I are both always on the ride!
The years we get to spend at the city are always a great way to getaway for the weekend. Grandma Bell's house is so close we always have a place to stay and better yet she always comes to sit with kids while Mommy and Daddy ride their rides! The city changes every time you come to visit as they have different festivals throughout the year like Bluegrass and BBQ, World Fest, Kids Fest (the only festival we've never made it to, go figure), Harvest Fest and always Christmas! Now we'll take a year off, give them time to add new rides, and let the anticipation build for 2013 when we get season passes again:)
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