Weekend in the Smokies

Rick and I spent a long weekend in the Gatlinburg Pigeon Forge area. Last May we purchased a vacation club and gave the names of our friends as referals. A couple of months ago Tylerann told me they were going to visit the Bluegreen Resort and asked if we would come with them. Oh yes! We had not had an opportunity to use out points yet so we scheduled too.

The Mountain Loft Resort in Gatlinburg was full so we settled for Laurel Crest in Pigeon Forge. It was a lovely place. We stayed in a studio room, sort of a glorified motel room. It's the smallest accommodation, using the least amount of points. For allowing Bluegreen to give us a personal owner update (try to sell us more points) we were given three $30 dinner gift certificates. Not a bad hours work. Except that it took two hours and they did indeed sell us more points. Tylerann and Donnie did not buy a vacation club but that's all right. We earned $50 just for them listening to the sales pitch and we had buddies all weekend. They can buy vacation nights from us in the future. We are going to need to sell some just to pay for this!

We spent Thursday night at the Comedy Barn and laughed our faces off! Three rules for the Comedy Barn: 1) No eye liner or mascara, 2) Plenty of Kleenex, 3) Do not volunteer to go on stage, it can not go well.

Friday we road through Cade's Cove and did a little walking. We didn't see any bears but we saw a gazillion deer.

Our friends