Holiday Tour

Last week-end, the five of us spent the week-end in Pigeon Forge and we had a great time together. On Friday, we went to Dollywood and then on Saturday we met up with Popeye and Mammy and Nannie Ray for a picnic lunch. But before I get into that, since I didn't get a Friday Family Funny posted yesterday, I will start with that.

We left for Pigeon Forge after Samuel got out of school and headed up I- 40. We got to about the TN line and traffic STOPPED. We found out that there was construction up the road, but we did not know how far up. If you have ever traveled that way, you know that on that stretch of road there are no exits. About 10 minutes into the traffic, Faith starting saying she need to go to the bathroom and then about every ten minutes she was reminding us that she needed to use the bathroom. After about 40 minutes she was crying that she need to go the bathroom. There was a Holiday Tour bus that was traveling along the road with us. Faith was now crying hard...

So, I called the number on the back of the bus and asked the sweet little teenage girl who answered the phone the situation and asked if we went up to the bus, was the driver allowed to open to door for me and a four year old that was about the pee all over herself. There was a long silence on the other end of the phone and then she said...please hold. As someone came back to the line, I could hear tons of laughing on the other end. I again explained to the situation to the lady on the other end and she told me that Mr. Blanton was driving the bus headed to Gatlinburg and he would be happy to open the door for a little girl. She did tell me this was the first time she had ever had this question, but was happy to be able to help us.

In the end, we did not have to ask Mr. Blanton to open the door traffic starting moving and we stopped at the first exit we found, which did not have anywhere to use the bathroom - but we made it work.

Pictures from the week-end coming...