Activities in Pigeon Forge TN

We found lots of fun things to do in Tennessee!

Buc-ees!  The kids found souvenirs, I got a puppet for my classroom and we ate some delicious food.  Don't miss out on their homemade desserts.  The banana pudding is SO GOOD.

We tried something new this trip.  We had a Publix nearby and since we don't have them in the Midwest, we decided to shop the grocery store for lunches inead of going out to eat.  They had tons of good food options.  We tried salads, new fruit, some frozen meals and snacks.  It ended up being cheaper than going out to eat.  We all enjoyed shopping the store and eating exactly what we wanted to do for lunches.

If Leo saw a character, he insisted on getting his picture taken one.  Too bad he felt the opposite about family pictures.  He hate that.

Kevin got us tickets to the Paula Deen lumberjack dinner show!  We enjoyed the actual lumberjack show, but the whole experience was odd.  Our tickets were for 5pm.  We arrived at 4:45pm where they told us we had ten minutes left to grab some dinner before the show.  It wasn't clear that we were supposed to arrive an hour before our ticket time to eat dinner.  We scrambled to get dinner from the buffet.  None of the employees seem to know the right answers and were kind of rude.  We walked all over the place with plates full of food and drinks trying to find the entrance.  So it was hard to eat dinner in a stadium setting.  Leo basically didn't eat.  I wish we could have just purchased tickets for the show and skipped the dinner.  The Paula Deen name on the meal made us think we were going to be eating extra delicious food, but it was not so great.

The show was entertaining and fun.  We wouldn't go back, but we did enjoy it once.  Just beware that you need arrive an hour before your ticket time if you want to eat dinner before the show.

The outlet mall is HUGE.  It has every store you could ever want and you could spend the day there with the restaurants and shopping options.  The boys did not want to do that so we shopped fast.

Lots of distilleries to sample and eat at.  Kevin loved it!

Another character and the exact photo he asked me to take.  Mellow Mushroom is so good!  I was thankful to land here for dinner after a bummer of a dinner the night before.

We tried a new restaurant - Muchacho Alegre!  It was yummy!  We loved the quesadillas, guac, chips and salsa, chicken dishes and Kevin got the Molcajete.  It was a HUGE lava rock bowl filled with 5 meats, veggies and sides.  It was amazing, but it could have easily fed our whole family.  Be sure to share that one.

Thanks for a great trip, Tennessee!