Silver Dollar City

The day before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving day we took the kids, Adrik, Emily and Evan to Silver Dollar City. This is a old west themed amusement park with rides, craftsman demonstrations and other theatrical presentations. Adrik the oldest could not ride the roller coaster enough. He got Marilyn on the Thunderation ride three times. Marilyn was also hiodwinked onto the flying swings. Which gave her a stomach churning ride. The park was decked out for Christmas. They had a tree lighting after dark and Evan the youngest one was completely captivated by the brilliant and flashing tree. There is even a small gauge live steam train ride which we all cramed onto for a ride around the park. There is something about this park it's been around for a good number of years and a lot of the rides and stuff has remained thru the years. I was talking to a guy that was about 50ish about the great weather we were having and he was saying that he could not wait till noon when Silver Dollar City opened. ... He said sort of wistfully ...