October 2 &3rd, 2007

Tuesday We have arrived in Tennessee, our campground is a nice one close to everything we want to see in the town. It took us awhile to get here and after we were settled in, Kent did the laundry while Sharon cleaned house and wrote on the blog. We had a lovely dinner at home and we planned out our day for tomorrow.
Wednesday we went to "Dollywood" about 11 AM, we spent the day going to 4 shows. They had a recreation of Dolly's home where she was raised. It had newspaper pages for wallpaper and all the furnishings and plates that came from her home. At the end of the day, we went to Dolly's Museum which was also in Dollywood. I think we enjoyed it the most of all. They had a large room they called "Dolly's Attic", it was just like an attic with all kinds of old things in it. Including old clothes, suit cases, dishes, pictures and junk. There was a mannequin in the attic for fitting clothes to fit Dolly. We measured it and her waist was 23 and 1/2 inches, and the bust 38. From there we went into the rest of the museum which was a beautiful two level museum with a wide open spiral staircase. There you could see both levels of the exhibits. They had small cubicles like small rooms where they had displays of memorabilia with music playing that was appropriate for the things in that display. All of the clothes she wore in movies and on album covers were in glass cases and the songs she wrote on the original paper were laying around the feet of the mannequins. The little "coat of many colors" her mom made for her is there and it is so cute and it looks like it was well worn. There are televisions all over playing the programs we all watched her do many years ago. Her trophies are in cases and her gold albums are all hung on the wall in another room. There are so many rooms to go through that I lost Kent when it was time to leave and I had to call him on my cell phone to find him. We always carry our cell phones t call the other one if we get separated.