🎄🎄🎄🎄2016 Nov 29, Tuesday, Chad's Wonderland, Jelly Stone Dancing Lights and Opry Mills "Christmas"

We ate lunch at Ponderosa Steakhouse in Lawrenceburg.

New York Strip, baked potato, and Texas Toast 

Ponderosa Steakhouse 

Chad's Winter Wonderland

 Chad's Winter Wonderland is located between Lebanon and Mt. Juliet, just north of the Hwy 70 and Hwy 109 intersections.
It features eight acres of displays, including life-size Native American scenes, live animals, and ninety drive-thru arches decorated with Christmas Lights.
With Conway Twitty and Twitty Bird singing Happy Christmas Clown,
  Ding-A-Ling, Christmas is for Kids, We wish you a Merry Christmas, Silver Bells, Frosty the Snow Man, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and many other Christmas Songs.

We saw Frosty, Reindeer, Christmas trees, Christmas Train, carolers, Christmas Stockings, toy soldiers, angels, a manger scene with live animals, a helicopter,  airplanes, and Santa's Train.
We talked to Santa at Santa's Workshop. We saw a live-dancing Frostythe  Snowman.
The cost was $15.00 per car
It was delightful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZuFa0YVso

We rode through Chad's Winter Wonderland at 6 P.M., which took about 15 minutes.
We were about thirty minutes from Nashville, so we decided to visit The Dancing Lights of Christmas at Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park.

We paid $25.00, slid the top back on our van, climbed up, and stuck my head through the hole with my cell phone in hand. I began taking videos as we rode through hundreds of thousands of LED Christmas lights, dancing to Rockin' Christmas tunes. The park also offers special rides on its fire truck, but reservations must be made in advance.

Dancing Lights

We stopped at Fox 17's Santa's Village, where there was a Santa Claus, family activities, a spider hum, inflatables, and a petting zoo. 

There were fires for roasting Marshmallows and a big-screen TV showing a Christmas
movie

 It was beginning to sprinkle as we left Jellystone Park.
We rode to Opry Mills and stopped at the Aquarium Restaurant to see the aquarium, as well as the Lego Land Store to view all the displays.

Lego Land 

A Visit with Santa 

Christmas Trees at Opry Mall

We ate supper at Panda Express in the food court.
It rained hard while we were inside the mall.

We went inside Bass Pro Shops to view their Christmas displays and Santa Village.

Fireplace at Bass Pro Shops

Bear at Bass Pro Shops

Christmas Tree at Bass Pro Shops

Santa's Village and Reindeer 

We exited the mall, and it was still raining as we headed to the van.
Traffic was light, and the ride home was enjoyable.
At home, there had been severe storms and some tornadoes. We had missed all the bad weather, just a little rain, as we traveled home.