We ate lunch at Ponderosa Steakhouse in Lawrenceburg.
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New York Strip, baked potato, and Texas Toast |
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Ponderosa Steakhouse |
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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 has eight acres of displays with the life-size Native scene, live animals, and ninety drive-thru arches decorated with Christmas Lights.
With Conway Twitty and Twitty Bird singing Happy the Christmas Clown,
Ding-A-Ling, Christmas is for Kids, We wish you a Merry Christmas, Silver Bells, Frosty the Snow Man, Rudolph Red Nose 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 Frosty Snowman.
The cost was $15.00 per car
It was very enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZuFa0YVso
We rode through Chad's Winter Wonderland at 6PM 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.
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Dancing Lights at Jelly Stone Park |
We paid $25.00, slid the top back on our van, climbed up 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 Rockn' Christmas tunes. The park also offers special rides on its firetruck but reservations for the Fire Truck must be made in advance.
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Dancing Lights |
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We stopped at Fox 17's Santa's Village where there was a Santa Clause, family activities, a spider hum, inflatables, and a petting zoo. |
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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 to look at the aquariums at the Aquarium Restaurant, and at Lego Land Store to look at all the displays.
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Lego Land |
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A Visit with Santa |
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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.
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Fire Place at Bass Pro Shops |
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Bear at Bass Pro Shops |
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Christmas Tree at Bass Pro Shops |
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Santa's Village and reindeer |
We exited the mall it was still a light rain as we headed to the van.
Traffic was light and the ride home was enjoyable.
At home, there had been severe storms and some tornados. We had missed all the bad weather just a little rain as we travel home.