Yeehaa!

We checked out of our hotel room and got back on the road, scouting around for a good place to get breakfast! We ended up at Cracker Barrel, a strange shop/restaurant that sells all sorts of things! The menu was packed with interesting(!?) dishes, so we settled for a roast beef sandwich (we thought we knew where we were with that) and some shrimp (king prawns) with hushpuppies?!.
The roast beef sandwich turned out to be boiled beef on toast covered in gravy. Yuk! Mum seemed to enjoy it. The shrimp were covered in batter and tasted of nothing, and the hushpuppies were potato wrapped in cornbread (or something like that). A crunchy but tasteless treat!
The raspberry lemonade was really good, we took some for the road.

Our day took us across Tennessee, to Pigeon Forge and Sevierville, Dolly Parton's hometown!
Now, Pigeon Forge is possibly the most horrific place I've ever visited! Tacky doesn't even come into it! Dollywood, The Titanic Experience, magic shows, sky diving simulators, excessive amounts of crazy gold...Pigeon Forge has the lot.
The perfect place for parents to take their hyperactive 10 year olds for an expensive holiday!
The place was so ridiculous that it became entertaining, which was lucky really as we were stuck in the holiday traffic for a good couple of hours.

The one redeeming factor of the Forge was a boot shop. Tucked in among the racecourses and comedy barn we spotted a sign:
BUY 1 PAIR GET 2 FREE!!!
Could it be true? We merely had to purchase one pair of boots and we'd get two free??
This we had to see!
We entered the store, taking note of all the Harley's parked alongside us. (A good sign we thought! We'd heard that bikers only buy the best!). What we saw on our arrival was a cowboy's dream! Row upon row of the most gorgeous cowboy boots you can imagine. Each embroidered with beautiful coloured threads. We spent an age trying on styles, toying with lengths and choosing colours, but we finally ended up with three pairs of boots between us! A bargain at $220 for all three, and ever so comfy! It was almost worth the trip!

We slowly made our way out of the Pigeon Trap and ventured to Asheville, a Rodeway Inn and Applebees for dinner!

Sleep!