Busy, fun day!

This morning we went to the resort's welcome breakfast, sat at tables by the pool for it.  At the end of the informational time, they drew for door prizes, and I won this huge beach towel.  It's taller than I am - I stood on the cooler for the picture.  Megs, since you were always our "pink girl", guess you'll get to use it when you come to Ontario this summer!  We then went to the activities room to book our shows for the week, and the lady gave us a free ticket to Alabama Theater (worth $38), one of the shows we wanted to see anyway.  We got her to book Pirates Voyage and Carolina Opry as well.   This afternoon we went to one of the outlet malls - that's alwasy fun (for ME anyway!)

From the mall we went to the Pirates Voyage.  It's a dinner show in the place that Dolly Parton used to have her horse show, Dixie Stampede.  It's basically the same idea, but instead of the horse arena in the middle of the building, it's pirate ships in a lake - quite deep, judging by the way they were diving into the water from high up.  We decided that it was fun, but not something we would probably go to every year like we did the horse show. 

There were sea lions involved in the show, but since we were not supposed to take pictures in the show, I took a couple outside when we saw them swimming around in their pool before the show.

I thought these were kind of cool - I've never seen them before - guess it might be some kind of holly bush.

Dixie Stampede has undergone a lot of changes, inside and outside.

Three "pirates" did a pre-show.  It was a little "ho-hum", but ok.

There was the back half of a pirate ship at each end of the big arena/lake.  One side was rooting for the "Crimson Pirate Captain"  and the other side was rooting for the "Indigo Pirate Captain".  Of course you do your cheering while you eat your meal with your fingers.  We brought home a LARGE doggie bag of food after - they give you WAY too much food.

All in all, it was a great day, and tomorrow we go to the other outlet mall, and then to the Alabama Theater.  Looking forward to that as well.