Dollywood!!! May 2, 2008

As a student at an art school, I have embraced the unconventional.  This includes, but is no means limited to, the fact that our Senior Trip is taking us to Dollywood.  Six of us are piling into a big white van, and driving to Tennessee, to stay in a friend’s mom’s cabin (with two, count them TWO, hot tubs!) and seven bedrooms for six of us.  I couldn’t sleep last night for the anticipation.  

I know that must sound crazy, but Dollywood has always been a legend in my mind, a place I’ve always needed to see to convince myself of the reality.  This might sound bizarre, but it’s a bit of a dream come true that I finally get to visit (for free, luckily!).  It feels like a pilgrimage of sorts…which is kinda crazy, because I love Dolly Parton but her music isn’t exactly my jam.  I’m in it for the 9 to 5 Rhinestone Cowboy.  She won’t be there this weekend, but I will still enjoy the water ride.  

AND, to really make my day, we are stopping in Asheville for dinner.  I will spend the entire two hoursin the car trying to figure out what the best place to eat is, only to have TazerLaser complain that there aren’t enough meat and potatoes on the menu.  The man doesn’t eat a single green thing.  Not one.  Additionally, no bread, no cheese, and no sauces aside from ketchup or barbeque.  He lives on hamburger patties, no bun, and french fries or mashed potatoes.  Seriously.  It pisses me off that he’s skinny.  Where am I supposed to take him???  I want Jerusalem Garden, or Lucky Otter, or Sunny Pointe, or maybe even Doc Cheys.  He wants Wendys.  Oh, TL.  

And the weekend begins…  I can’t wait to see what kind of shenanigans I can catch on film for blackmail and entertainment purposes later.