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Old 02-04-2008, 07:31 AM   #1 (permalink)
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suggestions please

I'm coming back to Tennessee for a family visit, it's been 6 years, and what's fun to to in middle/east Tenn between the 21st-24th of March? I'll have kids with me from ages 8-15...any suggestions?
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Old 02-04-2008, 08:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Are you talking Nashville area or more over toward Knoxville?
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Old 02-04-2008, 08:49 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Knoxville, my initial thought is Gatlinburg, Dollywood, etc.
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Old 02-04-2008, 08:53 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Kids would probably love that. Personally I'd rather take a bullet to the head. The traffic over there is absolutely incredible.
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Chatanooga has the Aquarium and other fun stops for the kids.
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Thx jr, might do that.
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Old 02-04-2008, 05:29 PM   #7 (permalink)
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if you go to gatlinburg, be sure to get an air-brushed shirt. and a license plate. and a hat...and be sure to not feed the three live bears...
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Chatanooga has the Aquarium and other fun stops for the kids.
That is a nice aquarium, my kids have been there a few times visiting my folks.
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Old 02-04-2008, 06:09 PM   #9 (permalink)
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If you go to Gatlinburg you have to ride the chai lift/ski lift whatever you call it, and see the decades of chewing gum people have stuck over the years. Plus pay a ridiculous amount for a picture.


Dollywood will be fun for your kids, not sure if they will have the water rides open by then.
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Chattanooga Aquarium is fun...go up to Lookout Mountain.

Get the kids to Cades Cove or one of the hiking trails in the Smokies and let them play in a creek.

If you do want to go to Pigeon Forge, there are secret back ways known only to the Vol Nation that you can use to avoid most of the traffic.
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Chatanooga has the Aquarium and other fun stops for the kids.
I agree. The aquarium is good for kids and adults.
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Old 02-04-2008, 06:53 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Isn't there also a very good children's museum/science museum in Chatanooga? Or...am I making that up.
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Isn't there also a very good children's museum/science museum in Chatanooga? Or...am I making that up.
They used to have a really cool one in Oak Ridge?
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They used to have a really cool one in Oak Ridge?
My mother recently took my daughter there; she enjoyed it, but I'm not sure anyone on vacation would want to go there (Oak Ridge).
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