There’s lots of tips I can think of for vacationing with small children, but this is the one that has helped us the most.

Try to stay on their normal schedule.

If you try to get them to bed, get them up, and feed them at their normal times it helps things go better.  It gives them a point of reference and normalcy when everything around them is different. [Read more...]

After driving past this several times we decided to go in to Wonderworks in Pigeon Forge.  It was a bit pricey, but fun.

My munchkins were fascinated by it – that means there were a million and one questions – until we decided to walk through that archway.  The creaking and groaning sound effects in the archway completely unnerved our 2 year old.

There are all kinds of electronic attractions inside.  Here we were attempting to land a space shuttle.  Good thing it wasn’t a real flight.

This one tested how fast we were able to get the race car across the start line.

My husband said, “The bed of nails didn’t hurt.”  So I tried it.  I’ll never do it again.  It was ouchie.

After all the electronic stuff there was a wacky museum with optical illusions similar to the ones I showed you before and much better.  I loved the shadow pictures because it looked like a jumble of wires until you switch the light on.

So there you have a brief tour of where we spend a whole morning during our last vacation in Pigeon Forge.  That evening we went to the aquarium and saw God’s creations instead of man’s.

Wonderworks really caught our attention whenever we drove by it. Our kids christened it “The Upside Down House.”