Harvest Festival- Silver Dollar City

We spent Saturday at Silver Dollar City. It was the kickoff of their "Harvest Festival" and the park was decked out with fall decorations and pumpkins. Totally got me in the mood for Fall.

The weather was amazing. The high was 79 degrees and it may have reached that by the time we left, but it was so gorgeous the entire day.  We gad two buddy passes to use up before the expired so we invited Aaron, Steph and baby Blake to go with us. It was fun to spend some time with them!

I had to make sure we snagged some pictures in front of the entry with all the pumpkins.

Our first stop of the day was lunch. We ate at this awesome little place called "The Mine". It was actually underground and made to look like an old mine. It was buffet style and the kids devoured their lunches.
Then we went to "Geyser Gulch" and let the kids play in the ball area.

 

Then it was over to the water guns for some target practice. Tanner would push the button and Bailey would aim the gun. It was pretty hysterical to watch. Such good teamwork.

While the kiddos played in the balls and with the water guns, the dads (Chris and Aaron) went and rode some roller coasters. Steph and I stayed with the kids. After playing hard for a couple hours, the kids were ready for a snack. They must have worked up an appetite because they devoured their lunchables too.

After snack time, the dads came back and we took off together to ride some group rides. Our first stop was "The flooded mine". Unfortunately, Bailey didn't make it far before falling asleep in her Daddy's arms. So sweet!

The best part of this ride, besides the fact that its underground and cool during the summer, is the fact that everyone can ride it- even 10 month old Blake got to ride. Bailey slept through it all on her Daddy's lap.

Tanner loved it because you shoot at targets and everyone gets their own gun. He was one happy kid. Also, he scored higher than both Chris and I. Ridiculous!

The boy and I with our guns

After riding "The Flooded Mine" we went over to "Half Dollar Holler" and let the kids play. Tanner spent the entire time on rope tree house, while Bailey rode the carousel over and over again.

Then Chris and I took our kiddos and Blake to "The Grand Exposition" while Steph and Aaron went to ride a ride. Tanner and Chris rode the swings and then I took the older two kids on the caterpillar ride.

After that, we got "dippin dots" and decided to call it a day. Tanner was so tired he was actually asking to go home. You know they are tired when they ask to leave the awesome park to take a nap at home.

 

We had a great time and we couldn't have asked for better weather. We are looking forward to going back again soon and even more excited to kick off fall and enjoy more of this awesome fall weather!