Tuesday 19 April 2011

Getting Emotional

Last weekend was genuinely one of the greatest I have had in my life. Me and my friends travelled to an amusement park called Dollywood in Tennessee and stayed there for three days. We were 18 people, from the Wise NASA people to students from the college, staying in three rooms at a hotel in Pigeon Fort. With the exception of Friday, the weather was exceptional and we enjoyed bright sunshine and warm temperatures with all our hearts.

Driving out of Gatlinburg and watching the setting sun, thinking about leaving all these wonderful people behind in a couple of weeks time really brought a tear to my eye. It is just best to think that with this globe of ours getting smaller all the while, it will be likely to meet a lot of these people again under different skies.

Here are some pictures, hopefully they convey the thousand words I cannot find on my keyboard.
Compare with the snowy shot of the campus in the first posts

Tasty cake!

From Dollywood. They had mad hatters.

Some of the rides were pretty amazing. 

Apparently Dollywood had a festival of nations when we went there, appropriate!

Some of the guys showing where they're from. 


Never smile in a picture with a flag in it.

After a long day at Dollywood, we retired to the hotel.

Streetview from Gatlinburg, TN. I dig the vehicle.

We also took a chairlift ride in Gatlinburg.