Saturday, September 20, 2008

Silver Dollar City

Silver Dollar City is a fun entertainment park similar to OpryLand in Nashville. There are arts and crafts, rides, shops, and lots and lots of shows. All who work there wear 18th century clothes.

We went there with Mark, Sherry, Myron and Bill (all friends we met in Colorado). Mark and Sherry work at Silver Dollar City. Mark works in the carving shop (see Mark and Sherry with Mark's canes) and sells the canes he collected in the Colorado mountains and carved in Fun Valley. Sherry works in the children's area, making sure no one gets hurt (see Sherry in her costume).

As we walked thru the park, we enjoyed seeing all the arts and crafts shops. See Delton and Mark watching the craftmen working in the saddle shop. Also see Joni and Delton in jail!

There are many shows going on throughout the day. One of the most popular shows at Silver Dollar City is the ROY ROGERS SHOW (see Roy Rogers Jr. in the black shirt and pants) presented by Roy and Dale's son. You could see the resemblance to Roy. He told stories of Roy and Dale and Trigger and Buttercup and Nellybell and all the stars from the TV show. It was great!

We also went into a saloon and saw a cute musical skit, with bartenders, show girls dancing on the bar, and more.

Have you ever seen a Mule Jump??? A whole show was produced around mules jumping over sticks of different heights. The mules jumped from a standing position and did a pretty good job. I guess the interesting part of the show is that mules are supposed to be so stubborn and one never knows if the mule will jump or not. What do you think????

On the way out of the park, Delton was stopped by a very pretty girl (?) who was fasinated by him and couldn't resist putting her arms around him. Delton abliged him. What a cute picture.