Our home in Knoxville, more trees, and Dollywood

We'll start this one by giving you a little more idea of our local surroundings. I had posted a site showing a generic room here at the Residence Hall on Andy Holt Drive, but Georgia took some pictures of our apartment showing the living room and the view out our windows. We are on the second floor, but remember that this ain't flat Illinois, so we actually have a door that opens on ground level from our apartment which makes moving stuff in and out a lot easier than navigating the hallways, stairs and elevators. Did I tell you about the fire drill we had the other nite??? I have also included the Aquatic Center across the street where the US Olympic diving team prepared for the games this summer, our parking garage and a couple of views of the vet school coming down across the bridge on my walk to "work". We did snap a picture of the Vols football stadium which is next door to the building where they play basketball, just down the street. You see names like Pat Summit, Bruce Pearl, and Peyton Manning (who has a drive named after him here). We weren't able to make it out Saturday, so I OD'd on college football, including witnessing embarassing losses by 2 of "my" 3 orange clad teams. Sunday, we headed southeast to the Smokeys and the triad of Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, and Gatlinburg, which at one time were places we just passed through on our way between Indiana and Georgia. Well, you don't just "pass thru" any more. We were there about 45 minutes after leaving our apartment, but once we left I-40, it was pretty much stop and go all the way. We never made it to Gatlinburg because we decided to stop at Dollywood. The scenery in and around that place was phenominal. We supposedly hit the last fall weekend in the Smokeys. AND, the first Christmas weekend at Dollywood (Christmas season started last Friday). Don't know much about the rest of the year, but although we thought the admission price was outlandish, the shows we got to see were worth the price to us... These people do up Christmas. Of course, Christmas is a big thing in our family, right guys???