Post-Vacation Part Three

Continuing from yesterday...

On Saturday morning, Cara and I awoke and headed back to Pigeon Forge to visit the Old Mill for breakfast. Taking Mike & Josh's recommendations, we thought that this would be a place not to miss and so, sadly we gave up breakfast at Buckhorn for the Old Mill,

and I wasn't disappointed.

The really cool thing about the Old Mill Restaurant is not it's decor or design. It's not the fact that it has an uberly amazing gift shop. It's not the friendly service, or the view, or even the massive portions of food. It's the fact that the Old Mill is simple.

Simple is awesome in this day and age, and there's nothing simpler than breakfast at the Old Mill. You have your choice of Pancakes, Bacon, Eggs, French Toast, or a combination of those, and with your breakfast, you get:

• A glass of freshly squeezed orange juice
• Freshly baked Buttermilk Biscuits
• Southern Style Cornmeal Grits
• and A Cup of Homemade Sausage Gravy

It was such a big breakfast that I couldn't finish it. If you are in Pigeon Forge, you have to eat at this restaurant. It's that good.

Since we spent the majority of our day in Gatlinburg on Friday, we decided to hang out in Pigeon Forge on Saturday and attend a show on the main strip. So, we selected carefully after rifling through what seemed like a hundered brochures and settled on Magic: Beyond Belief and I am so glad we did.

We enjoyed a two-hour spectacular of illusionary artistry. The magician, Terry Evanswood performed over thirty illusions for us to glimpse and even showed us how to do one with a rope. He employs the use of four stage hands and different animals such as cerval cats, a goose and a massive 540 pound White Bengal Tiger. We had third rows seats and they were absolutely amazing. I recommend this show to anyone who has a free afternoon while visiting. it is well worth the price of the ticket.

After the show, I took Cara to her favorite restaurant, Olive Garden for an extravagant dinner on our last night and the meal was excellent as always. We headed back to the Inn and began to pack for our trip back home, but the trip wasn't over yet because we had more to do on Sunday and I'll post about that tomorrow.