Hello everyone, I hope everyone had a great 4th. Amanda, myself, and little man all had a great time on the 4th. We had a cookout with my side of the family over at my dad and moms house as well as shot off some fireworks. The little guy loved the firework show. There were probably close to 30 people in attendance all family members, but not all of my family. That was probably just a 1/3 to ½ of my family on my moms side. My dads sister and her husband (my aunt and uncle) were able to come too. My cousins wife on my dads side also was able to come, but he had to work night shift patrol so he was unable to attend due to needing sleep. My cousins from the Philippines came in on Saturday. Her husband was in for a little while, but had to return to work so he is back in the Philippines. Saturday we went up to a place called the Island in Pigeon Forge. For the most part it is a great place to just hang out for a little while. The island has shops, rides, and eating establishments as well as live music. A girl by the name of Emmy Sunshine was up there. She has some Youtube videos, from my understanding she is about Little Mans age which is 8, but she does a great job singing. They had some other live music as well in different areas of the Island. We went to one eating establishment and after we ordered our drinks we got up and left. From the time you walk in they are screaming at you. In order to hear each other you have to scream to talk, you get things thrown at you such as a wadded up napkin hit me in the side of the head. The establishment also makes you wear these hats while you eat that read for example It cost a lot of money to look this cheap and I blame my farts on my kids.We had a lot expensive equipment there at the table and the server she was threatening to drench the entire table with water. I told her I hoped she had a lot of money to replace the phones she was going to damage and she quit talking about throwing water on the table. It was definitely not a family eating establishment. Basically if you want to go there you want to go and drink without socializing. So, after talking to the manager we got up and left. We went next door to a restaurant that had an Outback or nicer atmosphere. The worst place in the world to eat is Dicks Last Resort, as I told my family members it is definitely a last resort kind of place. We loved the Timberland though they had great food and a great atmosphere. While up there we ran into one of the University of Tennessees Linebackers and he posed for a picture with my 82 year old grandmother. My grandmother and a hand full of other family members rode a Ferris Wheel that went 200 feet in the air at the very top. I tried to put all this into a recording this morning and I tried to record yesterday using my phones Drop Vox application, but for some reason or antoehr it is not working. It will post the recording, but as soon as I press enter on the file, the way that I play all of my other files from this application, it immediately gives me the play button again. So, it is creating a file, but no voice transmission is happening.