WonderWorks!

Yesterday we spent the afternoon running through WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge, what a place (and they give a great military discount)!

This is the story:  WonderWorks began as a top secret research laboratory on a remote island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.  As legend has it, the world's greatest scientists (led by Professor Wonder) were given the task of creating a man-made tornado and harnessing the power of it.  In their final attempt, a swirling vortex was created.  Something unpredictable happened and the experiment went awry.  The power was so great that the swirling vortex ripped the entire laboratory from its secure location and hurtled it skyward.  WonderWorks was thrown hundreds of miles away and landed upside down in the heart of Pigeon Forge. 

There are over 100 interactive, hands-on exhibits like this one, you use pulleys to pull yourself up.

It makes it a little harder when you get some "help"!  Stu is such a good helper!

 There was a rock wall, but this one was much easier than the last one Akashi did.  He practically ran up this one!

Of course we had to hit this one!

Akashi did great, his fastest pitch was 66 mph!

Everyone got their turn in the space suit.

Akashi did the Spacewalk Challenge, the "world's largest indoor ropes course".

This one is a little hard to see, but it's called the Wonderwall! It creates a 3-dimensional image of your body with over 40,000 pins!

This is Akashi...

 This is the Extreme 360 exhibit...  the faster you pedal the faster you go around!  Akashi was alone in the two seater for this ride.

 The like it so much he went for round two:  For this one Akashi has a passenger, a girl, and he's not too thrilled...

But the look on her face is priceless!