Originally Posted by Pk_StyLeZ
Ya know I was asking myself that very same question. As I posted on another thread, Sevierville Tn was the strangest place I have ever been. It is a tourist trap. That area which includes Gatlinburg, and Pigeon Forge is full of a bunch of dinner theaters where you can catch all of these different variety shows. However, the shows were all of the "Hee Haw" variety. Dolly Parton I believe is from Pigeon Forge and she has built herself a Hillbilly amusement park called Dollywood. It was somewhat like a country Las Vegas without the hot women and gambling. It was however, quite beautiful being in the Smokey Mountains and we were real close to the main entrance to the Smokey Mountain National Park. I wanted to take the monks hiking up into the forest but time and circumstances didn't permit. They had lost time to catch up on with each other. We did take them to eat "American Food" which was amusing because they did not know how to use the utensils. I tried to show them but my master stopped me, he thought it was funny too and he told me not to, to let them figure it out for themselves. I spent the whole time wondering and hoping that they didn't think the rest of the U.S. was like that. I was reassured by Shi Yan Feng that alot of them had already been on other tours to the U.S. and other countries.
I felt sorry for them that they were stuck in a rut. They were not getting out to see/do anything, only going back and forth from the house they were staying at to the theater, and to eat at a chinese restraunt. The promotor of the tour was asking us lots of questions about Houston and if we thought the performance would do well if they toured it around the U.S. He also wanted to know if there were other places in the U.S. like that...maybe Branson, Mo. My response to him was to tour it in the bigger cities. He seemed to want to go to a place and perform the play for a month or so before moving on to another. I am not quite sure why he wanted to do that, I would think that after about two weeks the show would be played out. They are going back to China in November and they may come back next year and tour the show. I hope they do, I never get tired of watching the incredible martial arts that they perform.
I don't think that they were making too much money there. The tourists we saw seemed to be older people and they weren't even close to filling the theater.
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