Are you wondering why the title to our blog has the score for a football game? And one that we have no vested interest in at that? Might be because we were in the thick of all the fans today as we took a trip to the World's Fair Park in downtown Knoxville! We had a clue that a game was being played on Friday as we were driving into Knoxville! Lots of cars with flags, pom poms in their back window and even a few that had pom poms secured to the outside of the car! Orange prevailed everywhere you looked! Even the service guys in the Buddy Gregg facility! :-)In doing a quick search on the internet, I saw that there was a "Sunsphere" in the World's Fair Park downtown. It had recently opened thier 4th floor observatory to the public so we decided to venture down there. Hadn't gone too far when the traffic slowed on the highway and a sign alongside was flashing "Urgent Message tune to am 1620". Quickly tuned in
and found that they were advising traffic to avoid the downtown area. Not good for tourists who didn't have an area map, no GPS and only vague directions on how to get where they were going! :-) Since we are California natives, we decided that we wouldn't let the traffic detour us...and it didn't! Glad that we didn't try to go around or make the decision not to go see it! Traffic was nothing!! Oh yeah, it slowed a little, but nothing to write home about! It wasn't long before "game" traffic went one way and we went another! Actually, they should have followed us! We got off following downtown signs, and quickly realized that we were amongst a lot of game traffic and game 
parking! We found a parking area near the Park and told a very nice attendant that we only wanted to see the Sphere. He let us park right there and off we went! The park is really beautiful and had lots of water features! There was a fountain that the kids loved playing in and would have been great to cool off in - and I would have IF I had dry clothes and a towel! Found the Sphere and the elevator that would take us up to the 4th floor! There was also a big football bash going on up on the 6th floor...you could even hear the music on the 4th floor! There were some great views of the city from up there and a sea of orange all around! From our view we saw a parking lot with lots of canopies set up so we decided to walk and see what it was! What is was, was a lot of 
tailgate parties for both sides! Lots of orange AND red around! On every corner you could find people looking for tickets and selling tickets as well! The good thing about it...we were going in the opposite direction! Enjoyed walking around the World's Fair park, seeing the view from the sphere and seeing all the Vols and Bulldog fans!
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No one minding the store....You guys be sure to get those extra RV pads done up right. We are on our way.
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