re: If the travel baller in your life has a birthday coming up

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Have yall done the The Ripken Experience in Pigeon Forge?

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yes this past year

it was pretty awesome.

1) if you go, dont do cabin in the mountains, rent a house on the river in town

2) the food sucks there. every local restaurant sucked lol. the even places like paula dean sucked, literally best food i had was mello mushroom and im not a snob or anything, just like pretty good food. when you cant even get good basic things..the food sucks lol.

3) the baseball is awesome but fields are huge. all the fields were nice. all your games will not be at ripken park, you will have some a the wear park or something like that, its really nice too. umpires can be hit or miss and depending on when you go, half the field might be from LA. we went late july and only pelicans was there, but in june half the tournaments were LA teams that were already in select series. But i do suggest going earlier than we did. july is too late to still be playing ball imo.

4) skip the home run derby and all that crap and go do something as a team

5) do the mountain coaster

6) go white water rafting as a team. we had the kids with the coaches and parents across a couple rafts, was a blast

7) go to the sinks and go jump off the cliffs

8) send the moms off to do wine night one of the nights there and go take kids on the coasters or go karts or even the island. your wife will be happy, you will ahve fun etc.



overall great vacation and we had a blast as family and as a team. had a huge group of like 85 that went when you factor in whole families, grand parents etc. overall i would rate it an A. if evrey thing was at Ripken and they would not have had weather come thru that shortened bracket play...would have been A++