Pin trading time! They wasted no time in getting off the bus to start trading pins. But it was a balmy 87 degrees under the hot sun and the group did not last long. Meanwhile, back home in Groton, it was a 48 degrees.

Cassidy Fiala and Allen Baker pose outside the Shrek house at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center

Inside the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn.