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| Branson, KOA |
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| Daily dog walk while at the KOA |
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| Cute Downtown Branson |
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| Us and the "normal" trailers, that usually only have 2 people in them. Aren't we cute!? |
Despite the freezing cold forecast, we were determined to enjoy our 2nd annual Branson, MO trip. We knew it might snow and definitely would be bitter cold while we were there, but we were determined to go on with our plans and adjust them if needed. It turned out to be a good thing because while it did sleet and snow a bit on our first day there, the worst of the storm went farther north of us. The cold weather did cause a few adjustments to our trip. For example, with a high below freezing, hiking was out. Instead, we went to historic downtown and enjoyed looking around and shopping. Their historic downtown is super cute. I will say it was hard to sleep at night in the pop up. Normally, we run one heater turned about halfway up and stay comfortably warm, but here with lows in the low teens we had two heaters running full blast almost constantly and still slept in sweats and a jacket. IT WAS COLD! We did have a cable hook up so the kids were excited to watch some shows on ABC Family when we needed a break from doing stuff out in the cold. The stupid dog once again broke her tail open and was busy painting the bottom half of the camper in her blood, but this time we actually put gauze and duct tape directly on her tail. This made it stay on and consequently she stopped painting the camper. However, removing said tape from the hair on her tail was NOT a fun experience for any of us, though D did a pretty good job of not making her look too stupid when he cut it off.
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| This did NOT work. The tape method was used next and that did manage to work. |
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| Branson Landing |
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| The historic trolley |
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| It was free to ride and worth it to get around downtown. It is HORRIBLY busy, even on an off day it was crazy. |
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| The original 5 & 10 in Branson...though nothing was a nickel or a dime. |
Our most favorite thing we did on this Branson trip was probably lunch on the Showboat Branson Belle. The food was fantastic and the show was great. It is always us and the other 80 year olds at the shows. I am pretty sure I never saw any another children except mine the entire trip. Branson, at least when we go, definitely caters to an older retired crowd, which makes it a more relaxed trip. No one is ever in a hurry. It is more like a celebration they made it another day. They did have a homeschool day at the adventure park while we were there, but we didn't attend. I am not sure where the kids come from for that, but they must commute from outside the city limits. We also went to the Christmas Wonderland show which was okay. The girls liked it, but I was a little disappointed and the boys didn't want to go in the first place. My mother, T, L, and D had a blast doing the zipline also. A and I decided it was too cold and too expensive to be that miserable. We might try it next time IF it is warmer.
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| Christmas Wonderland |
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| Mel's Hard Luck Diner-servers sing while serving--Some have made it pretty far on American Idol--They were good!!! |
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| Old steamboat with a three course meal and show. The food was fantastic. |
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| Our Seats on the Belle. |
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| Our view of the stage. |
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| The deck of the Belle. |
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| Shepherd of the Hills Christmas Light Display. |
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| My mom and T having a blast on the zipline. |
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| L and D had a great time too, but it was COLD! |
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| College of the Ozarks campus. |
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| The famous dam. It supplies electricity for most of Branson! |
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| Fish Hatchery |
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| We had fun feeding the fish--there were thousands! |
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| It was a large hatchery. |
It was nice that we were able to hire someone to watch the chickens. I had the sitter text me after her visit everyday just to give us piece of mind. It worked. I was able to relax and enjoy our trip without worrying the hens had frozen water or no water because they knocked it over. Now that we are back, we are introducing the new hen -that we found half dead in a ditch- to the others. She has made a nice recovery in the past three weeks.So far, the original flock is being pretty mean to the new girl. They won't let her in the coop and chase her around the pen, but we try not to interfere because once the pecking order is down then they should calm down a lot.
Happy Thanksgiving Every One!
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