Here is the cabin. I tried to get pictures before we "made ourselves at home" but it didn't work out the best.
We also took some family pictures. I wish we would have gotten more during the week but atleast we got one at the very beginning. The girls wanted to be unicorns so I told them if they did a good picture we could also be unicorns. I think it worked out ok. :)
After getting settled into our cabin and taking a look around we got ready and headed to our first show. It was Joseph. Last year I wanted to go to Noah but for a variety of reasons we weren't able to go so I wanted to make sure and go this year. The theater is huge and beautiful and I have heard that the productions they put on are amazing. So, we went.
Mimi stayed back at the cabin because she wouldn't appreciate it like the rest of us but the other two loved it. Well Troublemaker loved the first half, she feel asleep during the very beginning of the second half. But Bumpkin loved the whole thing. After being there over three hours she asked if "that was all" when it was finished! Crazy!
The next day we did a whole lot of swimming. It was beautiful outside and the weather was perfect. Then, at night, daddy and I went on the Branson Showboat Belle for our anniversary. We had a nice surprise too because it was Memorial Day Weekend so there were fireworks while we were on the boat. It was a good time.
On Monday and Wednesday we went to Silver Dollar City. I love how many businesses in Branson (and most other places actually) support the troops. But Silver Dollar City's deal was pretty great. We bought a two day pass for the cost of a one day pass, and got the kids in free.
It was great not having to rush around and try to fit everything into one day. Instead, we could take our time, enjoy some rides, see some shows, and come back in a couple days to do anything we missed. It was great to have that ability! So, we visited the kiddie ride area a couple different times then took breaks and did other activities.
I was so excited to convince the older girls to go on the river raft ride. I didn't think they would do it but they were excited and love it. It is actually one of the few rides that we went on both days. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of them riding the ride for obvious reasons but they had a blast. On the second day Troublemaker was tired though and chose not to ride again. Instead, we stood at the area were you could pay to shoot the riders with water guns. She thought that was the greatest.... and of course we had to get in a few practice rounds before our group came by. On the first day at the very end we took a ride around the park on the train.
It was a 20 minute, site seeing, entertainment ride where at the middle the train ran into some robbers. Troublemaker was having a good time but once we stopped for the robbers she lost interest. Apparently she wasn't very concerned about them.....
On the second day we went to a saloon show. It was pretty cute and the girls thought it was funny. I was amazed but Bumpkin didn't want to take her picture with the girls. Troublemaker did though. Oh wow, she is cute!
Another thing that I was so excited that the girls tried was an indoor roller coaster. For indoor roller coasters it was pretty tame, most of it was riding around looking at different scenes, but there were three dips that were done completely in the dark. The girls talked about it nonstop when they got off and told everything they needed to go, but I couldn't get them to go with anyone again. haha
Stay tune for Branson 2012 Part 2
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