My Life: Branson, Missouri

This weekend my dad and step mom, Cynda, took Cody and I to Branson, Missouri for a mini vacation. I’ve never felt like I’ve accomplished so much in only two days. We stayed at Still Waters Lakefront Resort off of Indian Point on Table Rock Lake. The first night we watched an outdoor play called Shepherd of the Hills, Harold Bell Wright’s epic story of love, loss, power, hardship, and the true meaning of life.

We spent the first half of each day at Silver Dollar City, a theme park in the Ozark Mountains where you feel like you step back in time to an 1880’s craft village filled with the crafts, thrill rides, carnival attractions, southern gospel music festivals, and the best food ever! There I saw the biggest dutch apple pie I’ve ever seen, a 40 pound monster of a pie! We also spent about an hour on a half a mile walk down under the earth touring Marvel Cave that had the most beautiful natural formations, located beneath Silver Dollar City.

One of our favorite attractions was the world famous blown glass! They make several bowls, cups, etc. right in front of us and their collection of all the glass work was just breathtaking. Even though it was like 50 degrees and cloudy most of our vacation, the sun started to pop out at the end of the first day + I had a poncho = me shooting little kids on the River Blast with water guns for about 30 minutes!!

My dad and Cody were off watching a saloon show while Cynda and I went to a pie baking class at the Culinary School and the boys told us that they got some kettle corn.. kettle corn is one of my favorite things so I couldn’t wait til we met up with them, so we each got 2 large bags of kettle corn, YUM! I loved all of the carnival rides at Silver Dollar City!

We saw this sign posted up at Silver Dollar City for this dangerous couple of a sexy cowboy and saloon girl.

We finished off our vacation at Lambert’s Cafe, home of the throwed rolls, located in Springfield, Missouri. The food was delicious and we almost all caught some rolls (except my dad wasn’t very good at this part, so he had to throw one to himself, lol). Overall, our vacation was a nice break from regular life and we had so much fun going back to my favorite childhood town and acting like we were kids again!