So yeah, as soon as we got to Silver Dollar City (it's like lagoon but much, much, cooler), there was a bad lighting storm. We walked from the parking lot to the front gates, in a wide-open field. Now my girl scout training says that's not the smartest idea.. am I right?
Anyhow, we got up to the gates, got our ticket situation figured out, and by that time the storm stopped and we got to enjoy the park.
This place is very neat.. it's like a pioneer village mixed in with Disneyland. There are craft demonstrations everywhere. I believe we went on only two rides..
even though there are tons of rides, we were just amazed and entertained by watching all the demonstrations.
We went on a fun train ride that traveled throughout the backwoods of the park.
We didn't find out until we got back that something was really wrong with the train!! It turned out to be an hour long ride.
Andy ended up buying a cowboy hat. Is it just me, or is he a STUDMUFFIN?? I call him the Stetson Man.. lol..
After the park we had tickets to go on the Branson Belle Cruise. We couldn't find the loading dock. They had to hold the boat for us!! We boarded an hour late!! But thankfully they rushed us on board and we took off.
The ship was AMAZING!! It makes me ache for a real cruise (hint, hint Andy...). I highly suggest everyone in his or her life take a river cruise, it was highly enjoyable.
After we got back to the hotel at night, we relaxed a bit. I was out walking and a fox came running up to me. This is a wild fox mind you. At any rate, it came up to me, sniffed me, and I wasn't sure what to do.. (like... does it have rabies??), so I just turned and walked away. I think it was looking for handouts.
Around 9:30 at night we started to get a severe thunderstorm. On the news on every station there was a Tornado alert. There are white foghorn-like stands in town. We heard them earlier today.. we think they were tornado warning horns they were testing. We just had a really nasty storm.. thankfully we didn't wake up in Oz.
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