Branson Family Fun

BRANSON

Despite the weather reports we hiked it on the happy trail to Branson this past weekend. Some were on a mission for the rides at Silver Dollar City, others were ready to get their SHOP on at Tanger, and a few were stoked for any excuse to eat at Cantina Laredo at the Landing.

I will admit to all the above.

Kellen and cousin Brody both went on their first RIDE at SDC.

K had his 'serious' expression on the entire time but when we were leaving the ride he was pointing to go back so that means he liked it.

The older the other 3 get the more into rides they are and the more daring they are getting. We are looking forward to taking them all to amusement parks over the next several years.

For the most part Kellen was too little, but he seemed to enjoy watching the others ride.. He would hoop and holler and yell 'whoa' and clap and laugh as he watched. Unfortunately Gramma didn't feel well the entire trip.. she was a good sport though. especially since Kellen decided it was a Gramma kind of day and insisted that she carry him for most of the time.

I think Brody hopped in hoping Kellen was driving the get away car. ha

(serious face)  

Jaxson had a blast with his cousins as always. The Powder keg was closed but we road the others. He loved The Flooded Mine and kept asking what it was called again.. that means he was trying hard to remember , which in Jaxsonville means he was impressed :)

After dinner it was off to The Track for some go-cart racing. The weather held out all day but was starting to brew that evening, but we finally tracked down one that was still open.. I opted to stay with the 2 squirts so the others could have fun on the go-carts. I got some not so cool pics from the nikon 'coolpix' of everyone racing.. just not the day to bring along the big camera.. They all had a BLAST. Uncle Chris and Reece tried to pass Aunt Dana and Caden and she wasn't having it, so she crashed em. ha

Meanwhile Brody, Kellen and I were having a little stroller party of our own!

:)

The next day it rained, we shopped and it rained some more.

Lunch was at the HardLuck Cafe, which was a hoot. Our waitress sang like

Tay Tay Swift and the best was when the 70 year old fry cook came out, dawning his black apron and black jeans and tee and sang Cash..

awesome

On the way home, Jon and I stopped to fill up and in traditional fashion I went in and got us some scratch offs. Jax scratched off 2 winning tickets (to anyone wondering, YES the color of the tickets were BLUE).

Branson family fun!