Branson

Mom and I went to Branson the last of May with Rosalie and Tom Scholes. Our flights didn't look good on Saturday, so we went to SLC on Friday the 28th and stayed with Teri. Teri thought we needed to be picked up, so she sent Scott to the airport. We had rented a car and were to Teri's while Scott was at the airport (sorry Scott). We didn't get on our flight to Memphis on Friday, but found one to Atlanta, so we went there and got a hotel for the night. Sunday morning we flew to Springfield, got our car and went on to Branson. We didn't get to the resort until noon and church was at 1:00 and about 30 miles away. We made it. Church was very enjoyable. The people were very friendly. The gospel doctrine teacher was one of the Duttons who perform in Branson.

Our resort is just a 100 yards from a huge Lake (740 mile shoreline). We can see it out our window. It is beautiful. We drove part way around it. The resort is OK, but not a real nice one. It doesn't even compare to Worlmark.

We went to several shows: Twelve Irish Tenors, Six, Noah, a dance show, a Chinese acrobat show, and on a riverboat for a show. They were all good, but the best was Noah. I was hesitant to go as I thought it would be a spoof. It was the real story of Noah. They built the ark and gathered the animals (many live ones). When the 2nd half began after intermission, we were sitting in the ark. There were cages and animals on three sides of us. It was about 60 feet high. It is impossible to describe, but was utterly fantastic. We liked it so much, we paid to go on the backstage tour. It was fun. My legs hurt so much, I finally asked for a wheel chair. Mom pushed me around in it.

We also went to Silver Dollar City. It is kind of like Lagoon, but much more on historical things like the blacksmith, glass blowing, woodcarving and turning, etc. It was good. My legs gave out again, but I made it. They had a country music concert that evening that we went to. It was good also. We only went on two rides, a water raft one that soaked us and the train. While on the train, we got robbed by two Missouri hill billies. It was fun.

In between the shows and the sight seeing, Mom and Rosalie just happened to get in a lot of shopping. We went to the outlets and other shopping venues.

We left Saturday morning.

Love, Dad