Vacation at Branson

The week before Halloween my parents took us down to Branson for vacation while Adriana was on fall break from school. My parents rented a two bedroom condo right on Table Rock Lake and it worked out perfect for all of us. We came down on Saturday after Adriana's soccer game and went grocery shopping when we got there then just hung around the condo that night. Sunday morning we got up early and went to Silver Dollar City.
Here is my parents with the kids when we first got there. At the kids request, we headed straight for the rides. Here is Adriana riding the frog ride.

Adriana and Chris on the swings.Andrew said he was going to wait until his cousin Jacob came with us over Thanksgiving to ride the rides so he didn't ride any.
Next we headed to the giant ball area to play. This place is huge and full of fun things for the kids to play.
Here is Andrew climbing through the tunnels.Chris even joined in helping the kids make it through.Then it was lunch time. They had an area set off where they had food from all different places to eat. Although I didn't get a picture of that, I did get one of Joey's favorite spot which of course was the desert spot.Then we headed for the boys favorite, the train ride. This is my all time favorite train ride because not only do they show you the park but they have robbers robbing the train. My kids think this is so fun and grab up all my change to hand to the robbers as they come by.
Here's Joey enjoying the train ride, thinking he is a big boy sitting on the seat by himself.Uh Oh! Here comes the robbers!
The kids handing over the change.
I had to get a picture of the squirrels here. They are not afraid of anything and we were practically hand feeding them peanuts.

On Monday and Tuesday it was raining off and on so I didn't bring my camera out. But we spent Monday visiting the dam and the egg hatchery.

Tuesday we went shopping and we got Adriana's halloween costume at the Disney store since all the stores in St. Louis are gone. Then we went to the Imax and saw a movie and the kids really enjoyed that.

On Wednesday we headed back to Silver Dollar City and the weather was perfect.

Of course we headed back to the rides first again.

Look, wait who is that? Thats me Wow I made it into a picture!

Me and Adriana riding the dumbo ride.Then we went to watch the saloon show, which has been a favorite of mine since I was a little girl.

Adriana posing with one of the saloon girls.
Andrew getting kissed by the saloon girl, although from the look on his face I don't think he likes girls yet.As you can tell my husband was taking pictures of all the saloon girls, which most were close up.

Andrew getting his picture taken after the show, of course had to bring his gun in the picture with him.Then after the show he had to run around shooting all the bad guys because he was the sheriff (hum, wonder where he gets that from?).Before we left we had to head to the petting zoo, a very favorite spot for the kids.

Joey telling the goats "hello"!
Andrew was backed into the corner and the goat was saying "just hand over all your food and no one gets hurt!"

Then our future veterinarian decides she is going to try to feed the goats some leaves since she saw one eating one earlier. (And you can notice her change of clothes because Chris, Adriana, and I thought it would be great fun to ride the water ride and yes, we got soaked! So I had to go and buy Adriana some dry clothes to wear because we are not the smartest family around!)We had to head back home after Silver Dollar City that night because Andrew had his school halloween party Thurs afternoon and you know we can't miss that! Special thank you for my mom and dad for giving us such a wonderful vacation yet again! If it wasn't for you we would never leave our house!