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I'm Back!!

Oh, yes I am!

I would like to say that it felt really good to be in my own bed last night. But, unfortunately my vacation bed was REALLY WONDERFUL and could not be beat by my bed.
It was good to be in my own home though. With my reclining furniture. Oh, how I love my new furniture. It is soft, plush, and it reclines!
Here is a rundown of what we did on vacation. (I will put it in list form, so as to not make it be such a school project, because that is what my children will be doing tomorrow. The old" What did you do on summer vacation?" paper!)
  • Monday- Drove and drove and drove! Went to see Noah-the Musical. It was SOOOO Good! If you are in Branson, (or Pennsylvania) you must go see it. It lasts almost 3 hours and the kids were never tired, bored, or restless! Ate at Chili's and went to Walmart, pretty typical Monday!
  • Tuesday- Went to Silver Dollar City. The kids love that place and for some reason I do too. I tried to figure out why I like it so much and I can't come up with a reason, but I really like it. It rained, we went back to the room and ate leftover bbq and played Clue!
  • Wednesday- Gustav visited with a vengeance! We ate lunch out, shopped (I can shop in the rain!) tricked everyone else into seeing Star Wars-the Clone Wars and Stephen and I shopped together, just the two of us for a couple of hours. Stopped by the grocery and bought lunch meat and ate in the room again, and played Clue.
  • Thursday-Went to Silver Dollar City (we had 2-day tickets) and rode rides until it rained AGAIN. GUSTAV!!!! We then surprised everyone and went to the Dixie Stampede. We have gone to Branson for 6 or 7 years now and have never been to the Dixie Stampede, it just never seemed like something we would like. But after a few rave reviews from friends we went. And man, did we enjoy it! As you know I embarrassed my sister and possibly one of my sons. But we had such a great time!
  • Friday- A beautiful day. God really made up for the 3 days of rain. We played putt-putt, and rode paddle boats at the resort. We had such fun and made some really good memories. We then went to Cracker Barrel (but my craving for pancakes had passed) and onto Celebration City. That is such a fun amusement park too. It is like a carnival but really clean and safe.
  • Saturday-The boys and Stephen went on an hour long horseback ride, while Anna went on a 10 minute pony ride. Anna wasn't real fond of Festus at first, but she got used to it and had a good time, no matter what the pictures look like! (speaking of pictures, I will post them later!) The kids swam in the lazy river and had a fun time at the pool. Then we went back to Celebration City (we had 2-day tickets there too!)
  • Sunday-Stephen, the kids and I went to church. We were seated (by some well-meaning usher) on the 3rd row, right behind the preacher that was there in view of a call! The church used to be a theater so imagine us on the main floor and everyone else in stadium seats all around us. Fun times! Went to Landry's for Stephen's birthday lunch-a day early-and went back to spend the afternoon in the lazy river at the resort. That evening we went to Branson Landing and saw someone I knew. We were there a whole week and I saw one person I knew!
  • Monday-Stephens 37th birthday! We drove home and ordered his birthday present online since we couldn't find it in any store we went to. Spent the evening at home and when it was time to go to bed, I wished I was on my vacation bed. Why is it that we always stay somewhere with great mattressess?

I know this was long, but you've been forced to spend the week with Abby, so I was trying to make up for it! HA!

Julie

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