Weekend in Branson

October 20, 2012

This next morning we were up bright and early! We got ready and headed down for a surprisingly Delish Hotel breakfast! The we were off to Silver Dollar City!! We arrive at 8:30 and her were in the park before 9am! It was the perfect day to be at SDC! We started off at the Brown's Candy Store were they make candy!

We watched the candy ladies make black walnut brittle and then you decided you needed to go Salt Water Taffy shopping!

Of course you have never had Salt Water Taffy in our life and we don't do a lot of candy anyway. I can see how tempting it would be it is just fun to look at. You wanted the big prepackage bag of taffy. Daddy and I suggested you select your taffy from the taffy section of the store so you could get the flavors you wanted. You liked this idea, grabbed a basket and started tossing taffies in left and right! We left the store with a load of taffy! You immediately started eating them too and thought they were Yummy!
Then we just wondered on and out of the little shops. The Christmas store was a favorite! You loved the giant Santa's and all of the Christmas displays!

I found your 2012 christmas ornament too! After window shopping we went in search "Caroline Sized"rides. The first ride we came too Tom and Huck's River Blast.This was a ride we could all do together.

You loved getting to shoot the water canons at the targets, of course I was the only person to get shot back at on this ride.

Then we headed to ride the Frisco Song-Along Steam train and got to see all of Silver Dollar City, including the construction on the New wooden coaster that will be open next spring! You loved the train ride!

After the train ride we came back to the Treetop Fun houses and climbing nets. You went in this by yourself and loved it so much you went back through a second time!

We found the Lil Swings and this was the first ride we came to that you were tall enough to ride and you were the only kid in line to ride.

The ride attend put you in the little swing seat and told you to just start yelling if you wanted off. Well one rotation into it You started yelling, "let me off! Let me off!"

So the ride was stopped and off you got! Not A Fun ride! Ha! Then we went to ride Hugo and Mary's Carousel! This made you very happy, first you rode a bear, then a horse, then you and daddy rode in the carriage, and then one last ride on another horse!

This was definitely a highlight of the day! Next was Grandfather's Mansion. We all went through it together and then Daddy went with you a second time! It is so disorienting I had to sit out for the second time. Some nice lady told us about the petting area. I had no idea SDC had one! So we headed over to pet the goats, and the pony.

We finally made it to the area that had the little rides and you and I rode the Happy Frog ride together. You sat in the front and I sat in the back. You hated this ride! It was extremely hoppy and lots of up and down!

After the frog we went to the Ladybugs. The Ladybugs were a huge hit!! This ride was just your speed and you enjoyed riding them!

That was our last attraction at SDC! We headed back to the tram to take us to our parking lot you were passed out before we even got on the Tram! 7 hours of Silver Dollar City will so a girl in!

After a little resting at the hotel we got cleaned up and to dinner. Daddy Eric found us a neat place to eat in Hollister. It was called Mr. Gilberti's. Place.

Mama Gilberti who originally opened Uno's in Chicago came down to Branson and opened Mr. Golberti's and they still use the original recipes. It was Delish Chicago style pizza!
After dinner we went to Andy's froze custard for ice cream! you ate an entire Ice cream cone by yourself! It was good stuff! Then it was time to call it a night! A very Fun and Full day!!
Love,
Momma Katie