Branson Weekend Getaway

WARNING: PICTURE OVERLOAD!!

Ok it's time to pick up where I left off. The day Ava had her stitches removed we drove down to Branson, MO to meet my parents for the weekend. Because Andrew and my Dad's birthdays are only 1 week apart we generally try to get together to celebrate. This year we were in Branson on my Dad's birthday so that was nice. We got to the condo pretty late at night because Adam was held up at work longer than planned that day. However a late arrival did not stop us from opening presents and having some ice cream cake from Coldstone. Of course I didn't take a picture of the cake, but trust me it was yummy :-)

Ava was trying to help Andrew open his presents

I love that he is ok with getting clothes for his birthday

This is a kit to build a birdhouse and something else (I can't remember now). We haven't started it yet, but I'm sure Andrew and Adam will have fun working on it together.

Of course Nana and Pawpaw had to bring Ava a gift too







The next day we went to a go-cart/mini golf place on the "strip". We all played a round of mini golf and then Adam took Andrew on the go-carts. Andrew LOVES go-carts so of course that is all he wanted to do. It is insane how expensive all of those rides are, but worth it in the end to see how happy Andrew is.

Getting some pointers from Pawpaw

Now it's Daddy's turn to help out

Ava decided she needed to get in on the fun

Right where the two birthday boys needed to be :-)

Ava however didn't love the idea of being in jail

This is what he was waiting for

It was really hot out that day so Ava and Nana found some shade

Yes they are sticking their tongues out

Before we left they rode the bumper boats

That night we decided to go to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner. It was so much fun and the food was good too. Of course because it was a Saturday night there was almost an hour wait for a table so we took advantage of the play area they had out front. Ava particularly liked the rides you have to put quarters in. In fact she liked them so much that she threw a nice little tantrum when we ran out of money. You know her Nana couldn't stand that so she went and got more change from inside the restaurant so Miss Priss could ride some more. Like I said before the food that night was really good but probably the best part was how Joe's celebrates birthdays. We told our waiter that it was my Dad's birthday and that Andrew's had been a week earlier. For those of you who have never been, they don't just sing to you. The brought out 2 giant foam cowboy hats and had Dad and Andrew race each other around the restaurant. It was hysterical! Once the race was over and we were almost done with dinner Andrew decided he wanted to get up and dance the Macarena with our waiter. The waiter was such a good sport about it and helped Andrew out with the movements and all of the little extras they add.

All I had with me that night was my phone and it doesn't take very good movement shots so everything turned out blurry, but you get the idea.

Their post race photo along with their stick horses. I think I forgot to mention earlier that they had to race with these horses :-)

Doing the macarena

As you can see we had a great weekend in Branson. I hope we are able to make this an annual trip for as long as we live in Kansas or at least close enough to make the drive.