Can't Silence These Lambs: Brrrrrr Weekend in Branson

Our Spring break trip

We decided we all needed to get out of town after the move and everything that had happend. Plus it was Spring break and everyone knows you go on a vacation on spring break. Max was all pumped up about the trip. He loves vacations and especially when we get to stay in a hotel. The weather called for rain, wintery mix, snow, and cold weather - possibly - but we already had reservations everywhere and we all really wanted to go so we packed up Saturday morning and headed to Branson.

Below was what we drove into - COLD and snow on the ground

Silver Dollar City

So the plan was to go to Silver Dollar City. We already have season passes so it's pretty much a free trip, sometimes you spend $10-15 on food or drink. Well we read on weather.com that it is 36 degrees. The local weather says 36 degrees. Rides open at 35 degrees - sounds good to us! yes it was cold but we figured we didn't have to stay long, it was what we had planned to do, the kids would have a blast anyways, and we could always go to inside shows - so we decided to go

Here is the Great shootout ride. You have a gun and get to shoot targets while riding in a boat - pretty much every little boys dream ride. The boys LOVE this ride.

It was a short trip. Turns out Silver Dollar City only thought it was 34 so pretty much nothing was opened. We were also inbtween seasons apparently so there wasn't a show in the big opera house OR the saloon show! I was so sad. They didn't even have the ball pit open because there was still snow there. So....Silver Dollar City was not the best decision but we laughed most of the time and we sure made a funny memory and hey...it was free :) The only time we tried to buy hot chocolate we couldn't even find any!

AFter SDC we went to the outlet malls. Mike loves Banana Republic and mom and me got to shop a few stores too. AFter that we went to the hotel to relax and just enjoy the place. We had a 2 bedroom 2 bath huge apartment. The boys loved running around and it felt good to just sit and watch some tv and take naps.

Later that night we had reservations for Dixie Stampede. It was a lot of fun. For those of you who haven't gone I would recommend it. Its a dinner show - so you watch a live show and they serve you dinner - a huge dinner - at the same time. It is very entertaining, the kids did great. They really did. Max even did perfect I would say. There were a few times Alex had to passed lap to lap but all in all we never had to leave with them and he never threw a fit so that was good with us.