Branson Weekend Getaway!

This weekend Justin and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. I know it doesn't seem like we have been married that long but we have and we wanted to do something a little bit different to celebrate our anniversary and the fact that we have now found Katelyn a new daycare. I know I haven't written about what has happened to several of the families there but to make it short we left Community Preschool and had to find somewhere else for Katelyn to go. Not only did Katelyn leave but I resigned from the board....probably too belatedly but time will tell for sure. If you need more information see last week's Fayetteville Free Weekly for the full short of it. (http://www.freeweekly.com/)

So anyway we wanted to do something different but we were both too busy to plan anything and Katelyn has been dying to go to the Butterfly Palace and "Silly Dollar City" in Branson so we decided to make this our last summer vacation and take her along with us. We have to agree with many of the reviews that we read about the Butterfly Palace being too overpriced but it was still fun nonetheless. Katelyn was scared to death of the butterflys too. This was the only picture I could get of a butterfly. But one funny thing that happened was that a butterfly landed on Justin's shirt and I was holding Katelyn right next to him. When he showed her the butterfly on his shirt she climbed onto a stranger's arm just to get away from the butterfly! It was really funny!After the Butterfly Palace we went to a few craft mall. If you have never been to the Branson Mill you should go sometime. It is a big with various local artists and there is some really need booths there. One guy was carving leather which was something new to me and Justin. His work was really nice! We also went to Spirit of the Dance. We both thought that Katelyn would really enjoy this show since she loves to watch Riverdance on Youtube and loves to watch dancing on tv....(Step Up, etc.) but she was bored with the show. There was a bit too many singing numbers for Justin's taste but it was nice and Katelyn was free!

Today we went to "Silly Dollar City" to celebrate KidsFest one last time this year. Katelyn loves all the trains, trucks, and tractors that you can climb on and all the toys and activities that are set up everywhere. We finally broke down and bought her a "berella" as she calls an umbrella with her name on it. She loved it and carried it for shade the rest of the day. We enjoyed many rides this time. Many more than normal but she got totally freaked out on Fire in the whole and was done for the day so we can home just as it was getting way too hot to be outside. Perfect timing!

Justin and Katelyn pulling themselves up the pole...by the Giant Barn Swing.