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family vacation pt 1
Nov. 23rd, 2024 10:44 pm
I took my mom and her partner to Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO for the holiday lights last week. It was . . . a time. : ) We all really enjoyed stopping at Top of the Rock for the golf cart nature trail and museum on Wednesday. It would have been a little pricy probably for the value, but Carl's a Vietnam vet and we got the whole thing for half off.
( pics I did not take, and were probably doctored, but are still pretty )
We went to Cheddar's where I was disappointed in my steak. there is a theme
Thursday we were going to go to the 14 inch pancake place, but it was stuffed and packed past full, and Carl didn't want to wait. I mean, mom and I didn't really want to either, but unfortunately, then I had to drive us to Cracker Barrel. I bought a bag of super long twizzlers, however breakfast was a disappointment.
Then we went junk store shopping. Fine.
THEN it was Silver Dollar City time. My plan the whole time was to bounce from food place to food place, order whatever holiday thing they had and share it between the three of us so no one got stuffed but we'd get to try a bunch of stuff. We started with a funnel cake, and mom wanted the cheesecake chocolate one . . . fine I guess, I wanted the gingerbread or red velvet, but I'm easy going. I think the cake broke my mom, because of course it's a big plateful and Carl decided he didn't want even a bite. So I'm only eating the gooey fantastic bits and then I'm ready to throw the rest away. But it was a lot to throw away and mom got it in her head that we were going to be spending way too much money just to throw most of it away. So I didn't get to try anything else of the tasty stuff I'd investigated online. Fine. I guess.
They did about an hour long musical rendition of A Christmas Carol which was really pretty okay. But it was so loud I ended up with a headache that followed for the rest of the day.
The "funny" show was super lame. But it was the fun kind of super lame? At least until the vaguely amusing and really dumb show ground to a halt so one of the women dressed as an old timey saloon girl could tell me about her lord and savior, drone a bible verse, and lead the crowd in Joy to the World. The intrusive voice in my head wanted to yell "Hail Satan! I mean, Santa, I'm dyslexic!" but I resisted. I should have expected the overtly religious parts of the show/city/decorations, but I didn't and it was a bit of a shock to my little secular heart.
For similar reasons, we skipped the Living Nativity.
Ate at their BBQ place. It was disappointing.
The lights were so good! And we got hot chocolate with the works for toppings and it was delicious!
Carl did not want to stay for the kid's parade and honestly I was pretty done.
I am very glad I never have to do it again.
On Friday, the only thing Carl had asked to do was to go to this restaurant Flaming Margaritas. It sounds like a fun place, right? You look it up on Facebook and it's a vibrant, hip place where people are having fun and the food looks good and big Mexican fair. There's no way I could be disappointed, right? Right?!? Unfortunately that was the older location. They wanted to go to the new location on the Landing. This place is beige on beige on beige. It is not fun and hip and it has tacos, but they were lame. I ended up with a surf and turf burger that was way over cooked and pretty bland.
Alas I was cursed the entire trip to sad food choices. I got home Friday night and ordered my favorite chicken and waffles from Hatch for breakfast on Saturday morning to make up for it.
I went to work on Saturday, and then drove to the other family Sunday, still exhausted and over peopled. But this is part 2 and requires background about my brother's arrest for coke in the early summer.
( pics I did not take, and were probably doctored, but are still pretty )
We went to Cheddar's where I was disappointed in my steak. there is a theme
Thursday we were going to go to the 14 inch pancake place, but it was stuffed and packed past full, and Carl didn't want to wait. I mean, mom and I didn't really want to either, but unfortunately, then I had to drive us to Cracker Barrel. I bought a bag of super long twizzlers, however breakfast was a disappointment.
Then we went junk store shopping. Fine.
THEN it was Silver Dollar City time. My plan the whole time was to bounce from food place to food place, order whatever holiday thing they had and share it between the three of us so no one got stuffed but we'd get to try a bunch of stuff. We started with a funnel cake, and mom wanted the cheesecake chocolate one . . . fine I guess, I wanted the gingerbread or red velvet, but I'm easy going. I think the cake broke my mom, because of course it's a big plateful and Carl decided he didn't want even a bite. So I'm only eating the gooey fantastic bits and then I'm ready to throw the rest away. But it was a lot to throw away and mom got it in her head that we were going to be spending way too much money just to throw most of it away. So I didn't get to try anything else of the tasty stuff I'd investigated online. Fine. I guess.
They did about an hour long musical rendition of A Christmas Carol which was really pretty okay. But it was so loud I ended up with a headache that followed for the rest of the day.
The "funny" show was super lame. But it was the fun kind of super lame? At least until the vaguely amusing and really dumb show ground to a halt so one of the women dressed as an old timey saloon girl could tell me about her lord and savior, drone a bible verse, and lead the crowd in Joy to the World. The intrusive voice in my head wanted to yell "Hail Satan! I mean, Santa, I'm dyslexic!" but I resisted. I should have expected the overtly religious parts of the show/city/decorations, but I didn't and it was a bit of a shock to my little secular heart.
For similar reasons, we skipped the Living Nativity.
Ate at their BBQ place. It was disappointing.
The lights were so good! And we got hot chocolate with the works for toppings and it was delicious!
Carl did not want to stay for the kid's parade and honestly I was pretty done.
I am very glad I never have to do it again.
On Friday, the only thing Carl had asked to do was to go to this restaurant Flaming Margaritas. It sounds like a fun place, right? You look it up on Facebook and it's a vibrant, hip place where people are having fun and the food looks good and big Mexican fair. There's no way I could be disappointed, right? Right?!? Unfortunately that was the older location. They wanted to go to the new location on the Landing. This place is beige on beige on beige. It is not fun and hip and it has tacos, but they were lame. I ended up with a surf and turf burger that was way over cooked and pretty bland.
Alas I was cursed the entire trip to sad food choices. I got home Friday night and ordered my favorite chicken and waffles from Hatch for breakfast on Saturday morning to make up for it.
I went to work on Saturday, and then drove to the other family Sunday, still exhausted and over peopled. But this is part 2 and requires background about my brother's arrest for coke in the early summer.
