Let's talk Branson, shall we?!?! What's Cooper looking at, you ask?

His brother and daddy on the go-karts..

To whom is she waving?

Her brother and mommy on the go-karts..

We had a great time on our trip to Branson. The first night we were there, we took the kids to one of those HUGE wooden go-kart tracks. We had a blast....the kids liked it too!! But, I really have to tell you all about one of the first things we laid eyes on when we got into Branson. Bear with me, this might get lengthy....

Ok...so we borrowed a GPS unit from Jamie's brother. It would tell us to "turn right" or "turn left". It wouldn't tell us " turn right on maple street" or "turn left on state street" just "turn right" or "turn left". So, we get into Branson and are desperately trying to find out hotel. The GPS tells us "turn right"..so, we did. We turned "right" onto a gravel drive way that went down so as we came over the top of the little hill, we were gazing upon one of Branson's finest TRAILER PARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes. A trailer park right smack dab in town. It was a nice gravel driveway though. It had a cirlce turn around complete with a big tractor tire turned on its side, painted white with some booo-tiful flowers growing...Of course Jamie and I are doubled over laughing, the boys are laughing, and Rubye Ann has begun what would become a 5 day fit throwing fest. Now, I need to back track just a moment. We were already laughing at this next sight when we saw the trailer park, so it all became HYSTERICAL after that. As we were pulling into the gravel driveway, there is an old beat up caddy waiting to pull out. The driver was a little old lady. She could barely see above the steering wheel and she had her oxygen tank sitting in the front seat with her.(no doubt this was a car with a bench front seat) (do they make those anymore????)She had her oxygen tube around her and the canula was right under her nose. She even got dressed up for her outing....she had gotten her rouge and made some perfect little circles on her cheeks. After seeing this and then seeing the trailer park we were only to assume, that we made a wrong turn. So, after we turned around in the driveway, we were sitting behind her at the red light. It was taking FOREVER to change and I even commented on the fact we were having to sit so long. When all of a sudden, Granny punches the gas, sprays a bit of gravel and dust and takes off through the intersection. THE LIGHT WAS STILL RED FOLKS!!!!!!!!!! Evidently, Granny got fed up with sitting so long too, and took off. Jamie's comment was great: "Granny don't play..." After all that, I couldn't help singing "Holiday Road".