{"id":1432,"date":"2010-03-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:08:43","slug":"my-world-road-trip-to-silver-dollar-city-in-branson-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"My World &#8211; Road Trip to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family went on a spring break trip to Branson in southwest Missouri to go to the Silver Dollar City theme park. It&#8217;s only a few hours from Tulsa but we have never been. I&#8217;ve always kind of rolled my eyes at Branson because of the general chessiness of the whole &#8220;show&#8221; thing and I&#8217;m not a fan of amusement parks.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, Sweetie rented us a cabin, we packed up and went and we had a great time, especially SuperPizzaBoy.<\/p>\n<p>Sweetie booked us a great cabin complete with rocking chairs in the front and plumbing and a fireplace inside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4449975715\/\" title=\"20100321_17 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4449975715_2420669820-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_17\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was furnished very nicely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4449985863\/\" title=\"20100321_21 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4449985863_cfa870afb6-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_21\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The local food was good, especially the stuffed hamburgers at Chester&#8217;s.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4449992561\/\" title=\"20100321_26 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4449992561_afaab4792d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_26\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was an electronics free weekend so we played Mexican dominoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450782210\/\" title=\"20100321_35 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450782210_cd635e2326-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ate some smores<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450779794\/\" title=\"20100321_34 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450779794_0772ee229d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_34\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and relaxed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450764236\/\" title=\"20100321_25 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450764236_339796d15c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_25\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Silver Dollar City we did some rides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450043499\/\" title=\"20100321_49 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450043499_417b6d9d0d-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_49\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Not actually that one, but I liked the picture.)<\/p>\n<p>We saw some corny skits<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450807846\/\" title=\"20100321_46 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450807846_35fc00b620-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_46\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We saw Doc Gizmo do his science show<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450057223\/\" title=\"20100321_55 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450057223_4e4f7d4dcc-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100321_55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We checked out some shops<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450047257\/\" title=\"20100321_51 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450047257_568cefb0de-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100321_51\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We clowned around a little bit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450854108\/\" title=\"20100321_63 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450854108_f13defcc3d-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100321_63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Branson we saw a light show,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450211475\/\" title=\"20100321_99 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450211475_6abafb2797-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_99\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drove down the strip and saw King Kong attacking the city<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4449996893\/\" title=\"20100321_29 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4449996893_00cd448e95-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_29\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and of course, you will never guess, the whole point of the trip,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450597879\/\" title=\"20100321_148 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450597879_864f18110d-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100321_148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We went geocaching!! There were two in the park but they involved taking rides that had long lines. The Yogi&#8217;s avoid lines so I found two out on Tablerock Lake.<\/p>\n<p>We saw some deer coming back from the caches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450606989\/\" title=\"20100321_151 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450606989_cb79bab297-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450611563\/\" title=\"20100321_153 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450611563_51fc4d9b1c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the last night we toasted to a good trip<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450789663\/\" title=\"20100321_161 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450789663_0b716a0b9c-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450739461\/\" title=\"20100321_157 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450739461_0ef27592e8-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"20100321_157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And drove back home to Tulsa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4450846959\/\" title=\"20100321_176 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/4450846959_c4ea3b4bcd-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"20100321_176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For other photographs and stories from all over the world check out <a href=\"http:\/\/showyourworld.blogspot.com\/\">That&#8217;s My World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family went on a spring break trip to Branson in southwest Missouri to go to the Silver Dollar City theme park. It&#8217;s only a few hours from Tulsa but we have never been. I&#8217;ve always kind of rolled my eyes at Branson because of the general chessiness of the whole &#8220;show&#8221; thing and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,103,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-geocaching","category-my-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}