Branson Day Two

Silver Dollar City began our day. It was disappointing; very crowded and very hot. We rode a few big roller coasters and left. We'll go back tomorrow and try it again, with a different strategy in movement around the park. Kaylin is finally 42" and could ride the big roller coasters. Par for the course with our kids, she loved them! I'd forgotten how fast Powder Keg shoots you out; it's 0-60 in about 5 seconds. On our turn, some kids in the front seat threw up a pen; it just hung in the air for a few seconds as the rest of the train went by. Could have been really dangerous, but luckily it just fell on the track later.

In the afternoon, we went swimming at our hotel. Bobby's sister had called medical supply stores and found a waterproof cast protector for us. We picked it up on Monday, and it worked like a charm!! Macy was swimming underwater (Yes, Macy, our girl who doesn't like to get her face wet!) Of course, her feet were doing all the work because one arm was useless with the cast and protector, and the other hand was holding her nose closed. But it was so great to see her out there swimming, and knowing that part of our vacation wasn't ruined!

Celebration City was our next stop. Once again, Macy turned in a roller coaster snob, not wanting to ride the "baby" rides. We forced her to ride with her sister. We ran into a teacher I work with, and her twin boys were at preschool with Kaylin last year. They rode some "baby" rides with Kaylin so Macy could go ride the big roller coasters.

While Macy was on the kiddie train, there was another little girl in the same car. I saw Macy talking to her, but didn't think anything about it. As soon as the ride was over, she came shooting over to me: "Can we go ride the Wildcat now?" Little girl did the same thing with her dad. We all 4 headed over there. Come to find out, that dad had been trying to get his daughter to ride roller coasters all day, and she was too chicken. But then Macy, who is 6, started talking to this girl, who will be 8 next week, and talked this girl into riding the roller coaster! Talk about peer pressure!!

Fireworks and some custard ended our night, and the girls went to sleep without a word of complaint. Tomorrow we do it all over again.