Adventure 3, Silver Dollar City

Monday afternoon we pulled into our rental house.  It was very nice to have the house for the week.  It was a cute little house that worked out just fine.  I had thought there were three bedrooms but there were only two.  It was a cute little home with personality and was good for what we needed.  Alex and Ivy quickly came over and we enjoyed our time with them. 

The next day was Sierra’s birthday.  We headed to the campus to show the kids where Alex has spent most of his time these past three years.  After touring the campus, we treated them all to Lamberts, the home of the throwing rolls.  Then, just what every 15 year old girls wants for her birthday, we took her to the Bass Pro Shop.  The kids had a great time seeing the sights.  To end our day, we went back to the house for a birthday party. 

Sierra was still not feeling well but Wednesday morning we headed to Silver Dollar City.  This time of year the operating hours are only from 10:00 to 6:00.  We got there as early as possible and took off on our next adventure.  We had our Coke bottles so we got $5.00 off our tickets per person.  Unfortunately Alex was in the midst of finals and finishing final papers so he was unable to join us, but Ivy had finished all her finals and was able to come with us.  There were a lot of retired people there, so the shows were quite full but the rides were very easy to get on.  We basically walked to the front of the line for the rides and could get right on the rides.  It took us a little to figure out where we wanted to go and how to get there.  We tried to get to a couple shows right before they were going and they were already full.  We learned to get to the shows early.  If we had gone a second day it would have not cost that much more and it would have been nice because we would have been better prepared but we needed to get back to Springfield to the Graduation adventure. 

rolling hills of Missouri, very green

The kids checking out the turtles at Bass Pro Shop

Mom and Dad with their baby girls

The party at the rental house

Our first ride at Silver Dollar

Aidric loved the train ride

Lunch break

David got to ride the frogs with Aidric

Danika got to ride with Isabella

Aidric and Danika walking around, but the poor boys pants were a little big
so he had to hold on to them to keep them up.

The end to a nice day.