Ok, so it's been weeks since our annual post-parent/teacher conferences trip to Branson... but I haven't posted mostly because I am an airhead! The first major thing to happen in our trip is I realized that I packed the camera in the suitcase when we left Columbia, and neglected to get it out of the suitcase when we left Springfield. So all of the pictures were taken with a disposable camera we bought at Bass Pro when we got to the landing. Which would account for the fabulous quality of said pictures... or not! I forgot how annoying it is to pay to develop pictures, get them back, and have about 3 of 27 pictures be usable! But that was about the only not-so-good thing to happen on our trip, so I guess you'd call it a success! :)
We started off Saturday morning by having breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa (breakfast casserole, yum!) then we headed to Branson. First stop was The Landing. Josh and I had been there briefly, but this time we were there for hours. And we had a great time! Our first find was a candy shop that had this huge model train going around this elevated track. It was very cool! And the shop had some awesome candy! So we picked some out, and wandered around the rest of The Landing munching on it! We got chocolate covered Oreos, chocolate covered coffee beans, chocolate covered toffe (are you sensing a pattern here?) and lots more! So that gave us strength to continue the arduous work of Christmas shopping!
We had a blast! The Landing has tons of cool stores (Discovery Channel, Disney) to play in. So we definitely found some cool gifts, which I would tell you about, but then I'd have to kill you... :) I will say that we cleaned up at the Discovery store, and that was mostly due to Josh's outstanding gift ideas! On top of all of the neat stores, The Landing was also beautifully decorated for Christmas; the pictures just don't do it justice (thank you very much disposable camera). There was a huge tree (and yes, that's my husband in front of it) and little trees and decorations everywhere. The cool thing is that they still had the fountains running, too, so we tried to take a picture of ourselves in front of the fountain (those take it of yourself pictures are always so flattering). The other picture is obviously us in a trick mirror... thus Josh looks 18 feet tall with a head the size of a golf ball.
Anyway, we had a great time, and a very successful time, shopping-wise! We have definitely added a new stop to our Christmas shopping trip!
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