A Trip to Branson, MO

We headed to Branson, Missouri (the Las Vegas of the Midwest) on Sun and came back Mon evening for a short Labor Day mini-vacay. When we first got to Branson, we went to Branson Landing, an outdoor shopping and dining complex on the riverfront. We had some delicious Mexican food and walked around a bit afterwards. The kids burned off their lunch by going down the giant inflatable slides and jumping around on the moon bounces they had set up.

This slide was extremely fast, so we thought it was best if Mama went with Des. Even though it looks like Mama is choking Des in the above pic, she was not.

Des was very sad and in tears when it was time to get out of the moon bounce. He loved it so much!

We then headed to our hotel that had a huge indoor and outdoor pool called the Splashatorium. The outdoor portion had all of these sprinklers, water shooting guns, and other cool water toys set up for kids and Stella and Des just had a total blast. We probably spent at least a good 3 hours at the pool.

Since the kids didn't take naps and were thoroughly worn out, we all went to bed early that night. Of course, Stella insisted she sleep with Mama, while Des slept with Dada.

The next day, we ate breakfast and Dada and the kids played a quick game of miniature golf on the hotel grounds. (Mama stayed back in the hotel room b/c she unfortunately came down with a bad cold.)

After miniature golf, we checked out and headed to the outlet malls. Stella and Des got some new shoes for fall/winter from the Stride Outlet. We had a fun time on our mini-vacation.