This Thanksgiving we went down to the Cape. We’ve got some family traditions that are becoming stronger each year. We arrived on Wednesday and we all went out to the Cinema Pub to see Ralph Breaks the Internet. Seeing a movie there before Thanksgiving is starting to become a little tradition. As long as there is a good family movie to see then it may continue. It is also something that we do to celebrate Andrew’s Birthday.
Andrew was born a few days before Thanksgiving and we actually brought him home from the hospital on Thanksgiving that year. This year his birthday happened to land right on Thanksgiving. That is why he has pie and cake and ice cream in his photo above.
Thanksgiving day we had a delicious meal with Mom, Dad and my grandfather, Rick. Dad went to Pie in the Sky bakery in the afternoon and picked up dinner rolls. My mom had ordered our whole meal from Windfall and apparently they forgot the rolls. I think that Eva is going to want to get those rolls every year form now on, though. Continue reading A Thanksgiving Birthday→
The Silver Dollar City Entrance (Photo Credit: Angie – Going Out The Door)
At the beginning of November I spent a few days in Branson, MO enjoying an Ozark Mountain Christmas. I paid my way out there but once I arrived the rest of my trip was compensated for me. I detailed the entire trip in a previous post and this time I want to focus on two of the things that we did on the trip. That was visiting Silver Dollar City and taking a ride on the Showboat Branson Belle. Both are attractions run by Silver Dollar Attractions. We had the VIP treatment in both locations and it was so much fun.
Our first stop at Silver Dollar City was Eva and Delilah’s Bake shop that makes so many delicious treats. Here you can get huge, and I mean huge cinnamon rolls and sticky buns among other things. I took a look at the prices expecting them to be outrageous but they were not. In fact everywhere around the part I was impressed by what I saw as far as prices on things to eat and souvenirs. You get a lot for our dollar here. I did a livestream from the bakery and we even got to try a bunch of their treats.
Further into the park we took a look at a traditional cabin. What is interesting about this one is that it was actually moved, board by board from another location to preserve it. This was a very well put together cabin that has a stone fireplace in the middle so that it can heat the entire thing. There were even automatic door closers built into the design. This was a rope and pulley system that made sure that the doors were always automatically closed. There were singers in one side of the cabin but we weren’t able to see them before we headed to our next spot. We did, however see some Christmas Carolers. We enjoyed them while we alos enjoyed some authentic Wassail. Continue reading Travel Back In Time for an Old Fashioned Christmas to Silver Dollar City and the Showboat Branson Belle→
