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Travel Back In Time for an Old Fashioned Christmas to Silver Dollar City and the Showboat Branson Belle

Silver Dollar City
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.

Eva and Delilahs Bake Shop

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

What is an Ozark Mountain Christmas?

I love Branson

I spent last week in Branson, Missouri. I had never been there before, although my very first hospital install was in Bolivar, Missouri a little town about an hour North of Branson. Had I realized just how close that was I probably would have tried to get down to see a show during one of my trips to Bolivar. The thing that I remembered most about Bolivar and Missouri in general was that the people were so friendly and welcoming. I would see this even more on my week in Branson. I was there for part of the Blogging Branson event where 15 bloggers and friends traveled to Branson to stay at the Stone Castle Hotel and visit many attractions, restaurants and shows in Branson. I paid my way to get to Branson and once I was there my meals, entertainment and lodging were compensated.

Branson Bloggers
Branson Bloggers Christmas Party (Photo Credit: Angie – Going Out the Door)

Before we started to explore what Branson had to offer we had a Christmas meal and White Elephant exchanged to get in the Christmas mood. We visited the home of Angie who would be our tour guide, mentor, mother duck and friend during this trip. Angie set everything up with the venues and the hotel. She opened her home to us for this evening where we broke bread, shared laughter and had a night of fun. We were encouraged to wear an ugly sweater for the event and so I picked up a Deadpool one to wear. I also brought my Santa shorts and realized it was much too cold to put them on buy themselves so as a joke I put them on over my jeans. Angie got a kick out of that. She got a shot of me in all my silliness. Continue reading What is an Ozark Mountain Christmas?