For the past several years we have traveled to Big Cedar Lodge (just south of
Branson, MO) to celebrate Easter. My parents meet us down there and if possible my other sisters will meet us too. We always have a great time. Generally, the kids are able to ride horses, play in The Lazy River, and have an outdoor egg hunt. This year ... not so much. In fact, it rained the entire time we were there. It rained and rained and just when we thought it might let up it rained some more. Nonetheless, we had a great time.
Kira, Keenan and
Keylee with the Easter Bunny after the indoor egg hunt. Imagine
the madness with all the children running inside the Big Cedar Convention Center looking for eggs. Further imagine the madness with all the parents trying to snap pictures.
At times the weather was so bad they even closed the indoor pool. Kira, Keenan and
Keylee were able to get some time in the pool.
Inside the main lobby area there is a place for the kids to play with Lincoln Logs.
This is a picture of the people in my family who were able to make the trip. We were glad that my sister,
Tamie, and her husband, Greg, were able to make the trip.
Keylee paid close attention to the lady giving directions for the egg hunt. The lady told the children there were some golden eggs and the child who found a golden egg would get a special surprise (the golden egg was not actually golden it was more of an olive green color). After the egg hunt was over, I walked over to
Keylee and looked in her basket to find that every egg in her basket was yellow. She passed up all of the other colors to get only yellow. She thought the yellow eggs were the "golden" color that the lady told the kids to find. My parents were pretty impressed with how well she listened and tried to follow the directions. I had to break the news to them that she doesn't always listen that well nor does she always follow my directions the way she followed the lady's directions for the egg hunt.
After the egg hunt the kids were able to decorate
egss.
Given the constant rain, the kiddos were able to go into
Branson and play indoor putt-putt golf and play at an arcade. As you can see Kira hit the lucky 1000 tickets on a game. My kids always have a great time at Big Cedar Lodge and we always enjoy spending time there with my parents.
On my way back from lunch I noticed a really neat motorcycle in the parking lot. My office is near the mall and several down town eating locations. I figured the owner of the motorcycle was either shopping or eating or both. I thought I had a few minutes to snap a shot of this bike and send it out to friends as my own. However, it was even better than that. As I was taking the picture I saw a man approaching who appeared as if he could be the owner of the bike. I said, "I hope you don't mind I am taking a picture of your super cool bike." He said, "heck no, jump on I will take your picture on the bike." Then he proceeded to tell me all about his different motorcycles he currently owns, motorcycles that he is searching for to purchase and ones he has had and sold. I really didn't care about all that but politely smiled and nodded my head as if I was interested. I told him all I know is this bike looks like the ones I see on American Chopper.
