April 11, Friday
Last Friday we had breakfast at a convenience store (isn't that weird?) in an eatery called Area71. I teased about it being Area 51. The owner only had the place 2 months and plans to change it to LakeVibz, more contemporary. The food was really, really good - breakfast burrito.
Then to Branson Belle Showboat, a big paddle boat, 4 levels, a musical show, and food - green beans, the best gravy and tender roast I'd ever, ever had with mashed potatoes and grilled chicken breast. The Master of Ceremonies did a rope trick, one number had a ballerina in the background, and I got to be on stage. The goal was to never answer yes or no. But, I failed, he slipped in a question while I was still thinking of the last question and I answered yes. Durn!
Jeani had NEVER heard of any of the country-western songs but knew all the others. One of the performers sang a really high-pitched soprano part when Jeani said, "Dude, your pants are too tight."
So that evening I stepped through David's door and I found Jesus - cuz I stepped on him.
ROFL! Found out that the crew buy up little bags of him and strew them around for people to find - rubber eraser-like and no bigger than a quarter.
David was a Sight and Sound play - one year Esther, this year David, and I think next year Noah. FANTASTIC! FX, props, costumes, songs, skylights and Goliath and his giants that were 22 feet tall made for an outstanding performance. The place was packed, and the big building was all theatre. The giants dropped forward on their faces and their bodies scattered like heaved rocks and their fall boomed like thunder. If ever you want to use the words AMAZING and AWESOME this was the time!
There were live animals, especially sheep, realistic sword fights, King David playing a homemade lute, and at the end the ceiling was absolutely filled with stars, then they came falling down. In front of us were 2 or 3 rows of kids all in one family with adults that reached up to the sky, with innocent faces turned up, and their little hands outstretched reaching, it was the sweetest thing I'd ever seen in my life!!!!
April 12, Saturday
So, before the trip home from Branson, I'd gotten up 5:30 or so, and I was startled when I walked into the condo kitchen. There stood a man in black! It was Calvin. I thought he was still in bed, LOL. I fixed him some coffee and we taste tested some Harry Potter beans - not the jalepeno, black pepper, or vomit! Oh, ear wax and grass and earthworm got our goats the day before!
At Springfield at Lamberts, we ordered lunch and it came in a doubly large skillet. Then the wait staff came around pushing dinner roll carts, and carrying cooked pots of okra and black eyed peas. We were stuffed! And ... they still kept tossing us dinner rolls, LOL.
Just past the Illinois / Indiana border, before seeing a turned over semi that had lost it's load, we about lost our lives - TWICE! Due to Jeani's CDL experience, she took evasive meneuvers hitting the rumble strip and we survived. She saw the semi's trailer come into our lane 3 feet, I saw his tire churning, churning towards me and thought I'd be mincement. The other one was 3 cars playing tag and last one in line, red, didn't even see us, come racing into our lane! It was like we were invisible!
Needless to say, we were exhausted coming home. Dropped off Calvin in Lapel, and came here to Noblesville, to thank the Good Lord "and chill."
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