Sept. 3: Silver Dollar City & The Lake

Silver Dollar City, on Labor Day, was all we remembered it to be. For the boys, it was their first time there. We tried to show them the crafters too so they could see some history but not all of them were working. Mostly it was all about the rides AND mostly the water rides (some food was involved too). The rides I rode are the ones not shown - no one to take a photo. I did get wet but not like these four. The common denominator in all of these pictures is Larry. We finally had someone with us that would ride all the rides he would ride. We were there a couple of years ago with our youngest, Trina, and she also rode all those wild rides - some of them several times.

We even went to the kiddie rides and they rode the Tea Cups which as you can tell, Larry and Nathen really enjoyed. This was the last day for the toboggen ride so they rode it 3 times. Larry pooped out after the second time because there was no line. You just climbed the stairs straight up to the top with no waiting and sledded down. The other three boys went a 3rd time.

We got home around 8ish and were in bed by 9:30. We were all tired and did we ever sleep good.



Tuesday was our day on the lake. The boys had a great time tubing. Austin even learned how to jump from one to the other in full motion. As you can see by the sky, Gustav was not too far away. It started raining about 4:00pm and kept up all that night all the next day and up until about midnight last night. About 30 hours of rain and a two foot gain in water level on the lake. Our friends here said they dumped 6 1/2 inches out of their rain gage from the past two days. Yesterday was spent partially at the laundry mat drying out clothes from Silver Dollar City and time spent in the rain.

Rebecca and family left today around noon and now we're here in an empty camp ground with wet wood. However, charcoal starter works wonders on wet wood. We managed to work up a small fire this evening before coming in to hear John McCain's acceptance speech. We have another week here and then one last stop at the trailer manufacturer in Chanute before heading into Wichita.