Branson

Isaiah has been working 7 days a week for the last few months, so we really haven't done any family outings, but this last weekend his was able to take some time off. We decided to take the kids to Branson and spend the night.

We drove down Saturday morning. Isaiah and Benjamin went to see Avatar at the Imax, while I took the rest of the kids to the Butterfly palace. The Palace is a indoor garden full of live butterflies. The kids loved it. They also had a mirror maze. We did that about 5 times. Amita was really good at finding her way, but did get over confident and ran straight into a mirror.

We had rented a room at a hotel that had an indoor water park. The rest of the evening we spent in the park having fun. Our favorite part was floating the lazy river. I had one tube with Carter and Amita on it, while Isaiah had Melody. Benjamin loved just floating around by himself. Benjamin discovered he was tall enough the ride the water slides and hardly did anything else after that.

I would love to say we had a great nights sleep, but it was one of the worst nights in history. Melody could not get into a deep sleep, so every 10 minutes she was waking up crying. Even when she would finally doze off she would be tossing and turning. I think we finally got to sleep at about five, but by five thirty the boys were up and ready to go get some breakfast.

It was really nice to take the kids on a little get away and we had lots of fun. Benjamin says Avatar is the best movie ever.