1/2 Way Through Vacation!

Good morning from my awesome deck of the best cabin in Branson!!! I am sitting here, having my diet coke and pretzels listening to the birds chirp. The sun is out and it's going to be an awesome day!!!! Ohhhh and in case you were wondering, I ended up with the villa but it's HUGE and there is nobody in the studio villa connected to us so we have it all to ourselves!! The cabins were a lot smaller so even though I was mad at first, I'm glad we got this one.

I don't have a lot of time to blog but trying to get the kids up this morning isn't going so fast!

Here's a quick run down of the fun we've had!

Monday - Awesome Go Cart tracks, Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum, swimming at the resorts
Tuesday - Silver Dollar City, White Water, Go Carts again, Hollywood Wax Museum

I'm sure I'm missing something so I'll have to redo my list later. Today will be SDC and White Water for sure again. Both places are awesome!!!

I haven't down loaded any of the pictures from my camera so here are just a couple from my cell phone.

Here's a shot of the go cart track, there are 4-5 different tracks throughout Branson.

Kids swimming in the indoor pool at the resort. There are two outdoor pools and one indoor pool. There is a sand volleyball court, a basketball court, a shuffleboard court, a really nice walking trail. It's a great place!

Here are a couple of the slides at White Water. Kyler and I did the steep one the very first thing yesterday. I think he went on it 20 times! Can you say major wedgie???

Ok ok ok enough of the computer time, I must wake the kiddos and get our butts going for the day!!!

Finally...vacation time :)

In 10 short hours we will be on the road, yay!! I am so needing this time away! Let's just hope the kids don't fight the entire flippin time like they have for the past few hours tonight!!

Oh an update on the cabin, I got an email back and it says I have the one bedroom cabin so I have printed out everything I have and will gladly present it to the front desk tomorrow! Wish me luck...if they say I don't have the cabin I might just go off a tad after all!!!

I'll have my laptop so I may or may not blog along the way, it's a nice way to end the day after the kids have gone to bed.

Hope everyone has a fantastic week!!

Why?????

Why is it I get an email yesterday from the resort where we are staying starting on MONDAY saying that they are overbooked and I have been moved from a one bedroom cabin to a one bedroom villa??? I didn't booked a one bedroom villa when I made my reservation over two weeks ago so again...WHY?????

Ughhhh I was SO not happy so I called the number on the email and the reservationist was so rude and was basically telling me there was nothing I could do, couldn't answer WHY my reservation got bumped or anything other than sorry, they were overbooked blah blah blah...I told her to keep it and if I could find a BETTER place I would cancel it.

I looked and looked and looked and of course now can't find anything within the same awesome price range I had gotten with this place so I was just about to bite the bullet and spend another lump of cash to upgrade to a two bedroom cabin but when I called back to do that, the reservationist said my reservation shows for a one bedroom cabin...what the heck?? LOL So I had to laugh a bit and think to myself maybe my complaining before worked??

So when I got off the phone I emailed the resort asking once again for confirmation of my one bedroom cabin reservation. I have yet to receive anything. I think I will call daily just to confirm it...hehe...I am stressing over this! I specifically booked a cabin because we love having our own little place to stay and not be in a hotel type atmosphere. Not that there is anything wrong with that but we are on vacation, we want to splurge a little bit right??? If we get there and we have a villa...yea I'll say a few words but I'm not going to be one of those insane travelers that goes off on the poor front desk person that has no control over it, I will just let it be known that I am not too happy that my reservation made over two weeks ago didn't really matter I guess. Isn't that the point of a reservation??? You RESERVE something so that nobody else can have it??? UGHH!!

Mother Nature

I have been complaining of the heat right? Well I was really dreading Kyler's rescheduled double header last night because it has just been so dang hot out.

As we were driving to the games, which was about 25 minutes away, I noticed it was getting really dark to the south of us. Hmm...didn't know there was going to be rain. Miranda and I dropped Kyler off at the field then went to grab drinks and snacks. As we got to the store, it started downpouring! Oops! I called Kyler and they were all in the dug out luckily.

When we got back to the field it has quit and the sky looked amazing!! Thankfully I had my camera in my purse so I snapped a couple of the clouds and then realized there was a rainbow too!

So the game stared a few minutes late and we watched the darkness go from the south...to the east...to the north then it started just creeping in closer.

The decided to call the game in about the 5th inning of the first game (great another make up game!!). I took a couple more pictures right before we left.

It rained a little bit on the way home, nothing like what I was anticipating it to be like but check out the storm cloud line that we drove with the whole way. It was bright and sunny under that dark cloud line!!


Crazy Kansas weather! It's nice and hot again today! Go figure!!!

Feeling Hot Hot Hot

Lordy, it is SO flippin hot here!! I mean nasty hot!

Kyler had a game last night from 6-8 (another win!!), I had sweat just running down my back the entire time. Then when I got home I figured since I was already nasty I would go ahead and mow. So even at 8:30-9:30 at night, I was literally drenched with sweat like I had walked through a sprinkler!!

Right now the temperature is 96 but it feels like 106. Seriously. Ugh! Both kids are off enjoying the water. Miranda is at the pool and Kyler is at the lake. I am going to head to the pool as soon as I am done with work today. The pool is open till 8:00 and even the short time I will be able to enjoy it will be SO worth it!!!

What a Fantastic Weekend!!

This was probably the funnest weekend I have had in such a long time!!

Friday night I went and met some friends from high school. One of my friend's father had passed away so they had a military funeral at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas for him Friday morning. Paul and his wife Stacey came down from Iowa. Amy and her husband Brett came down from Nebraska. I wasn't able to go to the funeral but met up with everyone that evening. Here is a picture of Brett, Amy, Jill and I. It was a lot of fun catching up with everyone.


Saturday was a day of baseball. Kyler had a tournament out of town, about an hour away. The whole way there it was raining like crazy but it had let up by the time I got there. Our first game was to be at 12:30 but the games were running behind so we actually didn't get started until 1:15. We won the first game 3-2, Kyler had a killer game! 2 hits, 4 stolen bases, scored 1 run and had an awesome catch!!!

The next game was to be at 3:30 but of course didn't get started until probably 4:45. We won the second game 4-2!! So now we would be playing in the championship game!! The bad news was...there was still 2 games to be played before the championship game...ugh! There was 3 teams from the town we were in and 3 teams from our town in the tournament. Two of our teams ending up playing in the championship haha!!

The game for 5th/6th place finally got started and ended fairly quickly it seemed so then I was watching the game for 3rd/4th place because I wanted to see our town's team play. It was about 9pm and all of a sudden the stadium lights went off. It was just dark enough you could see but couldn't play. It took about 20 minutes for them to finally come back on so then they started playing again. Then about an hour later...boom the lights went off again and it was pitch black! Miranda was no where to be found, she was off playing with friends but all of a sudden I heard 'Trish??' haha, she was smart enough to call my name and not 'Mom?'! Finally the two coaches decided to reschedule the championship until Sunday back in our town because there was no way of knowing if the lights were coming back on or not! At this point it was close to 10:30pm and our game hadn't even started!!! I didn't get home until close til midnight...zzzzz

Sunday was a lazy day. I called my Dad to tell him Happy Father's Day, did some cleaning and laundry. Then it was time to head to the championship game at 5pm. It was SO hot out!! I took my huge golf umbrella to try to make some shade. It helped but I was still so sweaty! Yuk!! It was a really good game but yes...we ended up winning 8-3!!! Kyler's team is still undefeated! He was so excited too! We've got a game tonight and a double header Wednesday night.

I just hope this week goes by fast because we leave for vacation next Monday!!!!