Birthday Month

This month is birthday month for our house! Colin was born on the 11th, Janae the 15th, and Dacia the 17th---not all in one year of course! :-) We used to celebrate their birthdays separately but they're getting older and the last couple of years we just had something on one day. Janae turned 21 this year and she wanted to do something special to celebrate. We decided to go to Branson and go for a dinner cruise on the Showboat Branson Belle. I fixed 45 encharitos and we took them to Colin and Faith's house Thurs. night--which was actually Dacia's birthday. We got there later than what I wanted to but we went ahead and ate them for our supper. I fixed some Rotel cheese dip too that some like to put on top of the encharitos. Then Fri. after we all finally got around we headed to Branson and did some shopping before time to go to the boat. We left around 6:30 to go to the boat because they start loading at 7:00. Someone told us where to go so we got there and some of the others went ahead while I took Bouncer to the bathroom etc. As we were on our way up there we met the others coming back and they told us we were in the wrong

place. :-) I called Diane and she gave me the address where they were at. Brad was talking to someone else and they gave him a different address. Needless to say we were in confusion for awhile but decided to use the address Diane gave us as she got it from the company and it took her there. We put the address in the GPS and then it wanted us to turn where there was no

road. The boat left at 8:00 so we are trying to hurry to get there. We went up a ways and turned around and finally got on the right road (GPS needs to be updated or something). It seemed like it was taking us out in the boonies and I was wondering if we were going right but we finally arrived and had like maybe 15 min. before the boat was to leave! Whew! We met up with Faith's family and Di and Val and got to board before it left! I had wanted to get there while it was still light to get some pics. but by the time we got there it was pretty dark.

You could hardly tell the boat was moving. They served us a salad and some bread and then we had some roast, a stuffed chicken breast or something, vegetables, mashed potatoes and some kind of ice cream something for dessert. After supper they had an intermission and we had some time to explore the boat and go out on the decks. They had a ventriloquist that made his dogs "talk". They wouldn't let you take pics or video that part. The last part I laughed so hard. I haven't laughed that hard in a while. He had a woman and a man come up out of the audience and every time he squeezed their neck they were supposed to open their mouth and he did his ventriloquism. We got out late and then went to good ol' McDonald's and some of us got something to eat and we set outside and visited. It was good to be with Colin and Faith. Don't get to see them a whole lot.

The next day was sooooo rainy. We were going to get an old time photo taken but they charged per person and were too expensive so we finally ended up and played some putt putt at a place that had it indoors. Then it was Taco Bell and HOME!