Monday March 31, 1997 - Still in Branson
It was nice
to have a rest day and just take our time to have a look around. I did a bit of
office work in the morning and then we went downtown to have a look around.
There was a fascinated store in the main
street in the Old Town
– Dick’s Oldtime 5 & 10.
What a shop!
We could have spent days there, especially if we had room in our luggage. It
really had everything from a needle to and anchor – and everything else in
between. We saw goods we hadn’t seen for years including some great Keil Kraft
balsa wood aeroplanes, which brought back some happy memories.
We went for
a drive today, along the road we had taken the night before and that
highlighted the effect of all the development. We were standing high above the
river and on the one bank it was virtually virgin bush – a high bluff and
forests with the redbuds just blooming: on the other bank, all the bush had
been stripped – hotels, condominiums, and golf courses had been spread out in
all their ghastliness. The poor old Shepherd must be spinning in his grave.
We had a
bite to eat in one of the old time diners which was good tucker and very
reasonable. Watching the locals eat was also interesting – although I suppose
our style was as curious to them as theirs was to us! In the evening we ate out
at an Italian restaurant and had a nice bottle of Lambrusco. The sunset was
terrific with an incredible shade of pink, the likes of which I cannot recall
seeing before, which then changed and ended up as green. The food was excellent
although mine was a little on the hot side – I had asked them to spice my Penne
Fra Diavolo with a bit of chilli and they took my request literally.
We then went
on to the theatre to Rab;s second choice entitled Jukebox Jamboree which was a
bit disappointing, especially compared to the show the previous evening. The
concept was a good one – tracing the history of the jukebox through the hit
songs through the years, but it didn’t come off too well. costumes and cast
didn’t fit each other and at least two seem to have had a good break which
resulted in their putting on a bit of weight!
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