Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I have some fun travels to catch you all up on and we’re going to rewind the clock back to the week before Christmas. Aaron and I spent a long weekend in Branson, Missouri with his family.
I’m pretty sure Branson is America’s Christmas capitol as the whole town is decked out for the holiday. Every hotel, shop and restaurant screams MERRY CHRISTMAS!
We drive in a day early and spent a little time exploring, but really ended up turning in early as we knew it was going to be a busy weekend. We picked up the most “healthy” dinner imaginable of Chick-Fil-A nuggets and a New York style cheese pizza from a local eatery. What can I say? It was vacation.
We ate our dinner in our hotel room and turned in early.
His family wasn’t coming into town h til later the next day so we took advantage of the first half of the day by exploring around Branson. We first had breakfast at our hotel, Savannah House. It looked about the same every Mekong. Biscuits + gravy, eggs, potatoes, monkey bread and orange juice. We love this hotel and their free breakfast!
We booked it over to a cute shopping center that has a Thomas Kinkade gallery and year-round Christmas store. we did some exploring and shopping before checking out the Bass Pro Shop in the downtown area.
We had lunch at a 50s diner complete with jukeboxes and arcade games. We have eaten here on both of our trips to Branson and have yet to be disappointed. I overheard another family talking about how they had eaten there every day of their vacation so far. Cakes’n’Cream diner has pretty much any diner food you could ask for, including their famous funnel cakes!
We spent the rest of the vacation soaking up family time at Silver Dollar City. Even if you don’t like rollercoasters, I still recommend visiting this theme park! It is rated America’s #1 Christmas attraction with the millions of lights displayed throughout the park.
And they even have a real cave that you can explore for free with your park admission. The guided tour lasts a little over an hour with lots of walking and stairs, but I really enjoyed it!
I’ll be sharing all my Branson travel recommendations on the blog tomorrow so stay tuned!
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