September 26-Visiting the Inyarts

We left the condo in Brandon today and headed towards home. It was arranged that we would visit the Inyart family on the way. The Inyarts go to our church (Reformation Christian Assembly) in St. Louis and every week they travel 3 hours one way to worship with us.
After lunch Mr. Inyart and his son, David, shot some rifles and handguns in their yard. They have two ponds that are full of frogs and so we began to “frog hunt.” We used a .22 rifle with a 9x scope. The frogs were easier to shoot than I had originally imagined. We’d walk around the edge of the pond and pick off frogs. By the time we’d walk all of the way around the lake, there’d be more frogs to take the place of their dead comrades. We went inside to eat dinner after we hunted about 12-18 frogs.
After dinner we tried to play some football and tag with David, but once it was dark and too hard to see we decided to make a movie. You can see the movie here.
We started on the way back home 20 minutes before nine and got home after midnight.

Swimming-Photos

Noah really enjoys swimming, so he was pretty happy when got to swim just about every day. One of the days, Benjamin swam 1 mile in less than half an hour.
Someone 15 or older had to be present while they were swimming so Mom and I played cards quite a bit.
In one of the pictures you can see Kate doing her school work. She had a test to take on the following Thursday and had to get some studying done.

Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks

The condo we were staying at was right on the beautiful Table Rock Lake and I got some neat pictures.

Fishing on Table Rock Lake-Photos

Benjamin fished just about every day we were in Branson and he’d start at 6am. The fishing was off and on. Because it was so easy to catch Sunfish Benjamin tried to be selective with what fish he caught. He did this by changing his lures and fishing technique.
Among his adventures that happened (which are inevitable when you spend hours on the lake) to Benjamin he almost caught a ferocious Muskie.
He also saw what appeared to be a hotel near the lake on fire! See the video below: Coming Soon!

Silver Dollar City Rides-Video

There are many more ride at Silver Dollar City, but I lost my SD card and so I only had footage of these four.
On the last ride of the video, I could barely get my knees under the safety bar.

Silver Dollar City-Photos

Noah’s a really enjoys swimming so he was pretty happy when got to swim just about every day. One of the days Benjamin swam 1 mile in less than half of an hour.
Someone 15 or older had to be present while they were swimming so Mom and I played cards quite a bit.
In one of the pictures below you can see Kate doing her school work. She had a test to take next Thursday and was barely in time to finish all of her homework.

Hangin' Out in Branson-Photos

When we planned our vacation down to Branson we were only going to have one day that would have something planned out of the nine days we’d be there. So we truly had a vacation of relaxation and refreshment.
However, at Westgate Resorts where we were staying there was a clubhouse with an indoors swimming and there were various activities planned through out the day. They also had a shuffle board, miniature golf, board games, ping pong, basketball and an outdoor swimming pool.
Benjamin fished just about every day and would start at about 6AM. Noah went swimming almost every day as well. I played Shuffle Board almost everyday. We had a fun time!

Branson Belle-Photos

Twice a day the “Branson Belle” would slowly pass by; once in the morning and once at night. The “Branson Belle” features an interesting show and a delicious lunch/dinner.
A few years ago,-no it was 8 years ago-we went on a lunch cruise on the beautiful boat.