Pictures from home

Messy room from packing...check

More organized pile of atlases and itineraries...check

Smiling before 8am...check. Ridder women must be leaving on a trip!

A picture of the zipline we rode on...fun fun!

You can see Table Rock Lake in the distance.

Big checkers game to play to calm your nerves while waiting for the zipline

Mom geeked out over this old washer. Her aunt had one out on one of the family farms when she was growing up.

Fountains!

Mom and I ate at an antique shop/tea room, and on the table we ate at there was a glass covering over old pictures and envelopes, and this one was addressed to an old radio station in Wichita, dating back to 1934.  Even in Branson you can't get away from home!

More of the fountains...you can see how high they could shoot up water!

Add in some flames...

Coming home we decided to stop to see Big Brutus (neither of us had seen it before).

When you aren't even as tall as the wheels, you know it's a big machine...

Info about the bucket.

Standing in the shovel!

The cables were bigger than my hand could hold.

My Grandma Jo was working on some cross-stitch patterns that she didn't finish before she passed away.  My mom has finished up the designs, and now we're turning them into hot pads.

Using a cup to trace the rounded edges.

Prior to being cut...

Nearly finished product.  We actually had to rip out the edging after I took this picture, the sewing machine didn't get it completely sewed onto the main part.

Our hot pad models that we kept referring back to...

Three of the four hot pads

Pretty pretty!

And, because the title of the post reminded me of this song, I'm putting a bonus song for you to enjoy...Letters From Home :-)