Well, Susan outdid herself today. She planned a HUGE day in Branson for the girls upcoming birthdays. We kept it all a big surprise. The first stop was the new Titanic Museum. This was really something else. All the staff dress in costume, and there were several live dogs - just like on the real ship - musing about. Grace petted both of them.
Then we headed up the road just West of town to Table Rock Dam. This was a flood control project on the White River in the 1950's. A series of dams makes Table Rock, Taneycomo, and Bull Shoals Lakes (the last of which is where Aasby's have their camp). The damn is very impressive. a mile from end-to-end, much of it earthen dam, and then this concrete monolyth and power station.
Below the dam is a fish hatchery.... We toured this and it was a lot of fun. They hatch, and grow a MILLION rainbow trout each year to be released for sport fishing. The MO DEC permits at $7/day pay for most of the operation. These are NOT indigineous to MO, but love the 46F water that comes frm the bottom of the lake. They do not live in Tablerock Lake above the dam - but below in Taneycomo. We used to come here on fishing vacaions when I was a kid.
A beautiful view of Lake Taneycomo...... COLD water.
Some of the old retired spawn fish - 8 years old so. Grandma's and just a FEW Grandpas.
Theese are the old dirt trench hatchery areas. I CLEARLY remember falling in one of these full of 8" trout when I was about 6 years old. A horrifying experience.
Ingrid feeding a bunch of the smaller trout.
Then we got on the Branson Belle Showboat. We boarded around 4pm - had dinner in the THEATER, and watched a very entertaining variety show. I forgot to take a picture of the BOAT in all our excitement. Here is a link that shows all about it.
http://www.showboatbransonbelle.com/photo-video-gallery/
In between dinner and the show, we went out on the deck and enjoyed cooler air and beautiful views on a beautiful day.....
Here we are in the boat-theater......
And, another HUGE surprise. Sarah came up from Fayetteville, AK to join in on the fun at the Branson Belle.
The show even included Todd Oliver's ventriliquist act with two talking dogs. I don't think I have ever seen Grace laugh SO HARD!
Here are Sarah, Ingrid, Grace and Molly. How did Susan and I spawn such a beautiful brood!!!!
We stopped at thhe neighbors on the way home to visit their baby minature mules... There are two babies here and he Mama of the gray one is on the right. They are darling..
Then we headed up the road just West of town to Table Rock Dam. This was a flood control project on the White River in the 1950's. A series of dams makes Table Rock, Taneycomo, and Bull Shoals Lakes (the last of which is where Aasby's have their camp). The damn is very impressive. a mile from end-to-end, much of it earthen dam, and then this concrete monolyth and power station.
Below the dam is a fish hatchery.... We toured this and it was a lot of fun. They hatch, and grow a MILLION rainbow trout each year to be released for sport fishing. The MO DEC permits at $7/day pay for most of the operation. These are NOT indigineous to MO, but love the 46F water that comes frm the bottom of the lake. They do not live in Tablerock Lake above the dam - but below in Taneycomo. We used to come here on fishing vacaions when I was a kid.
A beautiful view of Lake Taneycomo...... COLD water.
Some of the old retired spawn fish - 8 years old so. Grandma's and just a FEW Grandpas. 
Theese are the old dirt trench hatchery areas. I CLEARLY remember falling in one of these full of 8" trout when I was about 6 years old. A horrifying experience.
Ingrid feeding a bunch of the smaller trout.
Then we got on the Branson Belle Showboat. We boarded around 4pm - had dinner in the THEATER, and watched a very entertaining variety show. I forgot to take a picture of the BOAT in all our excitement. Here is a link that shows all about it. http://www.showboatbransonbelle.com/photo-video-gallery/
In between dinner and the show, we went out on the deck and enjoyed cooler air and beautiful views on a beautiful day..... 
Here we are in the boat-theater......
And, another HUGE surprise. Sarah came up from Fayetteville, AK to join in on the fun at the Branson Belle.
The show even included Todd Oliver's ventriliquist act with two talking dogs. I don't think I have ever seen Grace laugh SO HARD!
Here are Sarah, Ingrid, Grace and Molly. How did Susan and I spawn such a beautiful brood!!!!
We stopped at thhe neighbors on the way home to visit their baby minature mules... There are two babies here and he Mama of the gray one is on the right. They are darling..
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