Beautiful, Beautiful Branson

The day started just beautifully....clear blue sky, had to be in the 70's. Chris fixed breakfast (because he's more interested in breakfast than I am) and we left the Branson View Campground. We found the Radison Hotel (will take some pics today and put on tomorrow), checked in and found our room on the 5th floor, with view overlooking Branson, and having wonderful "Sleep Number" beds....what we have at home :-) We went to a Variety Jamboree and really enjoyed the comedy, dancing and music.

The hours spent there were definitely good for our funny bones. Then we spent some time deciding what other shows we wanted to go see.....Like the Oak Ridge Boys, and Yakov Smirnoff.

We browsed through a craft mall. Was enjoyable; different crafts than we see up north. Didn't see anything I couldn't live without. Then off to purchase tickets for the shows we already know we want to see.

By that time we found that they had a restaurant called the Shogun Japanese Restaurant, Bar, whatever the last word is.....

It's where they stir fry the food right at your table.

And this was our very skilled chef. He was totally awesome. That spatula (looked like a pizza server) and long fork FLEW in his hands very skillfully....good thing for US!

As you can see....I couldn't stop the movement of his hands....

There was another family at our table....looked at the little ones and said "are they 3 & 5 yrs old?" Yup...hit it right on the head...why? I'll never tell....

Anyway, when the chef LIT the hot griddle and flames leaped up, the 3 yr. old said "Where's my goggles!"

Later on in his presentation of his art, he stacked these slices of onion, poured them full of ??? (kerosene???) and lit it! Not as big a fire as the first time....but really cool. He hung my chicken over it and called it "chicken BBQ" (which it was not) And then when it was just smoking, he tapped his spatula on the griddle and pushed it around like a choo, choo train, sounded just like it, too. The kiddies loved it....so did me.

I had chicken tereyaki and Chris had some kind of shrimp. The fryed rice and stir fryed vegetables were also awesome. What a dinner. What super entertainment! It was too late to catch an evening show by that time, so we came back to the hotel and chilled in the hot tub. (rough life, but somebody has to do it) We met a guy who grew up in Hudson, MI, knew lots of folks in Onsted, MI....had fun remeniscing with him. Who would-a-thunk we'd run into somebody from there way down here in the middle of the Ozarks.

So, until we connect again.....