Big Music; Small Town Atmosphere

After the "nothing can top this" performance with Yakoff Schmirnoff on Wednesday morning, we decided to just knock around Branson a bit, had a wonderful lunch salad at Ruby Tuesday, did a bit of shopping in a craft mall, did some wine tasting :-) and then saw the Branson Mall. This was the same place we watched the ten little kds adopted from Guatamala singing last Sunday. There are free shows there all day. There was a "cowboy" outside singing and advertising the acts....Elvis was there at 4 p.m. Thought this might be a fun thing to watch. We had front row seats at a table beside the cat walk.....and here was Elvis. He actually looked a bit like Elvis, but wasn't an impersonator....just singing his songs and giving a little history of Elvis mixed in. Felt sorry for him up there in those leathers....he was dripping wet.

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We spent a couple of hours listening to him. He was very good. Of course nobody actually beats Elvis' voice. There were tip vases on the table. This was how they get paid. There was a gal on the other side of the cat walk who was hooting and hollering like a teen-ager did 40 yrs ago was performing. ...and she was NO 16 yr. old believe me.....

This was the singer who was finishing up as we got there for Elvis' performance. He was a very good Christian singer. Really enjoyable.

This little town is very Christian and patriotic. Every show honors vets in some way. This guy really professed Christ. We have even saw one guitar holding dude standing on the corner reading the Bible really loud.

On Thursday we head up to Springfield, MO to the biggest grandaddy Bass Pro Shop of them all. Too bad we don't have Charlie here to explore all the boats.

So until we're on the road and "connect" again....