We had a horrid lightning and thunder rainstorm last night. It went on for hours. I even began to think that it might not be the smartest place to be in a camper under trees. There were loads of REAL CLOSE lightning strikes. But I've always loved good storms....and we got a doozie.
As you can see from this picture last night, there's no flat ground in this campground because we are perched on the side of a mountain (hence the name Branson View Campground :-) and we get a 180 view of Branson spread through the valley below.
Last night we went to church in Branson. It's a small parish about the same number of families as our parish at home. However, they get so many toursists, that 1/2 of the funding for this new church came from the tourists. It's big and very beautiful. AND as our luck would have it, we we were there for the Spanish Mass. Now I know how folks who come to our Catholic Church
feel when they have no clue what's going on. Of course we knew what was going on, but it was mostly in Spanish. The priest gave the sermon both in English and Spanish interspersed. It sounded like he was just learning Spanish, and when he came on words he knew, he interjected them in Spanish.
Then as luck would have it for us, it was also First Communion for all the little Spanish speaking community. The little boys were so very dressed up....much more than now days at our church up north. They looked so very cute.Well, that's enough for now. We're going to go and check out Branson this morning and then figure out what we want to do first, before it rains this afternoon.
So, until we connect again....
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