The Silver Dollar City Experience

I am sorry to disappoint anyone who is reading this right now but this time I figured I would give this blog thing a try. Bare with me this may not be nearly as exciting as Natalie's blog post. Last weekend Natalie and I headed down to Silver Dollar City in Branson. It turned out the drive seemed like forever long. Maybe it had something to do with leaving at nine thirty at night. Well, after the 3 and a half hour drive and many Presley Jubilee billboards we made it to Branson. Once we reached Branson, we headed to Grandma Weekes condos where Kayley and Cora were wide a wake and as hyper as ever. Nick and Colton were there too, of course.

The next day we headed to Silver Dollar City which some people call "steal your dollar city." This was Natalie's first experience of Silver Dollar City. Anyone who knows Natalie probably knows she is not a very big fan of roller coasters, and Silver Dollar City has a lot to choose from. I was bound to get her to ride at least one roller coaster. We first headed to the Chinese Acrobats figuring we could go an get it out of the way. We made it to the building and the line was pretty short. So we were all excited figuring we timed it just right. Turns out they already let as many people as they could get in to the building. The people we were waiting in line with were people wanting to cram into the building. So we got all excited for nothing.

It just so happened that the exit for the show started right at the line forming for the roller coaster "Powder Keg". Natalie instantly started to get nervous. After much coaxing, Colton and I were able to talk her into riding it. The closer we made it to the actual ride the more nervous she was. She was so cute. She finally built up enough courage to ride Powder Keg. Anyone who has been on this ride knows at the beginning of the ride they send you off going zero to fifty in like five seconds. We made it to the top hill and as we started to go down and Natalie screamed " I already don't like this ride". She made it through the ride saying it's a good thing I don't have a heart condition or I probably would have died. Needless to say, we couldn't talk her into riding another ride. I guess if you count riding the hopping frogs with Kayley then she did ride another ride. Later on we watched Kayley and Cora ride all the little kid rides.

Our Silver dollar city trip was a lot of fun and we already planned the next trip. So Natalie might have to ride at least one more roller coaster. In her defense, she probably rode the scariest roller coaster they had. But we will have to get her to ride the more fun one when we go back.