TRIP RECAP:
Saturday, after we finally warmed up (Sarah accidentally left the thermostat on cool, so it got down to 62 degrees in our cabin overnight - yikes!), we ate our Lambert's leftovers for breakfast (candied yams - YUM!), then headed to the Top of the Rock. We rented a golf cart and toured through some pretty scenery which included a cave and several awesome waterfalls and good photo ops. :) We drove into Branson to have lunch at Billy Bob's Dairyland, which had great reviews and was really good! (Everyone else got burgers; I got the Frito chili pie. #noregrets) We also all had a fried pie shake, which was a tasty new experience! We went back to the cabin to rest and change, then went to tour the chapel. It was a beautiful view, and when it cleared out, we sang Amazing Grace in harmony, followed by Going to the Chapel. :) We had appetizers and drinks at Buffalo Bar, and got pizza to go since we were still pretty full from lunch. We got in our PJs then played Nertz and Bull at the cabin, then took a break to eat pizza and watch Chuck! Chet accidentally turned the stove on, and the cardboard pizza box caught on fire... Sarah jumped into action and saved the pizza, and the whole thing was pretty funny! We went to bed at a more normal time that night, and slept really well!
Sunday, we got up and had brunch at the Worman House (LB skipped breakfast to take a run through the crazy Ozark hills, but we ate enough to count for five people being there). ;) Our waitress was entertaining and sarcastic, and the food was great once again (so much vacation food this year). We packed up, watched the Season 1 Finale of Chuck, took a few pictures on the back porch, then headed back to Tulsa (in time for JEM's Super Bowl Party!) The road trip home was fairly uneventful, but I always like road trips anyway. Overall, a really fun and relaxing trip!! I'm so thankful that Ruth let us use her cabin ...it was literally only $10 total for our two-night stay there, so a relaxing and very affordable trip. (It was also the first time I boarded the girlfranz at Woodland West, and it went well and will be a good option for me when I need it!)
QUOTABLES:
(mostly thanks to Laura's documentation)
"My lovely little lumps. Check it out!" ~Chet singing Black Eyed Peas upon seeing a bumper sticker that said 'Lumps' on the car in front of us
"I'll have one... no, make that two... okaaaay, I'll have four cookies n' cream shakes, please!!" ~Chet at the Chick-fil-A drive-thru!
"I would never unfollow Boo... please! Boo, Joyce Meyer, a lot of things I'm not against..." ~Me (on FB being weird and saying I've unfollowed Boo and many others for the past several months)
"I bet Joyce Meyer would love to know she's in the same category as a dog... How does a dog have more followers than Jesus!? Possibly." ~Sarah
"She's so spiritual. And gluten-free." ~Chettles (on Jenna)
"So what's the song about?" ~Chet, after listening to Colder Weather
"What!? You just sang every word!" ~Me
(This led to a long discussion about it and listening to it again to make sure we had the story straight.)
"I'm so tired of these teenagers taking a bunch of medicine because their life sucks. Whatever. Get over it!" ~Sarah
"There's our personality coming out! We're basically the same person." ~Chettles, trying to annoy Sarah
"Well, when we have our euthanasia party..." ~Sarah
"Saaaarah, God says no! It's in His timing." ~Chet
"Yeah, He's so selfish like that." ~Sarah
"It's funny that Sarah handles all kinds of human junk now." ~Chettles
"I need the macaroni girl to get over here before I vomit!" ~Laura (at Lambert's)
"That is on fleek!" ~Chet
"No. Never say that again." ~Sarah
"The bae thing is even dumber - it supposedly means 'before anything else.' So why isn't God always bae!?" ~Me
"This oil is for stupidity, and you need three bottles of it. It's one of the toughest things to cure." ~Chettles on essential oils (and people thinking they'll cure cancer)
"Do you want me to Google how to start a fire?" ~Sarah, mocking Chet Lee
"Here, get a picture of me being manly! And of Sarah being manly." ~Chet (starting the fire)
"I think I have retinal hemorrhage now." ~Sarah after seeing Chet's Papi's Brazilian trunks
"This could become a tradition. And if so, we need a name for our group. We could make Jeff jealous and call it Daddy's Ladies!" ~Chet Lee
"Or Papi's ladies!" ~Karli :)
"This from the guy who almost set us all on fire!" ~Sarah mocking Chet again - lol
"Oh, I feel cute about this!" ~Me, on drinking apple juice in a wine glass
"Maybe I'm drunk on apple juice." ~Laura
"And the sweet incense of friendship!" ~Sarah, in a weird accent, deliriously tired
"You smell like chicken!" ~Sarah when Laura got in bed to keep warm
"Oh, you're not dressed - Can I come look!?" ~Sarah (mixing up her words, needing to look for something in the room but not realizing LB was changing clothes) We laughed at that for a while!!
"Deer poop is balls." ~Sarah, correcting Chet on our golf cart tour
"I ain't a scared little girl no more!" ~Chet talking about Invincible being his shower song to get motivated for the day! lol
"That could work for you!" ~Me
"Oh, it actually really would, probably, maybe, doubtful." ~Sarah thinking out loud, making me laugh
"I'm keeping her as Rose Nylund in my mind, just to give her a sliver of dignity." ~Chettles on Betty White :)
"It's FREEEEEZING in here!" ~Sarah (the morning it was 62 degrees)
"Ugh, it's so bright!! I almost asked you to turn off the light, then I realized it was the sun." ~Me (after our 4 hours of sleep)
"The light was blazing through your corneas." ~Sarah, in a weird British accent
"Weird. I'm not really that cold." ~Me (after Chet came in annoyed about how cold it was)
"Your body heat is radiating from across the bed." ~Sarah lol
"What is with the half speed limits!?" ~Laura (there were signs for 12 and 1/2 speed limit)
"We're pretty cozy back here." ~Chet
"Snug as a bug in a rug." ~Laura
"Snug as a louse on Sarah's blouse!" ~Chet lol
"Maybe we should sing to it in the chipmunk voice to coax it out!" ~Me, as we waited hoping the chipmunk would come back out
"I just want a huuuula hoooop!" ~Me and LB :)
Didn't work. :(
"Oh look, that cow's pooping!" ~Chet on our road trip home
"We're getting a miniature pig!" ~Chettles
"We are not getting a pig." ~Karli
"Her name is Bacon Bits, and we'll call her Spiral!" ~Chet
"Aww, I want a cow!" -Chet, as we passed more of them
"I once had a pet chicken named Henrietta. She had a blind eye... We also got body lice from these chickens, which is what led to the incident that I like to call the chicken massacre... We had chicken for dinner for a long time, but I refused to eat it because I knew where it came from." ~Sarah sharing a sweet childhood memory - lol
"I'm gonna call him the male Whitney Houston... It's a bold statement!" ~Chet on Jordan Smith
"Oh, it almost ran down the glass. I would not have slept tonight." ~Our waitress at Worman House
"Well, I was about to go on break and style my hair!" ~Waitress when the table next to us made a request
"Flat affect works for her." ~Sarah
"So which out of those troublemakers ordered chocolate milk?" ~Waitress to me when they were all up getting food
"Umm, me." :)
TOP 10 PICTURES:
Leaning to fit into the self-timer shot! :)
Leaning to fit into the self-timer shot! :)
Our table at Lambert's (before it was COVERED in food)!
Apple juice in wine glasses by the fireplace - why not!?
Keeping warm, Willy Wonka family style! lol
Ready for our "hike" via golf cart! :)
Hilarious bridge pic! :)
Beautiful waterfall!!
Another great group selfie by Sarah outside the Chapel!
Playing Nertz just before the pizza fire incident!
Fun back porch balcony... the whole cabin was just cute!
Finally, a Flipagram slideshow with all the pics from our trip... to the song Colder Weather because it's one of my all-time favorites, and because we had a long and memorable discussion about the meaning of the song! :)
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