Continued Story..

 So....here is the rest of the story for this one adventure my friends and I were on last Saturday evening...

I left you all wondering what could have happened next.  Here is a little extra information.   We had two other ladies joining us on this trip...  They drove their own car and then they caught up with us after we got to Branson. Martha is 84  and Donna is 85 years old.  

We finally got our Hot chocolate and was walking  up to catch the tram....Martha realized she had lost her ticket to get on the tram.  After much searching, the ticket could not be found.  She had to make her way back to the ticket office to see what could be done.  Thankfully, they gave her a new ticket to ride the tram.

Woo hoo....we are all in line to get on the tram, WHEN....I realized I did not have my ticket.  What?  I just had it...what could have happened to it. 

 

I head back down to the ticket office, but decided that I would first  look around the fire pit, the place where we had all been standing.  Sure enough, my ticket was right where I was hoping it might be.  I pick it up and hurry back up to the tram line.  

I'm thinking...for some reason, we are really struggling here trying to ride this tram to see the lights.  What on earth was going on?  

I honestly think the Devil was working hard to break us. Earlier that day, we had been singing praises to the Lord and saying how thankful we were for all of HIS goodness.  👐

We ended up having to wait another 20 minutes for the next tram to come by.  Finally...we make our way onto the tram!! Woo hoo...we were as happy as a two year old stepping into a water puddle.  

The lights were stunning.  So many lights of all colors.  The ride was so magical even though the wind was blowing so hard and it was very, very cold.  No complaining though...We all had worked so hard just to get on that tram and we all were determined to make the best out of this sweet evening.  The ride lasted 30 minutes!!  We worked VERY HARD  for a 30 minute ride.  But By-Golley we were not going to be defeated. 

On our way back to the hotel, we all decided that we were very thirsty.. Hmmmm, McDonalds was right there, so we pulled into the drive through.  Just when we thought the night couldn't possibly throw any more curve balls, this happened........We ordered 2 diet cokes, 1 regular coke and 1 Dr. Pepper.  We paid at the first window and as we proceeded to the next window, the guy at the pay window made this ugly face at us along with a gesture.  I wanted to say.. "hey you creepy kid..do you have any idea who you are dealing with? 6 crazy ladies!"  When we get up to the window, a girl hands us 1 diet coke, 2 regular cokes and 1 Dr. Pepper.  We proceed to tell her that this was not the correct order.  She WOULD NOT change the extra regular coke out for a diet coke, so we asked to speak to the manager.  

This young guy with bleached blonde hair came to the window.  When we requested that the drinks be changed, he said NO.  That the order showed what they gave us was what we ordered.   There was no use in trying to argue with him ..... he was not going to change the order.

At this point we realized that the universe wasn't just sprinkling chaos on us, it was backing up the whole dump truck.  Every little thing that could go wrong seemed to raise it's hand and say "Pick me next!" 

 Honestly, I think we could have sold a few tickets ourselves that evening.  People could have followed us around and they could have seen the BEST comedy show in town.  

Today is Thankful Thursday, and I am truly thankful for this trip and for my dear friends.  I can't wait for next years trip, along with all the chaos that we find ourselves getting into.  

Blessings,

Shug.