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Welp, it’s hard to believe but Willamae’s been loading up the bus and headin’ to Branson, Miz-er-ri for 30 years! (I ain’t even had that many birthdays!) It just seems fittin’ that we celebrate ever step of the way! HO! HO! HO! We’ve never done the same Christmas trip twice and we ain’t gonna start now! Yer ol’ pal Willamae has searched high and low and we got ourselves a dandy trip! Hot Spit! Brang a Christmas gift for the swappin’ party. We like gifts that you can eat. Wrap it up, but don’t go spendin’ more than 3 bucks on it. Put yer name of who it is from on the outside of the package.
December 4, 2024
9:03 am Yer D-lux motorcoach leaves the Grove Senior Center on East O’Daniel Parkway right there next to the Fire Station. Git there in plenty of time to park your hoopty on the east end of the parkin’ lot. We are jist gonna be gone one night, so plan on totin’ yer own suitcase. Now this here’s the chance to put on the dog and wear yer Christmas finery! Yep, pull them Christmasy sweaters and shirts outta the mothballs and put ‘em on! There’s gonna be a prize fer:
After we git all loaded up, we will head towards the Ozarks. We better eat! We are gonna whip into Flat Creek over in Republic…this joint puts on the feedbag! There’s too much to pick from… catfish, fried chicken, BBQ so it will be pay fer yer own.
2:00 pm Woo Hoo! We’re gonna go over there to Clay Cooper’s theater and see Dean Z - The Ultimate Elvis! This here feller has won more awards than you kin shake a stick at fer puttin’ on such a fine show singin’ an carryin’ on like ol Elvis hisself! ‘Spect to hear big hits and Christmas music. He’s got singers and a big ol band behind him! Ever body in Branson is talkin’ ‘bout Dean Z!
7:00 pm Here’s something brand new! We are go share a Christmas Dinner with the characters from the Shepherd of the Hills at the Shepherds Christmas Carol Dinner Show. We will have a sit-down full course turkey & ham dinner with pumpkin dessert as we watch this live show. The story unfolds with Ollie Stewart, years after the heartbreak of losing his sweetheart, Sammy Lane, to his old friend, Young Matt Matthews. Mandy Ford, Uncle Ike, and the rest of the neighborhood attempt to include Ollie in their Branson Christmas festivities.
There will be laughs and good feelin’s. (If ya ain’t read The Shepherd of the Hills book by Harold Bell Wright, it’s a good un!) After the Dinner Show we will load up in their wagons and wind our way through the 160-acre Shepherd of the Hills Homestead on their Trail of Lights. They been doin’ this fer as long as we been goin’ to Branson (30 YEARS!) and they jist keep addin’ lights. Welp, that’s enuff fer one day. We will tuck in fer the night at The LaQuinta Inn over there on Shepherd of the Hills Expressway (417) 312-9824.
December 5, 2024
Shake a leg and git around and eat breakfast the hotel before we check out and go over to the Grand Country Music Hall fer Show #3.
10:00 am A all new Down Home Country Show. They have stirred thangs up over there and we are gonna laugh and sing and carry on like we ought to! They have got Billy Yates hired on and he ain’t no second fiddle. His songs have been recorded by ever body like George Strait, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans, Rhonda Vincent, The Oak Ridge Boys, Gene Watson, and more. Billy co-wrote the George Jones classics, “I Don’t Need Your Rockin’ Chair” Billy has been on the Grand Ole Opry over 50 times. And that ain’t all. The “Down Home Country Show” also features Entertainer of the Year, Jamie Haage, and Comedian of the Year, Jarrett Dougherty. The fine cast of singers and pickers is real country music.
12:15 pm Time to eat! We have eat here before and like how we kin jist step next door to the Grand Country Buffet and get up to the trough and pig out!
2:00 pm We will slip on over to the Little Opry Theatre fer The Peterson’s Show. A family show made up of mom and dad and 4 eat up with talent big kids and an extra. They have played and sang their “American Roots Music” pert near all over the world and now they are in the Ozarks!
Whew! I reckon we will be wore down smooth and bubblin’ with Christmasy spirit as we head towards the house. We will see iffen we need a quick bite on the way home and plan on hittin’ Groovy Grove ‘bout 8:00 pm or so.