May 22

What fun we had today! We rented a pontoon “party boat” on Table Rock Lake just a few minutes from Branson. We drove out to the gorgeous Table Top State Park Marina and in a few minutes we were on the lake! These lakes have fingers going off in all directions. We phoned ahead to a floating marina and ordered lunch to go. It took a little bit of time and a few phone calls to find it with all the fingers and bays but we didn’t care - we were on the lake with big smiles on our faces. It was a perfect day. Too bad we couldn’t take some of our boat loving friends and family with us. It was a 12 passenger boat. The seats were soooo cushy! We really had fun scooting across the water.

Norm having fun at the wheel!

Picnic on the Party Boat

This is the life!

The Rankin Brothers and Rankinettes put on a musical review of 50’s up to the 80’s Rock N-Roll that was really entertaining. It was voted Best Show the last 3 years and the Best Tribute Show for 2011. They all did great impersonations of our favorites: Elvis, Neil Diamond, Buddy Holly Righteous Brother, Everly Brothers, Beatles, John Denver, and on and on for two hours. They were really pretty amazing! It would be fun to see their Sunday Country Western show. The strip was all lit up with Neon lights. Branson was on and off our list of places to see but we were really glad we made a short stop here.