Monday in Branson brought us to a day to prep for several days of travel in a row. We scheduled a pick up order for groceries at Walmart – that is one of our favorite things to do when traveling. In order to not have to do the shopping ourselves – therefore getting to spend more time doing the fun things we want to do – we’ve used curbside pickups whenever we can. It’s been a real treat to get online – set up the order and then just pick it up at the designated time.
We decided to have lunch at Paula Deen’s restaurant. As many know we are cooking show fanatics. We call it our “food porn” – essentially binging food shows. I remember years ago watching Paula Deen on the food network – she was one of my favorites at the time so getting to go to her restaurant was on my Branson bucket list. If you’ve never been they serve the meal family style – we ordered two of the main dishes fried chicken and chicken and dumplings – then we ordered 4 sides – green beans (with beef and potatoes), mac and cheese, candied yams, and broccoli casserole. They don’t allow doggy bags and the initial portions aren’t huge but they will continue to bring food out as you request. We ended up ordering a second helping of the fried chicken – mine was delicious – Michael’s wasn’t as crispy on the skin as mine was.
After lunch, gas refueling to leave and grocery pick up we spent a bit of time relaxing before getting a short visit with our friends who recently moved back to Missouri. It was wonderful to get to see Bri and Jeff and the boys for a quick visit and some hugs.
We loved Branson and we will be going back at some point. It is way more beautiful there landscape wise than we realized and there’s so many more things we want to do and see there. Returning there is definitely on our bucket list for the future. We finished prepping what we could for the night – unfortunately it was not a site we could hook up at the night before as we were at a very weird angle and could not do so safely. We also weren’t on full hook ups so we prepared to hit the dump station before traveling on Tuesday. I got our breakfast burritos out of the freezer to reheat for the next morning and made sandwiches to have for lunch on the way. We went to bed excited to start our trek to Montana.
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