A 99cent Foot of Chocolate in Historic Branson

My family loves Branson, I mean LOVES BRANSON!!
We visit this tourist town as often as time and resources will allow. The Memorial Day weekend provided us another opportunity. This time we decided to finally check out the Historic Downtown area. We had often passed through this part of Branson but never stopped to actually check it out. This was finally the day.

Along with the many variety type shops and tourist stuff shops we found candy stores, desert shops, diners, and even a theater advertising an Elvis Show. The atmosphere was far removed from the "Branson Strip" which is full of flashing lights, high priced shows, and chain restaurants. The Historic Downtown area was a more relaxed step back from the long lines of traffic. For me it was the advertised "Foot of Chocolate" for 99 cents that I was most interested in. The Fudge Shop honored their ad, in a rather strange way.

I am not sure what I was expecting when I dropped down my crisp dollar bill, but a foot of chocolate is what I got. In fact it was a foot print shaped piece of chocolate on a stick. I was well satisfied with my purchase. As for the downtown area...... we decided we liked the fast paced, flashing light atmosphere of the strip.

A Day to Believe It..... or Not

This week we decided to take advantage of one of Branson's more main stream attractions, "Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum". I know the term has just begun but over Christmas break I began a new job at The Arc of the Ozarks and now with school into it's second week it was clearly time for a quick family get-away. Branson has been our favorite place to sneak off too but this time of year the options are slim. The good thing is that main stream attractions like Ripley's or the Hollywood Wax Museum are open year round.

So in the museum we found many odd and eccentric things including this disappearing jewel that we could see in the mouth of this icon but we just couldn't put our hands on it.

This crazy looking totum pole was a nice place to rest but not for too long, this was the exhibit about cannibals.

I got to have a little fun too.....

Our girls loved the many things we got to see and experience, after all it is not everyday you get to stand next to the tallest man on Earth. We certainly had a fun time together and enjoyed another wonderful Branson Adventure.