TRG - day 3

Day 3 of our trip to Table Rock Lake consisted of a super fun & full day. We started off the day by stopping into IHOP & eating a late breakfast. Mase absolutely loved his smiley face pancakes :)

We usually ate a late breakfast so we could skip lunch & get an early dinner to avoid all the tourists. It was just simply too hot to grill out or prepare food in the camper so unfortunately we ate out pretty much the entire time we were here.

Next stop was a tour of Branson on the "Ride the Ducks" tour. Before we got on the "amphibian" vehicle Mase was given a quacker which sounded just like a duck & we regretted buying it the minute he put it to his mouth. He & about 6 other kids quacked the entire tour!

On our tour we drove through the scenic Ozarks, climbed to the top of a mountain that overlooked Table Rock Lake (& our campsite by the marina):

And after we headed down from the mountain we drove up to & into Table Rock Lake for a tour around the lake. Mase even got to drive the boat:

 We passed by the Showboat Branson Belle:

 

And enjoyed hearing about the city & seeing all the expensive homes that were on the lake:

 

Once we were back on land we headed back to the Ride the Ducks building & from there we headed on over to the Titanic museum.

I had gotten tickets on Groupon for this museum which was a pretty good savings because otherwise it would have been pricey to have gone through it. It was neat though to be a "passenger" on the Titanic & experience what it was like to walk the hallways, parlors, cabins & Grand Staircase while being surrounded by more than 400 artifacts directly from the ship & its passengers. There was a real iceberg we could touch, a pit of 28 degree water we could stick our hands into to feel how cold the water was the night the ship went down as well as sloping decks to try & stand on.

At the end of the tour you located the name on your boarding pass & could find out your fate in the Memorial Room where 2,208 names line the historic wall & say whether they lived or died that fatal night.
It was a pretty cool thing to see & a couple of hours spent in the air conditioning was pretty amazing! Definitely something to check out if you have a few hours you want to kill!

On our way back to the camper we decided to pull into this cute little BBQ joint called Danna's BBQ for supper & so glad we did! It was some pretty amazing stuff!

We headed back to the steamy hot camper after we ate, turned on the air conditioners & went for a walk around the marina while the RV cooled down.

This kid loves throwing rocks into the water so he proceeded to do that for 30 minutes. Mase has quite the arm on him....hoping he is a pitcher in the future like he his Daddy was in the past!

We made it back to the RV as the sun was going down & went inside for showers, popcorn & a movie. We have one more day for fun before we head back home so looking forward to what tomorrow brings us.