Zip line Date

In December Mark found groupon tickets to the zip line down in Branson for 1/2 price, so we decided to get them. We practically had all year to use them. Then in Feb, he saw them again, and we decided it would be MORE fun to go WITH someone, (and we had my sister and brother in law in mind)

So fast forward to like 2 weeks ago, and we invited Mike and Marisa to go to the zip line with us, They were SUPER excited, which they SHOULD be, cause they were going to go do an awesome thing, with awesome people. :)

We thought it was for the Branson Zip Lines...nope, it was for Indian Point zip line, (still in branson, and still fun, just not as big)

So we went to their house and left at 8 on Tuesday morning. got there 20 mins early, signed the waiver and headed over to the first tower.  There ended up being a group of about 9 people and 2 guides. We weren't aloud to have cameras on the zip lines, so we didn't get any pictures. We stepped into our harnesses (rock climbing harnesses, and put on our helmets and headed up the tower.

We had a safety line that we were always clipped to, the guides hooked us up to the safety lines, and also hooked up to the zip line, we didn't do any hooking or un hooking. The first guide went down to get the brake system ready for all of us. Then they asked who wanted to go first. Mike raised his hand. Then Marisa was next, she made every body laugh every single time she went. the first time she rand and jumped and was yelling most of the way down.

I think it was the 2nd tower one of the girls noticed that there was just a very short step, no plank think to walk off, and she said "hey, there's no... scary little...death ramp to go off of" It was hilarious. Maybe you just had to be there.

There were 4 towers, we went from one to another. At one of them Marisa did a karate kick off and held the pose. All the way down. Every body was busting up. Even the people we didn't know. we were all just having a good time. We got to the last tower and as one of the last guys was coming in i yelled "LOOK OUT!" he he he, kinda freaked him out.

The tour was only 45 mins (and if you have to pay full price $72 a couple, it's NOT worth it. But for $36 a couple, it was fun enough to do it once.)

We cam back to Springfield and decided to go out to eat, but it was like 10:45, so we went to Hobby town USA to kill some time first. That place....was AWESOME. They had a rack of puppets right in the front if the store. The guys went to the RC stuff, and Marisa and I played with the puppets for like 15 mins. They were SO fun. We decided we need to make puppets (I have looked up how to do it a LONG time ago, I've wanted to make some for a while) :) Then we moved on to the rest of the store. They had some fun stuff, and the toys are better then toys r us. almost all of them are Danton proof. That is were we are going for christmas.

Then we went across the street to the Mall, and ate at HuHot, Mike and Ris had never been. It was yummy.

Seriously the funnest date! (well until we have our Bob Ross date, that should be fun too) We hadn't been on a double with them in SEVERAL years.... 8 actually. It's about time we got to hang out with out the kids.

Calling all cows!

Friday was Chick-Fil-A's cow appreciation day. Marisa and I found out about it Thursday evening. So we spent Friday morning getting ready to go. I found some felt that I had on hand, and some clear elastic. I found a picture of a cow mask like Lydia's on line, and she said that's what she wanted. So I made her a mask, I thought Danton would be a cool texas Longhorn bull, so I made him some horns and a cool nose complete with nose ring, and he also had a tail. I made some last minuet hooves and taped them to rubber bands, and had to stop at the store before we went so I picked up some rubber gloves for udders. When Danton saw them, he wanted on to. :)

I just put some ears on a head band and pinned a tail on Ris, they head band was never on for more than 4 seconds. I love this picture cause I think it looks like an advertisement.

All the kids actually sat and ate their food. They were very well behaved, polite, and obedient.  IT was a BLAST! Marisa came too, but she was a little later than we were, and my kids were about ready to go play when he kids started eating. 

see their little tails? I didn't get a picture of Arissa's tail, it was SO cute.

And I took an old ball cap and just glued the felt on to make a cow head. Now i actually want to sew one, it turned out a lot cuter then I expected it to.


The kids LOVED their costumes. I kept asking Danton if he wanted me to hold his nose and horns, but he wanted to wear them. EVERYBODY loved his costume.  

Yeah, we will be putting these in the costume box.