Last Day in Branson Caching & a Great Lunch 9/2/2010

Today was our last day in Branson so Mom and I headed into the cities historic district to finish the caches here and have lunch together. We only had 6 caches left to do here and they were all in the downtown area. There really wasn't anything interesting or historic about any of the caches as the ones we found were 2 at Branson Landing a shopping mall, one at a lock company, one at a florist shop in a hollow tree stump and 2 in small parks in the downtown area. After finishing the caches we drove around the historic downtown area and parked the car and started walking up and down the streets. There really wasn't any interesting shops as they had taken all the old buildings and made them all into "junk" stores. The shops were flea markets, thrift stores, souvenir shops, tee shirt shops, antique shops and warehouse outlets. The one interesting store was Dick's Oldtime 5c & 10c Store. They had everything under the sun with wall to wall and floor to ceiling nostalgia. Over 50,000 different items, plus autographed baseball memorabilia, WWII aviation art prints and White River Arrowhead collection on exhibit. Then it was off to lunch at the Bleu Olive Mediterranean Grille & Bar in the Branson historic district. We had a great lunch as the food was wonderful. We had calamari for an appetizer and then Mom had a Greek salad and I had a gyro and everything was very tasty. It was a very fancy restaurant with linen tablecloths and napkins with paintings and sculptures all over. It was kind of out of place for a city like Branson but we were pleasantly surprised with the great food and besides Mom loved it over Sonic or McDonalds. Then it off back to the coach for the afternoon and evening as I had a fantasy football draft for our Town of Camillus league. We had a tornado warning out for the area later in the evening and had a very loud bright thunderstorm about 8:30. Well that's about all from here for today so until tomorrow we love and miss you all. Mom & Dad Dori & Dick