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I wish I could take a couple of days off and go to Branson free. Some guys have all the damned luck.
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Bro I could say it's karma, but we both know I'd be lieing, or would I?
In all seriousness it is really nice of them to do this for us, but they wouldn't have anyone to go with if we didn't go, another nice thing about being really retired Bro.
I posted about our trip so you guys wouldn't freak out like y'all did when I was in the hospital, see what I get when I try to be considerate?
In all seriousness it is really nice of them to do this for us, but they wouldn't have anyone to go with if we didn't go, another nice thing about being really retired Bro.
I posted about our trip so you guys wouldn't freak out like y'all did when I was in the hospital, see what I get when I try to be considerate?
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Be sure to read the email I just sent you, Bro.
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Make sure you bring along a Cherokee Rose. You never know when you might need to peel a couple of apples.
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NDN,
I CAN'T GO TOO!
jim
I CAN'T GO TOO!
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Can't wait to see you back safe and sound!
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We had a great time.
Went to a show called Legends that had look alikes of some famous stars of one sort or another.
This show was entirely different than others I've seen with look alike people because these people were using their own voices!!!!!!!
Barb and me are definitely NOT Garth Brooks fans, but his look alike was the opening act and it was excellent. If I was the real Garth I would definitely be worried!!!!
There was also a Marilyn Monroe who came down into the audience and got an older baldish guy with glasses and took him on stage, set on his lap, took off his glasses and put them down the front of her low cut evening gown and then proceeded to have even more fun with him with the audience in
uproars!!!!
There's no way it could've been an act unless the older fellow and his wife were really good actors as It would take someone very special to blush on cue like he
did.
There was an Elvis impersonator who although not looking as much like Elvis as some I've seen did an excellent performance on the songs!!!!
Best of all was the Blues Brothers performance. These guys looked and sounded so much like their counterparts that if you heard and saw just a snap of the performance it would have been dayumed hard to tell the difference, at least for me anyway.
Also got to see Yakov Smirnoff yesterday morning who was wonderful and a really decent human and one of the good guys. He doesn't charge anything for kids under 12 and the seats in his theatre don't make you feel like a Ph****g Sardine!!!! Yakov is also very proud to have become an American Citizen and isn't afraid of telling anyone so!!!!
Yesterday afternoon we went to see Frederico, can't recall his last name, who is an excellent pianist. Frederico is also very proud to have become an American Citizen and also is not afraid of telling you so.
I can't recall hearing anyone ever playing the piano like he does!!!!!!!
I always hated to watch Liberace perform, but loved to hear him play, kinda the same thing as watching or hearing Jim Nabors sing, and IMO this guy beats Liberace hands down and not just, then some, but more than a whole lot!!!!
There are two pianos, one on a revolving platform that can be stopped anywhere you want it to stop and then the other on rails that moves towards the other one putting them in a perfect position so that one person can play one, either one, or the same song on both at the same time.
BUT!!!!!!
Towards the end of his performance this man plays 2 songs on the 2 pianos, the Piano Boogey on the left and the Green Green Grass of Home on the
other at the same time!!!!!!!
To see and hear such a thing is a marvel to behold!!!!!!!
I almost forgot about the reason this act is called Waltzing Waters.
There's a 40,000 gallon tank of water behind the stage set up with multiple fountain heads that can spray in almost any direction.
There are lights overhad the water and there is a fountaineer who directs the water to the music as well as some of the keys of the pianos being electronically linked to the fountains. The performance is beautiful to both eyes and ears.
I think the high point of the trip for me anyway was our visit to the Talking Cave!!!!!!!
It's about 100 - 110 feet deep and is still living with water dripping or running in tiny and some not so tiny rivulets. There's a small pool at the bottom that usually stays about 2 1/2 to 3 feet deep.
It's stable enough to support life in the way of some tiny crustaceans and cave salamanders that have evolved to where they have no eyes.
There's some clawed marks quite a ways up one of the walls and you walk right past them on the way back up.
No one's ever found any bones or other traces of the bear or large cat that made the marks and no one knows how they managed to get up that high on the wall as
well.
At the start of the tour the young lady who was our guide said that the cave had once been full of clay eons ago and that the water, perhaps an underground stream, had gradually washed the clay out eons ago as well.
When she said no one could figure out how the marks got that high I said, "Perhaps it was when the cave wasn't any deeper than that at the time and the animal was trapped here and maybe died and then decayed because the conditions weren't right for any kind of preservation, then again, maybe the animal even discovered a way
out."
I can't recall whether it was the family of the original finder that put the concrete steps and landings in the cave or a later owner, but they are 76 years old and still as solid as the day they were built. The absence of light and the ever present very high humidity keeps the concrete from cracking, it's all pretty amazing to me and what was the most amazing was that I made it all the way to the bottom and all the way back up under my own steam!!!!
I had to stop and rest a few times going back up, but it wasn't bad for me. Bro there's no way in hay'll I coulda done that 4 weeks ago!!!!
The way was very steep in places as well as pretty dayumed tight!!!!
I made a remark that they needed a couple of walls put as close together as the tightest place in the cave and then put a sign on it saying, "If you can't get through here you can't get through the cave."
The young lady guide said that they have had people quite a lot larger than me make it through the tight spots.
I don't know how they managed it unless they left some skin behind.!!!!
It's sure good to be home though!!!!
Next road trip is at the end of May to Pennsylvania and will be a longer stay.
Then the next one is we're hoping for August and will be headed for Phoenix Arizona with a side trip to Tucson!!!!
Sure wish the granddaughter was graduating in August instead of May, because I would much rather have the trips reveresed!!!!
Went to a show called Legends that had look alikes of some famous stars of one sort or another.
This show was entirely different than others I've seen with look alike people because these people were using their own voices!!!!!!!
Barb and me are definitely NOT Garth Brooks fans, but his look alike was the opening act and it was excellent. If I was the real Garth I would definitely be worried!!!!
There was also a Marilyn Monroe who came down into the audience and got an older baldish guy with glasses and took him on stage, set on his lap, took off his glasses and put them down the front of her low cut evening gown and then proceeded to have even more fun with him with the audience in
uproars!!!!
There's no way it could've been an act unless the older fellow and his wife were really good actors as It would take someone very special to blush on cue like he
did.
There was an Elvis impersonator who although not looking as much like Elvis as some I've seen did an excellent performance on the songs!!!!
Best of all was the Blues Brothers performance. These guys looked and sounded so much like their counterparts that if you heard and saw just a snap of the performance it would have been dayumed hard to tell the difference, at least for me anyway.
Also got to see Yakov Smirnoff yesterday morning who was wonderful and a really decent human and one of the good guys. He doesn't charge anything for kids under 12 and the seats in his theatre don't make you feel like a Ph****g Sardine!!!! Yakov is also very proud to have become an American Citizen and isn't afraid of telling anyone so!!!!
Yesterday afternoon we went to see Frederico, can't recall his last name, who is an excellent pianist. Frederico is also very proud to have become an American Citizen and also is not afraid of telling you so.
I can't recall hearing anyone ever playing the piano like he does!!!!!!!
I always hated to watch Liberace perform, but loved to hear him play, kinda the same thing as watching or hearing Jim Nabors sing
, and IMO this guy beats Liberace hands down and not just, then some, but more than a whole lot!!!!There are two pianos, one on a revolving platform that can be stopped anywhere you want it to stop and then the other on rails that moves towards the other one putting them in a perfect position so that one person can play one, either one, or the same song on both at the same time.
BUT!!!!!!
Towards the end of his performance this man plays 2 songs on the 2 pianos, the Piano Boogey on the left and the Green Green Grass of Home on the
other at the same time!!!!!!!
To see and hear such a thing is a marvel to behold!!!!!!!
I almost forgot about the reason this act is called Waltzing Waters.
There's a 40,000 gallon tank of water behind the stage set up with multiple fountain heads that can spray in almost any direction.
There are lights overhad the water and there is a fountaineer who directs the water to the music as well as some of the keys of the pianos being electronically linked to the fountains. The performance is beautiful to both eyes and ears.
I think the high point of the trip for me anyway was our visit to the Talking Cave!!!!!!!
It's about 100 - 110 feet deep and is still living with water dripping or running in tiny and some not so tiny rivulets. There's a small pool at the bottom that usually stays about 2 1/2 to 3 feet deep.
It's stable enough to support life in the way of some tiny crustaceans and cave salamanders that have evolved to where they have no eyes.
There's some clawed marks quite a ways up one of the walls and you walk right past them on the way back up.
No one's ever found any bones or other traces of the bear or large cat that made the marks and no one knows how they managed to get up that high on the wall as
well.
At the start of the tour the young lady who was our guide said that the cave had once been full of clay eons ago and that the water, perhaps an underground stream, had gradually washed the clay out eons ago as well.
When she said no one could figure out how the marks got that high I said, "Perhaps it was when the cave wasn't any deeper than that at the time and the animal was trapped here and maybe died and then decayed because the conditions weren't right for any kind of preservation, then again, maybe the animal even discovered a way
out."
I can't recall whether it was the family of the original finder that put the concrete steps and landings in the cave or a later owner, but they are 76 years old and still as solid as the day they were built. The absence of light and the ever present very high humidity keeps the concrete from cracking, it's all pretty amazing to me and what was the most amazing was that I made it all the way to the bottom and all the way back up under my own steam!!!!
I had to stop and rest a few times going back up, but it wasn't bad for me. Bro there's no way in hay'll I coulda done that 4 weeks ago!!!!
The way was very steep in places as well as pretty dayumed tight!!!!
I made a remark that they needed a couple of walls put as close together as the tightest place in the cave and then put a sign on it saying, "If you can't get through here you can't get through the cave."
The young lady guide said that they have had people quite a lot larger than me make it through the tight spots.
I don't know how they managed it unless they left some skin behind.!!!!
It's sure good to be home though!!!!
Next road trip is at the end of May to Pennsylvania and will be a longer stay.
Then the next one is we're hoping for August and will be headed for Phoenix Arizona with a side trip to Tucson!!!!
Sure wish the granddaughter was graduating in August instead of May, because I would much rather have the trips reveresed!!!!
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Many thanks for good report from the field. Good to see you back in decent shape, Bro.