Entertained in Branson

We took a quick trip down to Branson to see what it was all about. So many people are excited about Branson and it does seem like a fun place. The first thing on our list of things to do was to visit the Titanic museum. We were each given a boarding pass with the name of a passenger on it and some information about that person. We learned more about our people as we toured through the museum. Rick and Becca learned early that they died. Rick’s passenger was a well to do author and had Mark Twain as his best man in his wedding. Becca didn't want to leave her husband so they died holding each other in their arms. Faith, Jacob and I found out at the end that we survived. Faith was an attendant for the wealthiest man on board. I was traveling with my sister and we both survived. Jacob was a crew member. It’s said that while on watch he (Jacob) could smell ice in the water because the ice is fresh water and the ocean is salt. Unfortunately, he wasn’t on watch that night. When he was woken up by another crew member he didn’t think the situation was as bad as it was and went to the galley to have a cup of coffee.

The museum was full of information and artifacts. There were several pictures taken by a passenger who was on the ship for the first two days and disembarked before it took off for New York. We weren’t able to take pictures in the museum. I understood about the 100 year old artifacts, but I would’ve enjoyed pictures of the fun interactive exhibits.

We enjoyed trying to walk on the decks when they were at 5, 30 and 45 degree angles. We had to pull ourselves up by the railing to get up the 45 degree deck. They also had 28 degree water just like the freezing water that night. All five of us stuck our hand in at the same time. It was freezing! I moved my fingers hoping that would help keep the circulation going, but it was still freezing. I pulled mine out first because I didn’t see any benefit of keeping in there any longer than 30 seconds. Rick was stubborn and kept it in there for a minute and fifteen seconds.

That evening we went to the Hamner & Barber show. Hamner is a magician and Barber a ventriloquist. They were quite entertaining. Hamner baffled us with tricks that involved birds, cards and escaping while Barber kept us laughing. Days later we were still laughing and trying to figure out some of the magic tricks.

Talking with the performers after the show