After Marilyn had picked up Rolf and Michael, we decided to go up to Top of the Rock for lunch. I retraced the route I has taken earlier in the day but stopped at the outlook on Highway 165 so my friends could experience the awesome view.
An Awesome View!
Michael, Marilyn, Rolf
Towards the Condos
Me, Rolf, Marilyn
Highway 165
Carved out of the side of the Mountain
Pretty in Pink!
These flowering trees were everywhere along the roadsides!
Marilyn
Flowers by the roadside
Food at the Top of the Rock Restaurant was great. Appetizers were yummy and the pizzas baked in a wood stove full of hickory wood were the best! Prices for 9 holes of golf were prohibitive though so we decided against returning there for golf the next day.
My friends in the
Top of the Rock Restaurant
Top of the Rock
I wouldn't do that to a LIVE bison, Michael!
Top of the Rock
A friendly mountain lion!
Top of the Rock
Spring had definitely arrived in Missouri!
After lunch we returned to the hotel. Marilyn and Rolf checked out CNN for news of the war in Iraq. Michael and I opted to go next door to the Alpenrose to play a couple of rounds of miniature golf.
Miniature Golf
It was like being in a pretty park.
Miniature Golf
The course was built on the side of the hill.
Miniature Golf
A couple of holes were inside "caves".
Miniature Golf
The course used rock and a waterfalls as obstacles.
Miniature Golf
Michael got a "hole in one" on this one.
Miniature Golf
One hole was IN the boat "on" the water.
The Alpenrose Inn is in the background.
Miniature Golf
A view down from the top of the waterfalls.
Miniature Golf
Towards the road. Alpenrose top left.
Miniature Golf
Pretty, isn't it?
Miniature Golf
Final hole. Michael "edged" me out on both rounds!
At around 7:00, we were off to the Magic Show starring Kirby Van Burch. His performance was at the Remington Theatre and included a tiger, a black panther, and a boa constrictor. He made a motorcycle disappear and just as quickly reappear and his finale had him making a full size helicopter appear. I was in the front row and I STILL don't know how the helicopter one was done. I DO know how the motorcycle trick was done. (I'll spill the beans if I can have a TV show to tell the world "all"!)
The Remmington Theater
(picture taken previous day when we picked up tickets)
The Remmington Theater
The lobby.
Magic Show
Marilyn's mind was "read" by Bambi Van Burch.
Magic Show
The finale.
It was a good day. The only sad thing about it was the realization that tomorrow we'd be headed home by noon. I packed up my suitcase and backpack and only kept out my motorcycle paraphenalia since I planned to take one final short ride around Branson the next morning.