Our first long family drive with the 2007 Mazda 6. We drove all the way to Branson, MO and stayed at the Wyndham Branson at The Meadows. We left the very last weekend in July and came back the first week in August. Wow was it HOT! Most days we swam at the pool so we didn’t melt. We did go to Silver Dollar City, which is kinda like Great America. They had some really fun rides, but the kids were a little short for some of the big roller coasters. The visit to the Trout hatchery was pretty cool too. The kids fed the thousands of Trout they had at the facility. While we were in Branson a huge condo complex burned down by the lake and you could see the smoke for miles. We had to check it out, so we drove to the the lake and took some pictures. On the way home we stopped to watch the Brewers play the Cardinals in St. Louis. It was a great experience, but Miller Park is a better stadium in our opinion. We also visited the Arch, but didn’t have time to go up in it as there were hundreds of people there waiting to go up. We had a great time and really enjoyed our first long road trip as a family.
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