We left for Branson on the 6th of August. Making this trip is always a big ordeal. We leave from St. Louis dragging the bass boat and enough stuff to camp for a month. Drive to Springfield and hook the boat to Steve's truck.... drive to Willard and leave the truck and boat there.... drive on to Stockton lake which is 50 the opposite direction of Springfield as Branson is.... to pickup the travel trailer. Get there and find that someone had backed into it on the storage lot. Minor damage but stillllllllllllllllllll. Drive back to Willard pickup the boat and Steve's truck.... Roger pulls the trailer and I pull the boat. Get to Branson and spend the next several hours setting up the trailer and unpacking supplies. All of this is the reason I had told Roger I did not want to go for a four day weekend so he extended it for 10 days.

Steve and Pam came down on Friday 7th and all had a great time fishing and eating fish.

On Sunday Mary and her bunch came down to see mom. This is Mary with Jason and Elizabeth two boys, Peyton and Jackson.

Jason is a great dad. We enjoyed seeing all as mom and I had not seen Jackson yet.

Dandy boy.