We left Branson this morning about 9am after having a free breakfast provided by the KOA and Heartland Rv's. I had scrambled eggs and sausage patties with coffee. Deanna had the same except she had milk. :) So we talked a bit with some of our new friends and then headed back to hitch up the rv and begin our journey to the Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro, Arkansas. The trip was about 6- 1/2 hours and 290 miles. Nice easy drive meandering along at 55 mph as most of the road was just 2 lane. No spectacular things to report along the way other than some great scenery, oppps yes there was! WE went thru an area that must have just had a tornado recently. Stuff was thrown all over and a big building like a grain building was pretty much crumbled to the ground. Lots of trees were tore up and then just a quarter mile away everything was fine.
Gotta say there was not a straight or flat road anywhere during that 290 mile drive! Twisty turny hilly, you name it! We got to the registration building and got out it was steamin HOT 90* and humid. There was a sign on the door warning you to drink lots of fluid and that the diamond mines surface was 110*! YIKES! We are going to try and go early in the morning before the sun gets to hot and hopefully the ticket is good for all day and we can go back in the evening. They even have a water park here and it was being well used!. The campground is not very big, I think 60 sites and half appear to be tent sites.
Saturday night was the catered dinner by Heartland which was roast beast or Pork with side dishes of beans (yuck) and potato salad (yuck) so I ate roast beast and then there were pies for dessert! I had Cherrie and Deanna had Apple. We were also provided entertainment by the Yearys a Husband and Wife team with their 13 year old daughter. There was an older gentleman playing the keyboard they called Grandpa who use to play with the Oak Ridge Boys for years. The music was a mix of mostly old time stuff and he was a Bass singer. We enjoyed the show and dinner and then went back to the trailer with Ken and Kathy and ate cake and Ice cream :)
Just one of the rally attendees being sung to :)
So that gets you up to speed thru Sunday night. Lets hope there are diamonds in our future. Actually I was sitting on the lawn chair and looked down and saw what looked like a diamond but I think it is a piece of semi round glass. You just never know!
Our campsite
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