In case you missed my last post, the Morrilton High School band trip was Friday and today… and it was a blast! At first I, like many of my fellow bandmates, thought it wouldn’t be as fun since we only got to go to Branson (for the longest time, we were told we were going to get to got to Disney World, but we didn’t have enough money to go there, unfortunately). However, it turned out to be a lot more fun that I anticipated.
On Friday, we got together at the band room at about 9:30 in the morning, and started loading the busses (which were charter busses… nice!). We had to have our bags checked, but most of the bag checks were practically non-exsistant. Brad, when got his bag checked, he opened his bag up, told the lady, “There’s some snacks, my boxers, and some shirts.” He didn’t move a thing and when he closed the bag, the contents of the suitcase were exactly the same as when he had opened it. He could have snuck anything in and they would have never known….
But anyway… we ate in Harrison and when we got to Branson, we checked into the hotel we were staying in, the Settle Inn (ha, a little play on words, there), which was actually quite nice. I would reccommend it to anyone wanting to stay in Branson. After that, we had some free time, and Brad and I watched TV, but when we learned that the only TV channels that hotel got was pretty much news or sports, we started messing around, and we made a pond in our bathroom sink. 
We also learned that the hairdryer in our room, when you flicked the switch up and down really quick, would create these crazy sparks. I was pretty neat.
After that, we went to Celebration City. There was some problem with the tickets, so we just stood there for nearly half an hour to an hour waiting for the tickets to get in the gates. After we finally got in, we rode pretty much every ride in the park. On the Wildcat *hand motion* (inside joke), there was this weird guy who had obviously been riding it for quite some time (he struck me as someone who would be a pedophile…). I was forced to sit next to him, and throughout the entire ride, he was completely emotionless. Even on the drops and curves, and everything, he would just sit there… it was kinda creepy. The only thing he did on the entire ride was when we passed the camera for the ride pictures, he suddely did a thumbs-up for the camera… it was pretty freaky.
After Celebration City, we went to this go-kart place and drove the go-karts. There was also laser-tag and bumper-boats, but I didn’t ride them. It was really fun. Then after that, we retuned to the hotel and were forced into our rooms. They took up our cell phones, which sucked. We were told they took them up so that we wouldn’t be calling people late at night and disturbing our room-mates late at night, but for some reason, I don’t quite belive that…. There were some crazy things that Matt did in our room… I’ll just say it involved a blowdryer, and leave the rest up to your imagination (and no… it’s not that perverted) But me and my roomates (Phillip, Matt, and Brad) stayed up forever just talking about random stuff. We went from music to video games to classic TV to roller coasters… pretty much everything you could possibly come up with. It was actually quite an interesting discussion.
Today, we went to Silver Dollar City and rode all the major rides (the roller coasters, the log flume, Fire in the Hole… all the good ones [we didn’t have as much time at Silver Dollar City as we had at Celebration City, which I thought was dumb… first of all, it wouldn’t have been as busy on Friday night as on Saturday, and second of all, there’s a lot more to do at Silver Dollar City than Celebration City]). We bought some crazy stuff (you should see Christy’s hat) and over all had a ton of fun. Another thing… we had to leave at three… why didn’t we stay there longer… there’s a lot to do at Silver Dollar City, you need time to enjoy it all. It seems kinda superfluous to go there and leave at three in the afternoon…. but that wasn’t my decision…
Man… I nearly doubled my last big post’s record of characters typed… this time it’s over four thousand… that is a butt-load… literally. I don’t think I’ve written that much for an English paper…. (Nevermind… my longest English paper, for comparison, is about nine thousand characters…)