Lazy day...

From today's morning walk..

Today we just relaxed at Grandma Rhonda's place. The girls needed a days break after a lot of running around shopping and getting our car... We've had busy days in Branson, unfortunately our bad luck continued with a closed Silver Dollar City..( of course we should have checked that before, but its as unexpected as if Liseberg was closed in mid July...)

We spend a nice day at Table Rock Lake and at our beautiful resort! Sunshine, around 30 degrees- perfect day! And we went shopping at Tanger Outlet. As usually I didn't buy anything for me..just supercute outfits for the girls, mostly at Oshkosh and Carters for Jamie. I've bought a lot of clothes from them before and they are always good quality. Mom bought some Yankee candles. There's a big Yankee Candle store and its almost intoxicating to go in and smell...they have it all! I'm planning to buy a whole bunch in Montana.. After spending a couple of hours there, Natalie had enough...I can tell its a lot easier to go shop with two Grandmas that can keep the kids busy! But still not so much fun for a little girl. We also walked around a little downtown Branson. There's a nice walk by the river with shops..

 



Bass Pro Shop...

On the way back to Stella we stopped in Springfield and the huge Bass Pro Shop. It's like a store for all outdoor activities you can imagine. (They have everything except winter sport equipment.) And the interior is truly amazing with alive fishes, turtles etc. waterfalls, streams... you name it. Really kid friendly and impossible to describe, but the interior designers have put a lot of thoughts behind the décor.. It is a store I strongly recommend for everyone if you ever drive by and they have all top brand like North Face etc. Natalie loves it, unfortunately we were there pretty late so both girls started to be little too tired.

Yesterday we finally could go and buy the new car ( I'll put up pics later). It's a Ford Explorer 2009, pretty low miles and it's nice to drive! So now we can start to pack our car for the long drive to Montana. Car seats from Britax for the girls we bought online so they are here and already used. We are also going to rent a uhaul-trailer so we can put all bags, stroller, Natalies bike, Jareds fish equipment and stuff like that in. A medium sized one we rent here in Missouri and leave up in Montana. I don't know how much a similar cost to rent in Sweden, but I know I paid around 1000 SEK for a one day moving trailer from Gothenburg - Kristianstad. Now we pay around 350 dollars for 8 days.. We will probably need it more, but its like renting a car you can just call in for more days. Tomorrow we'll pack it all in and get ready to leave...exciting! We plan to drive in total around 2400 km. I'll tell you more about the roadtrip later...