Branson Trip- Saturday

Saturday was a busy day for us. We woke up early (around 8 am), made some coffee, took showers and got the day started. We already had tickets for Ripleys Believe it or Not, the Titanic, and the Comedy Jamboree that we new we were going to do, but that was not going to fill up the whole day, so we started off at the Hollywood Wax Museum.

When you first walk in there is a big giant King Kong and a camera. They take two pictures of you, one with you standing there smiling and the other with you screaming for your life. Each picture cost ten dollars and after seeing them, James and I opted not to get them. I looked more like I was laughing rather than screaming and we already had a pretty picture from the night before, so we carried on with our tour.

It was a self guided tour and you were allowed to step in the sets with the characters and take pictures. I would have to say it was cooler than I thought it would be and most of the characters actually looked real!

Next up came the Titanic and I had been waiting out whole trip for this! This was also a self guided tour, so we opted to get the audio players. It was really cool, but you were not allowed to take pictures inside, but we did get the ones they take for you, even though I did not like how I looked. I also snaped a few of the outside.

There are a lot of artifacts, many from the Titanics sister ships, but it's basically the same and they let you know when this is the case. As you walk in they give you a name of a passenger. I was Salena Cook and James had Wallace Hartley. I was a 22 year old second class school teacher who was married and about to surprise my husband with the news of our first child. James was a 33 year old band leader whose band played on the ship. He went down with the ship and you heard music till the last possible second from him and his band members. I survived, but my husband did not leaving me with a child that he never new about.

As you go through, there is information about you as a passenger and then towards the end you get to find out if you lived or died. I lived but sadly James went down with the ship. There is also an iceburg as you first walk in that you can touch as well as a bowl of water that is the temperature of the water the night the ship sank with a timer to see how long you could hold your hand in. James and I both lasted 3 seconds (it was COLD!). My favorite part was James and my friendly competition on who could get up the furthest on the steepest plank. They had these three planks, one was the normal ship, the second was the ship a little after it started to sink, and the third and final plank was the ship right before it finally sank. Almost upright! Of course, I won, but he did better than I had originally thought.