The Big Ketchup Part 1
HA, HA!
Anyways, it's time to get you guys caught up on how we've been spending our weekends.
Something that we've been talking about doing for a long time was Medieval Times. We finally made it over there. We took the kids to Dixie Stampede while we were in Branson, so we had a good idea as to what to expect.
At Dixie Stampede, the doors open about one and a half hours before showtime. After they take your picture, you go into a huge room and wait for the pre-show entertainment to start about 50 minutes before showtime. While you wait you can read about the history of Dixie Stampede and buy drinks and popcorn. After the pre-show, you are sent into the main room for the show and they serve you food with no utensils. I've had the pleasure of seeing this show a couple of times. After the show, they have you exit through the gift shop so that you may find that perfect souvenir to remind you of the fun. All in all, quite organized.
Medieval Times was pretty much the same, in theory. Doors opened two hours early and after taking our picture, we were sent into a huge room where we saw souvenir stands and a couple of bars. Most people were just mingling around and when I asked a few people what we were supposed to be doing, they were all as lost as we were. There was no pre-show and the noise of everyone standing around, each holding their own conversation, was almost too much to bear. Finally they opened the doors and we were all herded into the main room. Unlike Dixie Stampede where there is only two sides where people are seated and you cheer for the North or the South, at Medieval Times, there are six different knights to cheer for and the arena has seating all the way around it. We were seated in the Yellow Knight's section, which was in the corner. A lousy seat choice to say the least. A guy near us threw a fit and was reseated in the center section. I seriously thought about achieving this same preference, however I chose to be better than that (this once). The meal was about the same, chicken, a rib, potato, soup, pastry and drinks all with no utensils.
Medieval Times was alright, a dinner show is always fun, however, between the two, Dixie Stampede seemed to have all of the kinks worked out and things just seemed to flow smoother.
A different weekend we went to the boat races. I told the kids there would also be submarine races but then completely forgot about it the rest of the day. LOL
We went to the Cowtown Drag Boat Nationals. Jenny knows a guy at work that is on a race team. It was pretty cool and all of our first time to see drag boats. They are as loud as cars! For some reason the main website is down, but here is another one. The race team we went to see won the couple of races we watched. It was extremely hot out there, over 100 degrees. Luckily none of us burned. All of the racers are happy to see the kids out there and some of them even have trading cards to pass out. While we were in the pits, a race team let my son sit in their boat, how cool!
That weekend we also tried a new pizza / arcade place much like Chuck E. Cheese or Peter Piper Pizza. It is called Incredible Pizza. Truly an oxymoron, because the pizza was horrible. Like Alley Cats, they have gone away from the use of tokens and instead, use cards. You have these credit card type cards that you "load" with money and then swipe them in the card reader of the game you wish to play. The advantage to these companies using cards it that they can over charge you for each game. A game that would normally cost you 25¢, instead costs 35¢. Instead of 50¢, it's 65¢ and so on. Many of the games here didn't even work, either.
Well, that's it for part 1, more to come soon.
And That's What I Think.
Anyways, it's time to get you guys caught up on how we've been spending our weekends.
Something that we've been talking about doing for a long time was Medieval Times. We finally made it over there. We took the kids to Dixie Stampede while we were in Branson, so we had a good idea as to what to expect.
At Dixie Stampede, the doors open about one and a half hours before showtime. After they take your picture, you go into a huge room and wait for the pre-show entertainment to start about 50 minutes before showtime. While you wait you can read about the history of Dixie Stampede and buy drinks and popcorn. After the pre-show, you are sent into the main room for the show and they serve you food with no utensils. I've had the pleasure of seeing this show a couple of times. After the show, they have you exit through the gift shop so that you may find that perfect souvenir to remind you of the fun. All in all, quite organized.
Medieval Times was pretty much the same, in theory. Doors opened two hours early and after taking our picture, we were sent into a huge room where we saw souvenir stands and a couple of bars. Most people were just mingling around and when I asked a few people what we were supposed to be doing, they were all as lost as we were. There was no pre-show and the noise of everyone standing around, each holding their own conversation, was almost too much to bear. Finally they opened the doors and we were all herded into the main room. Unlike Dixie Stampede where there is only two sides where people are seated and you cheer for the North or the South, at Medieval Times, there are six different knights to cheer for and the arena has seating all the way around it. We were seated in the Yellow Knight's section, which was in the corner. A lousy seat choice to say the least. A guy near us threw a fit and was reseated in the center section. I seriously thought about achieving this same preference, however I chose to be better than that (this once). The meal was about the same, chicken, a rib, potato, soup, pastry and drinks all with no utensils.
Medieval Times was alright, a dinner show is always fun, however, between the two, Dixie Stampede seemed to have all of the kinks worked out and things just seemed to flow smoother.
A different weekend we went to the boat races. I told the kids there would also be submarine races but then completely forgot about it the rest of the day. LOL
We went to the Cowtown Drag Boat Nationals. Jenny knows a guy at work that is on a race team. It was pretty cool and all of our first time to see drag boats. They are as loud as cars! For some reason the main website is down, but here is another one. The race team we went to see won the couple of races we watched. It was extremely hot out there, over 100 degrees. Luckily none of us burned. All of the racers are happy to see the kids out there and some of them even have trading cards to pass out. While we were in the pits, a race team let my son sit in their boat, how cool!
That weekend we also tried a new pizza / arcade place much like Chuck E. Cheese or Peter Piper Pizza. It is called Incredible Pizza. Truly an oxymoron, because the pizza was horrible. Like Alley Cats, they have gone away from the use of tokens and instead, use cards. You have these credit card type cards that you "load" with money and then swipe them in the card reader of the game you wish to play. The advantage to these companies using cards it that they can over charge you for each game. A game that would normally cost you 25¢, instead costs 35¢. Instead of 50¢, it's 65¢ and so on. Many of the games here didn't even work, either.Well, that's it for part 1, more to come soon.
And That's What I Think.
posted by KMAN @ 8/22/2008 12:37:00 PM
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