Cobblestone Vacay 2013: Thursday 5/30

Thursday's Menu:

Breakfast:  sausage patties, eggs, biscuits and gravy
Lunch: veggie burritos, rice, lettuce, sour cream, salsa, and tortilla chips, cookies
Dinner:  meatloaf, mac & cheese, corn on the cob, applesauce, rolls, strawberry upside-down cake

Thursday's Activities:

I didn't participate in the washers tourney.  I'm not a fan of washers and I'm not a fan of that yucky sand....it's just not Florida sand! 

After lunch, we went to Fanning to the World's Largest Rocker, then into Steelville to the little park, and then to the Soda Fountain for treats.

66 Outpost, home of the famous World's Largest Rocker
We had stopped here a couple years ago, but the store was closed, so I wanted to go back and see what all they had inside.  It was really cute, but the best part was they had a smashed penny machine!

 

 

I posted this picture on my Facebook page and someone commented "Watch out Bear, there's a Stacey in front of you!"  It made me LOL!

 

Oh yeah, an unexpecting smashed penny machine!  I started collecting these a few years ago and love finding new ones.  I actually ended up with three new ones on this vacation!

 

Little Springs Park in Steelville, Mo

I don't really remember the name of this park, but we go to it each time we go to Cobblestone.  It's just a little roadside park and we are only there for a few minutes, but we always stop. 

 

 

 When we were walking out to leave, I noticed a momma duck and her nine babies waddling down the grass and into the water.  I didn't have my zoom lens with me and wished I would of went back to the car to get it so I could take some closer pictures to these little cuties!

 

The Soda Fountain

Before we headed back to Cobblestone, we stopped at the Soda Fountain in Steelville for a sweet treat.  I had heard from Kat that this place had yummy, but expensive banana splits.  I have a weakness for banana splits, so I didn't care that it was $7.00.  It was worth it!  Shawn had the cookie sundae and really loved it too.  I'm sure we'll make another trip in here next year!



They even have 5¢ cokes!  Just ask for one!

 

 

Instead of the horseshoe tourney, they did indoor shuffleboard.  I'm thinking it was raining which is why they changed it.  Shawn and I played the game against his parents .... 

 

 

....and we got robbed by this point!

 

I "helped" with a couple of the items of the scavenger hunt..

 

Katie pointing to the cabin closest to the river...this would be Cabin 1, or the Loveshack cabin.  LOL!

 

Katie and Sarah...sporting an original Cobblestone t-shirt...

And I don't even know how to describe this one!

 



 

Cobblestone Vacay 2013: Wednesday 5/30

Wednesday's menu:

Breakfast:  pancakes, bacon and apple cranberry juice
Lunch:  Hamburgers with buns and all the fixins :), French fries, pork n' beans, and banana cake
Dinner:

Wednesday's activities:

Shuffleboard tourney in the morning, we won one game, but lost the second game.  I even got a 10 in one of the games!  After lunch I went to the pool; Shawn and his parents went on a float trip.

 

 

Fling 'em tourney

 

Barrel train fun!  I rode in the front of the Kubota while Kat drove the kids on the barrel train!

 

 

Karaoke Night

Shawn and I sang our annual song "If I Had a Hammer"

 

A couple times throughout the day, I walked around the property and took photos I found interesting...

 

Cobblestone Vacay 2013: Tuesday 5/29

Tuesday's Menu:

Breakfast - scrambled eggs with ham, biscuits and sausage gravy, tomato juice
Lunch - Chicken and dumplings, peas and carrots, rolls, apple crisp
Dinner - Roast pork loin, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans, dressing, cranberry sauce, strawberry cheesecake

Tuesday's Activities:

At the morning tournament, we met a family that was new to Cobblestone....and they are from Newburgh, Indiana!!!  It was the weirdest thing.  Shawn was talking to them and asked them where they were from.  They said Indiana.  I heard that and told them we were from Indiana and asked what city.  They said Newburgh.  My mouth dropped open and I said "no way!  We are from Newburgh!"  I asked where in Newburgh they lived and they said off Sharon by Sharon Elementary.  I couldn't believe it, I told them, we live just down the road off of Martin and Sharon.  I had asked them where they heard about Cobblestone and they said they were on the internet looking up different vacations.  Later that evening I was asking them what they were looking at on the internet to find Cobblestone and asked if they had seen any reviews on Trip Advisor.  They had read my review!  Hee!  I think they asked Shawn what he did and he said he worked for WOW cable, phone and internet.  They immediately said "We knew that was you!"  I guess earlier in the day they were talking amongst themselves and they said they thought Shawn looked familiar and looked like that guy in the WOW commercial, but thought surely it wasn't him.  They even tried to find his commercial on the internet to see if it was him.  HAHA! What a small world!  The new family is the Bean's and they are super friendly!  I'm hoping we get to know they better and that we see them again next year at Cobblestone!

I spent the afternoon lounging by the pool while Shawn and his dad golfed.  Got a little sunburned. Oh yeah, and I played bocce ball this morning!

After dinner was bingo and silly games.  I won two games in bingo and won $3.40!

Silly games!

 I'm not really sure what the name of this game is, but it totally cracks me up each time we play it!  All of these old "nighty" style clothes are in a big orange bag and you pass it around to each person while music is playing.  When the music stops, the person that has it has to take an article of clothing out and put it on.  It's so funny to see what everyone pulls out to have to put on!

 

My prize for winning the Mexican Hat game!

 

And our messy little room!

  

  

Cobblestone Vacay 2013: Monday 5/28

We left early Monday morning for vacation.  I planned on leaving at 4:00 in the morning, but that didn't happen.  We were on the road by 6:30 a.m. and arrived at the St. Louis Zoo before 10:00 a.m.  We had a great time at the zoo; you can read about it here.

We left the zoo and headed towards Cobblestone.  As soon as we left the zoo, the rain started.  It rained the entire hour and a half drive to Cobblestone and it was a very hard rain.  At one point driving along the interstate, we hydroplaned and I was scared to death!  I had such a huge grip on the steering wheel the entire time, my hands were cramping!

Thankfully, we arrived at Cobblestone in one piece!  We checked in and headed to our cabin to unload the car and put everything away.  At 9:00, we had a wiener roast along with roasting marshmallows.