Silver Dollar City overload

We had scheduled a trip to Silver Dollar City (SDC) for several weeks. Today was the big day, but to our surprise, it was everybodyelse's big day as well. Seems the Missouri St. John's/Mercy Hospital System gave out free tickets to people in their system. We were told that SDC averages 15,000 people a day. Today there were 45,000 people!

The park offers free parking but our over an hour trip the 8 miles to SDC led us through the park and out again. We were shown parking several miles from the park. A bus picked us up. When we made it to the ticket window, they told us that since they were over loaded, we were given free tickets for use after today and until the end of the year.

This was a busy place.

All the Joplin Mercy Hospital(the one destroyed by the tornado) folks, wore bright colored shirts that had a cool logo on the front saying: "Mercy & Joplin Rising!" and on the back:

"We are troubled;

yet not distressed.

We are perplexed,

but not in despair.

Persecuted

but not forsaken.

Cut down

but not destroyed."

2 Cor. 4:8

Very cool indeed!