Branson - Good for the Stomach ...and the Soul :D

I’m still not feeling well really, but I’m much better off now than I was 3 days ago. Perhaps it’s the magical property of sushi :D So, I woke up this morning to the deep vibrations of my cell phone. Mom was calling from the road; they hadn’t found anything for a good birthday present in town and decided to go to Branson. And of course, she wanted me to come along with her. So, I rolled myself up and outta bed and got ready. They had to refill some medicine and it’d take about an hour so, I was good for that long. I ate a bit of breakfast and got dressed and all that.

We needed to go to Bath&Bodyworks, which is on Branson Landing. Branson Landing is just off the highway, an outdoor strip of shops where with a center lane only big enough for the trolly (which is free to ride) patrols up and down. Bath&Body (along with several other stores) are in this little strip. We hit the bath and body first. We got our gift (plus... a little something extra), and then we were on our way up and down the strip just to see what there was to see. Tons of restaurants were there, not to mention the normal chain stores like Pac Sun and such.

Then I spent some money -..- There was this lovely store, one I’ve seen here and there and loved to walk through but never bought anything from. It’s called EarthBound Trading Company. They have a lot of cultural items (old Egyptian, Indian, and Japanese) and there are rocks. Any place where I can look at and possibly buy rocks is a great place. Well, they had these huge rock book ends, and they were marked down. I got a pair of blue ones and they cost $19.15...they had previously been $49.99 O..O so yeah, I made out like a thief there.

Mom and Aunt Carolyn got something from the Bath Junkie store. I probably would’ve liked it, but Mom spent enough on me at Bath&Bodyworks so I didn’t bother to ask for anything. Then....we went to Sushi House.

Sushi House is the place I told ya’ll I went to back when Mom and I had our little browse-about Branson day a while back (probably in early December). I had swiped one of their to-go menus, but I hadn’t eaten there. Well, there were chef specials too, so we took a look at those. We had the crunch rolls and the yum yum rolls....and they were both very yum-yummy ^..^ The Crunch roll was much like Zen’s Crunchy roll, only the sauce that they put on it (if it is eel sauce) is not as bad as Zen’s eel sauce. Zen’s sauce was tangy and a bit too salty, but this one was almost sweet, and it just absorbed into the crunches lightly flavouring them and the accenting the crab meat and avocado inside. The Yum Yum roll was fried shrimp, avocado and a tiny bit of cream cheese, toped with stringy crab meat.....it was delicious, and a strange opposite to the crunch roll. Some time, perhaps after I start working and can afford to just go off to Branson some time on my own, I’d like to go there and just get a sushi sampler for myself so I can try all their sushi (as opposed to eating 2 rolls every time I go).

According to my research, there are 4 sushi places in Branson, but two are on that strip that we were on. The two we’ve seen are The Sushi House and then there’s the Wasabi - Japanese Steak and Sushi Bar (the two we haven’t seen yet are Japanese Steak Sushi & Cocktail Lounge and Shogun). I did pop into Wasabi for a menu to go, but in my opinion Sushi House will be better, because Wasabi has a menu full of things you can get like soups and noodles and chicken and steak and all that, and it comes with a paper devoted to their sushi. Sushi house is nothing but sushi, and sushi done well. So, in the end, the place that specialises in sushi will be better at it...I think. It was a slightly biased opinion, as I’d just been wowed over the Sushi House’s sushi. Mom says we’ll have to go to Wasabi next time (because for her Sushi just isn’t enough), so I’ll just have to wait and see. Maybe Dad will be able to go with us next time.

Yes, Dad is safely offshore so, he did not partake of this outting....I don’t know that he would’ve much enjoyed it if he had gone along. But I do know that he would’ve enjoyed being there rather than being at work.
Well, we’re off to church. I’ll talk later, Sunshines.

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