Shoji Tabuchi & Green Bay football

We hung around the motorhome in the morning and caught our breath after the moves the last couple days.  It felt good to just take it easy and do nothing.  We finally had to get out and find a post office to mail a letter and that got us off our duffs.

We attended the Shoji Tabuchi show many years ago and really enjoyed it and have tried to see it again the past couple trips to Branson.  It never worked out since he wasn't at the theatre a couple times and sold out the last time.  We lucked out today and bought two tickets to the show for tonight's performance.

For those who aren't familiar with him, he is from Japan and loved Country music enough to come to the U.S. and strike out on his own to make it big here.  He had a country band in Japan and they won some contests and were very popular, but he felt he had to make it in the U.S.  He bounced around a few years and finally settled in Branson, MO and played the fiddle in a local music theater and then opened his own 2000 seat theater and has become highly successful.

Taiko drum worth over $300,000

Shoji Tabuchi

Shoji & dau Christina

2 best dancers in show.

Shoji has a small band and a few singer/dancers and they are a very talented group.  The two above were very good dancers and head and shoulder above the others.  Some cast members were actually ushers before the show started.  

The theater is well know for having the most lavish bathrooms anywhere in the U.S.   The men's room has a fireplace and a billiard table with seating around it.  The bathroom fixtures are all black and luxurious looking.  Until recently women would go into the men's room just to see the fixtures.  At least, that is what the women would say.  Now they have a sign that says gentlemen only.

We enjoyed the show, but liked it better the first time we saw him many years ago.  Of course seeing it for the first time is always the best.  

The theater was a little over 1/2 full and we were surprised it wasn't full like it has been in the past.  It does attract an older crowd and I think we were among the younger people there.  The show started at 7:30 pm and lasted until a few minutes before 10pm.  It moved along quickly and was very entertaining.

After the show we were hungry and wound up ordering to go at a Taco Bell restaurant.  For a change, we enjoyed the meal and renewed our faith in Taco Bell.  

We got back to the motorhome in time to watch the last few minutes of the Green Bay Packers - Seattle Seahawks football game.  What I saw of the games ranks right up there with the poorest officiated game of all time.  The final play had a blatant offensive pass interference call that wasn't made and an obvious interception by the Packers that was awarded to the Seahawks because one player put his arm around the Packer player and grabbed the ball.  Even after the replay, they awarded the touchdown to the Seahawks and that was the winning score.  I think this game and the bad calls in games over the weekend will finally get the owners off the dime and settle the strike with the real football referees.  BTW:  I am not a Packers fan, but hate to see anyone get robbed like that.

On a more pleasant note, we managed to find 3 caches today in a short time period and went over 1100 finds since we started 3 years ago.  We are on a roll.  

That was our day, how was yours?