Silver Dollar City
Branson, Missouri
March 25 & 26, 2011
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There's plenty to see and the hour long tour seems like a lot longer.  Yes there were coasters up on the surface but going underground and getting to experience Marvel Cave was something that Bond and I wouldn't miss.



While we walk down five hundred feet beneath the surface thankfully we don't have to walk all the way back up.  It's just a hundred feet up to the incline railway that Hugo Hirschend built in order to make it easier to tour the cave.  What's interesting is the city above used to be free and people used to pay for the cave.  Now people pay to get into the city and the cave is free.



Silver Dollar City has this nice incline railway that pulls you up out of the cave into the sunlight.  We had expected to come up and find thunderstorms that were predicted for the afternoon but we found a nice sunny and more importantly warm day.



As soon as the temperature finally climbed above the forty degree mark both Powder Keg and Wildfire started testing.  Bond and I had a blast kicking off our coaster season on Fire in the Hole and Thunderation but both of us were really itching to give Silver Dollar City's big boys a few rides.



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