Saturday
The storms continued to roll thru the area in the morning and by noon they were done. Blue skies and sun for the rest of the day. Notice – no boats – everyone took them out of the water because of the storms.
The geese returned:
One note on the storms: This same front continued eastward where it did considerable damage and lives were lost. Please keep those people in your prayers.
We took a little ride to Mount Ida to check out some of the crystal shops and the location of the Arrowhead Mine (where we will be on Monday – :-). I was able to pick up some oxalic acid at Judy’s Crystals. I need it to clean the crystals I dug up in 2008 and hopefully some of the crystals we will get on Monday. Judy and her husband were great on giving me the recipe and some hints on cleaning.
Back at the motor home, we enjoyed the rest of the afternoon and evening. Dusty was out with us for quite a while – this is what he does when he gets back in – LOL!!
And another great campfire evening – with our neighbors joining us.
Sunday
Today we decided to check out Hot Springs National Park. Part of this park is in downtown Hot Springs. The flowers on Bathhouse Row were really blooming:
This is the Fordyce Bathhouse which has been restored. The National Park visitor center is also here. So we spent some time there touring the rooms, exhibits and seeing their movies – great place.
One of the baths:
The steam room:
The needle shower:
The ladies changing room:
The music room – check out the stained glass ceiling:
Some of the bath houses are still operating – very tempting.
The Grand Promenade:
There are 47 hot springs here but most are capped to protect them from pollution.
There are a number of fountains around town – some hot, some cold, some hot then chilled and all are free so we filled our jug for coffee for the next few days – :-)).
We also stopped for lunch at Grandma’s Restaurant where I had some great Gumbo – mmmmmmm!!
From there we did the mountain scenic loop and stopped at the Mountain Tower. This tower was originally built in the early 1900’s as part of draw to the Hot Springs. It has been rebuilt a few times and is still open.
Views from the top:
Back home, we sat around the campfire and watched the turtles watching us. If you look under the black lines, you can see their heads:
The two white spots are the turtles watching us:
Life doesn’t get any better than this!
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