Wednesday September 14th, 2016
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| Crossing The Bridge From Memphis To West Memphis Arkansas |
Today we woke up in Hot Springs Arkansas. After eating breakfast and packing up the car we headed out for our adventure which started by driving to the top of the scenic lookout located near the downtown area. Our children were really impressed with the curves (which our daughter referred to as U-Turns) on the way up.
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| A View From The Top |
After stopping to explore some of the hiking trails and taking some pictures we headed back to the bottom and walked to the visitors center. Here we went on a tour of the old bath house and made our way to the hot springs for which the town is named. Believe me when I tell you the water in the holding pool of these springs is HOT! After checking these out we headed over to one of the water outlets in the area that allows its visitors the opportunity to drink some fresh, cold spring water. This water was some of the best tasting water I think I've ever had.
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| Emilee & Dakota Checking Out A Spring |
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| One Of The "Hot" Springs |
Once we finished checking out the attractions at Hot Springs, we headed over to the Crater of Diamonds State Park for a few hours of diamond mining. We managed to find some quartz, lava, jasper and mica. We weren't able to find any diamonds on this trip but we had a blast!
From here we headed back home so that we could take care of a few things that needed to be done before heading back to work on Monday. Our trip home was the second longest drive of the trip and we arrived safely back around 1:00 AM. In all our vacation covered about 1700 miles and took us through Missouri, Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. Although this vacation only lasted four days I'm sure the memories will last a lifetime.
- Any day in the outdoors is a good day
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