Back to the trip… we left Friday morning with our Feefee in tow…it was a huge concern cause we didn’t know how she would handle the LONG car ride, but she handled it pretty well. We did have to make 2 stops for her, but that wasn’t too bad. She slept the majority of the time as did the kids. Tommy fell asleep as soon as we hit Rockwall (it’s like 5-10 minutes from the house) and Alyssa fell asleep near Texarkana. They didn’t bug too much about how long the drive was or asked if we’re there yet 10 million times like you see on TV. We were also concerned because Tommy can get car sick and we were hoping he wouldn’t – we gave him some car sickness medicine and he was all good. But the winding roads in Arkansas, did get me a little dizzy and nauseated. Well we had finally got there about 1 or so and decided to try and take a nap – well that’s not quite what happened – we became daycare for our nephews L oh well, right? We survived – I was grumpy but by the next day I was refreshed and ready to go and in a better mood J
Saturday after a nice and yummy breakfast we headed out to the Mountain Tower. The map said about 10 minutes but I think it took about 20 minutes – traffic on the way there was awful. It goes from two lanes to just 1! But we finally made it up there and it was just a really beautiful sight. We thought it would be hot up there, well cause it was in the 100’s that day, but surprisingly it wasn’t. It was a little warm but the nice breeze helped out a lot.
Right after the Tower we went on a Duck Tour. It’s a boat with a tour guide that says “quack” after just about every sentence. The kids fell asleep during part of it and every time I turned to see them Alyssa would mouthed out “I’m hungry” while rubbing her belly J it was already like 2 or 3 so I didn’t blame her for being hungry at that time. The tour finished right after we took a nice short tour on Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine. It was a nice little trip and we learned a little something. Alyssa remembered some of the fun facts that were told to us on the tour J
We then went to eat dinner. His mom, dad, grandma and Uncle went to eat elsewhere, while us “young folks” and our kids went to this spot I had read about. It had good reviews and supposedly good food. Well the food was good – after waiting for 2 hours for them to bring it out to us! Yes, we had to wait that long…supposedly it was because of the Tilapia that some of us had ordered – don’t really know how fish takes two hours to cook, but what can you do, you know? We complained and we didn’t leave a tip. The food was really tasty and everyone loved it – the service is what killed our experience. That was like our one bummer for the day. We know now, that if we’re ever in Hot Springs not to go to Jason’s Burgers – Lesson learned!
Sunday we had breakfast at the Hotel as we did the day before and then started to try and figure out where to go and what to do that day. My in-laws thought about renting a boat and Jose was going to call and get all the info. I thought it would be cool to go to the Alligator farm and watch them be fed at noon – Diana and Jose thought that it would be cool to see that too, so they wanted to go with us. Irene and Rock wanted to go to the Gangster Museum. Once we got back to our rooms we had found out info on the boat – max seats is 12 and we had 15 total with Baby James. So that option was out. Then we decided to go on the Belle Dinner cruise on Lake Hamilton. I called to make reservations and then got everyone’s orders and put them in. By the time we were done with this it was almost noon- we were going to miss the Alligator feedings so we changed plans and decided to go ride bumper boats, go –carts and play at the Arcade. Irene and Rocky decided to join us and they would do the Gangster Museum once we were done at this place. I loved this Arcade! I’ve never won so many tickets anywhere like at this place! It was awesome. Tommy won 133 tickets at one game, Damien won 200 tickets on another and RJ won 100 tickets at this other one…my poor Lyssa wasn’t as lucky as they were but she did win 40 tickets at one game…but we ended up with over 500 tickets, RJ almost 100 and Damien won over 700! We all did well there and had a fun time. It was scorching hot outside during mini – golf, but the kids had a blast. That’s what matters, right? J
We were kind of hungry and we knew that we wouldn’t be eating till after 7 so we decided to grab a “bite” to eat at Rod’s Pizza Cellar close to our hotel. Well we over did it and ate WAY too much! We were stuffed by the time we were done and would be eating again in about an hour! L We were so full…we got ready and went to the Belle… I’ve never been on a boat, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. The boat didn’t move too much or anything like that, it had a great view! The kids loved sitting next to the windows to see outside. We were still full from eating an hour and a half earlier, but had a nice surprise when they brought us our food -small portions! WOO-HOO! J We were on the boat for about 2 hours and then headed home. The kids went swimming for the last time and we called it a night.
The ride back was kind of long and Feefee didn’t need us to stop once! She slept almost the entire time. We did stop once but it was for us humans…and we let Feefee out for that. We finally got home and all we did was lay around at home and did a few loads of laundry.
Our trip was lots of fun and I can’t wait to plan our next one!
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