Thursday morning we headed out very early to drive to Hot Springs. What a beautiful drive descending out of the Ozarks. I would absolutely love to drive through the Ozarks again as the leaves are changing! We arrived in Hot Springs right at lunchtime. We ate at a place called The Purple Cow. We heard it was a neat place to eat.....um...not so much. It wasn't horrible but it was definitely over-hyped. But, as usual, from a kids point of view purple icecream is awesome!
We headed straight downtown and right to the hot springs to see if they really lived up to their name...THEY DO! They are HOTTT! We had a contest to see who could hold their finger in the water the longest. I lost big time. Ava won with somewhere near 10 seconds. The water is supposed to be about 140 degrees.
It was chilly in Hot Springs too so we found this drain grate and realized the hot springs water flowed under it. We were able to warm our hands up a lot!
We stumbled onto the visitor center which was a converted bath house from times past. They had left the inside mostly intact from what it used to look like and we were able to tour the entire building and see so much. All of us loved this place!
This was the women's dressing area for the spa.
After meandering through downtown, we headed to a cupcake shop called Fat Bottom Girls. Hilarious name I know. This place had been on Cupcake Wars sometime back. By the time we go there, they only had 4 flavors of cupcakes left for the day, so we just had one of each and gorged ourselves. Somehow, even with all of us sugar addicts, we weren't able to finish all four of them! They were really good though.
One thing we knew we wanted to do was go to this Magic/Comedy show so we went across the street and bought tickets for later that night. The kids were beside themselves with excitement! We drove through Hot Springs National Park, and then headed back to the hotel for about an hour of relaxing.
The magic show was a highlight of our trip! If you are ever in Hot Springs, make a point to go see this show! It's 1 1/2 hours long and worth every penny we spent. We bought our tickets early in the day, then got there an hour early to reserve where we wanted to sit....front and center! Elle was able to be a part of his show and being on the front row, Shawn and I did a few things too!
He was awesome and my kids have a new hero!
By the time we got back to the hotel is was 10 pm so everyone collapsed. We were quickly coming to the end of a perfect road trip!.
Friday morning we got up bright and early and ate breakfast and were swimming in the hotel pool by 7:45 am. The hotel pool was probably one of the kids most fun things of the trip.
After showering and packing, we began the long trip back to Tyler for one more night away from home.
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