Autumn asks: Is Cherry Limeaide a color?

Apparently it is if you are a 12 year old girl with a new room to decorate.

When Songbird told me she wanted to paint her room green, I thought this was going to be a good thing. I love green! She loves green! But then I found out that the green she loves, and the green I love...are at opposite ends of the green color realm. Wow. When we went looking at paint chips, she kept pulling out this crazy florescent green that made my eyes cross. Are you SURE? Really SURE this is the color you want??? It will take MANY coats to paint over if you don't like it. You're SURE?

Yes, she was very sure. And, she wants to accent everything with cherry red. Really. Sounds kind of like a Christmas tree. Hmm. She insists this is what she wants. And we have NOTHING in these colors to work with. Great.

I bought the paint and went to work. Got the first coat on and shuddered. I had to wait a couple of days before beginning the next coat just to give my eyes a break. Then, as the second coat went on and began to dry...I began to like this new color. It looked good. How did she do that? And a cool side effect of the color was it brightened the hallway also just from the reflected light! That was pretty funny.

Next we had to find a bed for her little bitty room since we put old bed in Mighty Mouses room. Of course she picked a rather expensive daybed...that she understands she must use until the day she dies, so I get my money's worth. Brat.

Then we looked at what she already had, and bought a couple of cans of cherry red spray paint. The curtain rod, iron hook, square shelves from the bathroom, and her heart shelf all got a coat or two or three. It was coming together.


I had her watercolors from China framed.

We had already framed her horse ink print with some red velvet paper and a frame from Michaels -- that would go great.

Then I found a watercolor she did in art class of a branch or plant or something and slapped a cheap frame on that with some red poster board behind it.

And the best part was that her GS painting looks great with the green.


I have to share about the Girl Scout painting. In Nebraska GS's can sign up to work with a local artist once a year to make a piece of art that is auctioned off to raise money for the council. Songbird wanted to paint so she and 6 other girls were assigned to a painter. The girls picked a magazine photo that was then cut into 7 strips by the artist. Each girl was given a strip, the canvas and she chose her own paints from the artists supplies, and was sent home to work on their strip for a month- without ever seeing what the other girls were doing. Then we returned the canvas to the artist, and she put it all together and framed it. The neat part is that Songbird did one end, and her best bud did the other. At the auction Songbird tried to talk us into bidding on the painting, but it was just too expensive for our blood. But, a week after the auction I called the council and inquired about how much the painting went for out of curiosity. And wouldn't you know, it went for the starting price...but the person that bid had not picked it up. A few weeks later they called me and asked me if I wanted it for the list price. Songbird had a birthday coming up so I went ahead and bought it. I can't even begin to describe the screams of surprise and delight when she unwrapped it. Now she owns this piece of art with her best buds work on it also. Really neat.

Anyways, now we had an idea of what to shop for. So we took a trip to Ikea. I find it funny how American's love Ikea. We shopped at them overseas. I don't think most people here know that Ikea is pretty much Kmart overseas. Really. Anyways, we found a $4 red trash can, a $12 comforter cover and some red pillows for next to nothing.

And this is Bo...her baby. That sleeps on her bed. Under the covers. Doesn't he look like a rat?

I digress. Then we found a green CD holder at the outlet mall (Bombay Company) and 2 more little CD holders for $1 each at Gardenridge.


We also hung her silk umbrella and found a red paper lantern from China.


The window I did spend some money on. JCPenney has this line called the "carwash" line. If you look at the curtain it looks like the strips of fabric from a drive-thru car wash. She really like that so I went ahead and got them when they were having a 50% off sale.



Not nearly as cheap as Mighty Mouses room because of the bed. And I have to admit that I don't look forward to having to cover that color up when we move...but it did turn out rather cool. Nice job kid.

Now if I could just get her to keep it cleaned up.....

Thank you Heidi!!

Every year I put together a photo book of Mighty Mouse to send back to her orphanage. Then I find a family traveling to pick up their new baby and ask if they will hand carry the book to orphanage. I don't trust the mail.

This year Heidi agreed to take MM's book (and let others know that she would be happy to take others if anyone wanted them to). They are in China right now adopting their little boy. The neat thing is that this is a military family also and they had to wait a little longer than some for the husband to return from the desert and be able to travel with the rest of the family to pick up their new son.

Heidi posted this little link on their travel site. MM's book is the one in the middle being held by the directors assistant. The wonderful director is on the left.

Autumn asks: How do you do a kids room on a budget?

Moving around so much has one advantage...the kids barely have time to get tired of the way their room is decorated! So they do get to change things up every few years. But, money is always rather short during a move (geeesshh the expenses of a move!!). We have to get rather creative in order to pull off a room that the kids will like and not look like the Goodwill project it usually is! LOL!

So today I am sharing Mighty Mouses room. Hers is a little different than any of the other ones we have done because we brought home these incredible watercolor folk paintings from China. The colors are so cool! I have a bunch for all over the house as they cost about $5 (but we won't discuss what it costs to have them framed!!).

MM didn't have her own room in Nebraska. She went straight into Songbirds room as we were in a 3 bedroom house, and with her coming out of an orphanage I didn't want to stick her somewhere alone.

When we moved to Texas we bought a house with enough rooms for everyone. Now I had the chance to do MM's room and wanted to use the Chinese art before she got old enough to want to decorate herself and make me take them down - LOL! But then I had a dilemma...what color can I paint the walls to go with all these colors???? (Note: half of her artwork is professionally frames and half is just poster board for matts with an album/scrapbook $5 frame.)



So, armed with pictures I searched high and low and collected at least a million paint chips/cards to try and figure it out. The reds and blues were very masculine. Black - no. Yellow - I really, really can't stand yellow (that was the color my mom decorated our room in when I was growing up...I got sick of it). Maybe the purple?

In the end we ended up with .... ORANGE. EEEWwwww! I don't really like orange. Okay, I don't hate orange (like yellow), but orange??? It's a very light, creamy orange, but I went ahead and bought the paint knowing I could just paint over it. Live a little! Give it a try!

And it worked.


Okay, the color isn't exact on the computer screen...but as you can see, it is a very very light orange. I call it orange cream. And no, the lady bug is not Chinese. I picked it up in San Antonio last month on our Seaworld trip...isn't it cute?

Back to the room. Now I had to figure out bedding and curtains. With orange. Think that is easy? Sure, if I was going to spend some big money I could have gone with an Indian Silk set or something, but otherwise there wasn't a lot of orange out there when I was looking. So I called in the expert....my mom.

We searched high and low. We gave up. So my mother says why don't we make a bedspread?
"You can do that?"
"Didn't I make Songbird and both her cousins crib sets?"
"Why yes, you did."

Of course in this little town there are only 2 real sewing shops as I know them. Joannes and the other one (why is the name slipping my mind) that was going out of business. And we took our paint sample and found something in the clearance stuff! Again, not something I would have ever looked for. And grandma made a two-sided bedspread that can be used either way.


Then, on our long girl vacation I took the scraps to grandma and we finally finished it all out by making a valance. I had ordered a shelf/curtain rod for the kitchen and when it came in it was orange!! I was supposed to be oak colored! It was soooo not! So I painted it and put it in MM's room. I'll use the same paint, watered down to make a wash, on the dresser I just moved out of Bones old room and put into hers. Yet another project.

And that is the story of MM's room. I'm not going to give a total shot as I just rearranged everything and all the artwork needs to be rehung to new heights and fixed to look balanced.

She'll make me change it when we move from here. Her favorite color is purple...so I'm sure we will have a very purple princess room.

Next I'll show you a fun teen room. All HER doing. She calls it the Cherry Limeaide room.

Autumn asks: How did you and your spouse meet?

Sandra over at Diary of a SAHM did this questionnaire yesterday and asked her readers to join her. Here are my answers.



1. Who is your man?
Dion, a SMSGT in the United States Air Force, a lover of extreme metal music (mostly Christian now-a-days), a man that loves his family, is a thinker and almost always looks like he's frowning if you don't know him, takes his responsibilities very seriously, loves his country, loves mopars and is waiting very pateintly to be in a position to pick up a junker and restore it.

2. How long have you been together?
24 years

3. How long dated?
Just over a year...and several of those months he was away at boot camp and tech school.

4. How old is your man?
He is 40 years old

5. Who eats more? Him

6. Who said "I love you" first?
I honestly don't remember.

7. Who is taller?
Definitely him, he's 6'0 and I'm only 5'5

8. Who sings better?
Him. I sing really, really bad. That's why we try to sit next to loud singers in church...so no one can hear me! LOL!

9. Who is smarter?
Lets just say we both have our strong subjects and our weak ones.

10. Whose temper is worse?
His

11. Who does the laundry?
I do - but there was a time in life when I worked full time that he did it.

12. Who takes out the garbage?
First choice would be whichever kid is assigned. Then its his turn. I fall in that line last.

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed?
He does

14. Who pays the bills?
I do -- can any current military wife say they don't? If they do I'll show you a husband that never deploys.

15. Who is better with the computer?
Him

16. Who mows the lawn?
He does - now that our son has moved out!

17. Who cooks dinner?
Depends. If I don't cook, he does. He's a GOOD cook. And he has control issues about his food.

18. Who drives when you are together?
He does

19. Who pays when you go out?
He does - I have no money!

20. Who is most stubborn?
Me

21. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong?
He is - I have issues.

22. Whose parents do you see the most? Mine. They even came to see us when we lived in Iceland.

23. Who kissed who first?
It was a mutual thing

24. Who asked who out?
He asked me out

25. Who proposed?
He did

26. Who is the most sensitive?
He is.

27. Who has more friends?
I do. I'm more trusting of people in general.

28. Who has more siblings?
He does. 2 with the same parents and 6 half brothers/sisters. I just have one sister.

29. Who wears the pants in the family?
He is the boss. He is the boss. He is the boss. :)

30. How did you meet?
I worked with his friends and there was a Kiss/Ratt concert coming up and his friend said they were going and I should sit with his friend since he didn't have anyone to sit with and I didn't have a ride. The rest is history.

Autumn Asks: Has your summer officially ended?

Ours did, as of today. It makes me sad. I really enjoy having the kids home with me in the summer. When we homeschooled I loved having them at home. But Songbird was ready to go back to school. She waited anxiously for a week and couldn't wait to get out to the bus stop.

We sure had a wonderful, busy summer. Lots of fun and memories this time to be sure. And I'm so glad that Songbird got to go to church camp this year. And the beach house with her Girl Scout troop. And our girl road trip. And our family vacation to San Antonio. I'm actually double glad since we returned to financial difficulties that we weren't expecting. If we had known what was coming we would not have taken the vacations. Fall is looking way too tight, so I'm glad the girls got to have a fun summer to remember.

This year is the first year I have heard so many other mothers say they weren't ready for their kids to return to school. It's a new location and different friends, and it is a refreshing and wonderful change. Even the best of mom's I know are usually so ready for the kids to get back on that bus.

Are we all slowing down along with the economy and enjoying family more? Have I just started making friends with a different set of people? (Not that I didn't have ANY friends that enjoyed having their kids home, they just happened to be the minority.)

I'd say it was age related...but most of these new friends are younger than me by more than just a couple of years. And some are even older.

Whatever the answer is, I am really enjoying being able to say aloud that I'm not ready...without others thinking I'm crazy.

And after debating and fighting with myself every single day this summer, I declined the pre-k the school recommended I put Mighty Mouse in. She will still go up to the school for some "speech therapy" a couple of times a week. I just could not go against my gut. She's come so far since February that I am afraid to set her back! Pre-K in our district is all day, 5 days a week. Wow. Mighty Mouse is still not even done with napping off and on.

And this was a very hard thing to not do with our finances in such a mess. The easiest thing in the world would be to put her in pre-k and go to work. And she would survive. But would she thrive? Would she LOVE it? Or would she withdraw and close in on herself again? Would she end up hating school and affecting her whole school career (been there, done that)?

But now I am looking ahead and realizing that this is my last year at home with Mighty Mouse. I was going to keep her out of Kindergarten until the legal age, but I no longer think that is going to be necessary. God has been so good to us since we found our church. The times MM has spent in Sunday school, AWANA and Monday Mornings has been really healing for her. She is catching up to her peers now. She is still significantly behind socially, but I think by next fall all of this will be nothing more than a memory and a triumph.

Only a year left to just be a mommy. Then I will get to try my hand at something all new....being a college student. I'm doing things a little backwards in my life compared to others....and loving every minute of it.

Autumn asks: Moms, are you ready for Make-Up?

Really, I'm not.

Anyone that has a little girl knows that the, "When can I wear make-up?", question comes up early. That's if you are lucky...a lot of little girls just start wearing it without asking the question, as they pass it among their friends and swap all kinds of nasties like pink eye and other green and yellow oozing messes. Gross.

Songbird wanted to join her friends in the wearing of make-up in the 5th grade. And when she said "everyone is doing it!!" she wasn't far off. So we were the big, bad, mean parents that said no. Not even over my dead body. Why would you be trying to attract male attention in the 5th grade??

At that point I made the the comment to talk to me in Jr. High. So Jr. High arrived last year and I said that she could start wearing make-up in 8th grade, but not this year. Well, let me back that up, I did let her start wearing clear mascara.

And now, 8th grade is tomorrow.

And don't you know, after church, in the car, the whole subject came up on how tomorrow she could start wearing eyeliner. Too bad you'll have to wait until payday before we can go find that coveted stick of eyeliner.

But wait!! Friends to the rescue!!! One of her good friends bought her make-up for her birthday! And there is even an eyeliner! BLACK! Oh joy!!!

So, knowing my colorful child (and seeing her character on Rock Band), I had visions flashing through my head. Like this...



Okay, maybe this is a little extreme. But I'm a mom...that's how the pictures roll.

Dad is not enjoying the conversation at all. He keeps pointing out how mom doesn't wear make-up and that is how he likes it. That is what looks normal.

So now I know I have to step up and do something. It's not her fault her mother has skin that doesn't tolerate make-up or much of anything else very well. Fortunately, she did not inherit that from me. But at 13 I don't want her going overboard and looking all made-up either. So I tried to start explaining a few things to her. And in this conversation I realize I am failing because she has already been schooled by someone else...who is probably her age and just as clueless.

So I tell DH that there is a change in plans (we were all getting ready to go to the grocery store for a weeks worth of meal shopping on the way home from church). Drop the girls and I at the mall, and you do the shopping while I take care of the make-up. He actually did it.

So I took Songbird into Dillard's because I knew they carried Clinique. If you are going to do it, do it right. (This is actually one of the only brands that I can tolerate...which is why I don't wear make-up...who can afford it???)

There was a wonderful young lady that I told I needed eye liner and a very neutral shadow along with lessons for a newbie. This lady was so wonderful. She taught Songbird how to choose colors, how to apply and remove and gave her some other tips. Songbird was also very impressed with her twenty-something make-up and neat eyeliner trick to turn up the corners of her eyes. Not yet kid.

She looked good. Really good. Very natural yet enhancing. (I'm going to skip on a picture as she isn't thrilled about me blogging on this in the first place.) My daughter left the store looking a few years older with only eye shadow and liner. I've nixed the blush and base as she has skin to die for at this point in her life. Her haul today looked like this:


I can't believe it, but its done. Whoa.

(And yes, when we got in the car dad's only comment was, "You look better without it." Men.)

Autumn asks: Whats for dinner?

We emptied the freezer and are out of the planned meals we had. With having to pay off a bill for Bones and pay his half also on registration/tuition, grocery money is, well, more than a little low. So it was one of those...uuuhhhh, what can we have for dinner? Luckily the pantry came to the rescue, even though it is almost bare.

I fixed up a pot of mixed bean soup that I had the beans for. I added what veggies I could scrape up out of the fridge and the leftover pork chops from last night. Turned out really good. Also had some barley to throw in it. Too bad it wasn't a cold night...

Since soup is rarely something that is hearty enough for DH, I also made a batch of Green Chile and Cheese bread. I tweaked a normal recipe for the bread machine and let it go. Turned out great! I had 2 pieces -- so much for not eating any wheat.

We also had two banana's going bad so I found a recipe in my "to-try" folder for banana and coconut cake. I put it in a bundt pan and the other half in a bread pan. We followed-up dinner with the bread pan portion and I'll take the bundt to a cookout we are going to tomorrow.

So for having nothing to eat, we sure ate good tonight. Don't know why I was in such a cooky mood. But when you are down to being creative it always required much more real cooking anyways.

The only drawback is that my built-in dish washer is spending the night at a friends house.

I do so hate any kind of clean up in the kitchen.

Drats.

Autumn asks: Why do we allow so many mandatory shots????

Why? Because if we didn't the "at risk" population (those that don't have health insurance or are just flat uneducated, or illegal, or poor, etc.) would make us all sick if the government didn't force this crap into our bodies. That's the reasoning anyways. I'm not convinced.

Is Autumn anti-vaccine? Well, lets see, she has worked for several different doctors that won't let their own children be vaccinated. She has a good friend with a son that has vaccine induced autism. She has known of military members that have had anthrax and other crap forced on them and end up in the hospital or disabled from that point forward.

ANYWAYS! Mighty Mouse was due for her 4 year shots. I don't like it, but as a military dependent there really isn't a whole lot you can do about it...especially if you ever get overseas orders. So I was prepared for the 5 shots she was supposed to have, that I had put off until after our vacations. I also am one to ask that she be given the shots "unbundled" to avoid their hidden mercury. (There seems to be no escaping the aluminum.)

45 minutes after our set appointment time we are called back. Hmm...turns out she needs 7 shots, not just 5. WHAT? Are you kidding me? And to make a long story short, after some back and forth with the doctor, I allowed 4 of the shots and will return at later dates for the others.

So now I have a kid with a raging fever...that HATES medicine and will not take the Motrin or Tylenol. I hate those meds too, but they are the lesser evil in this case.

Add to that seeing a friend last night that asks me about the HPV shot and whether Songbird has had it. Not just NO but ... well you get the picture. I fought the ped on that one too. PEOPLE, just do an internet search! DEATH, blindness, all kinds of neurological effects - they are listed at the CDC site. This shot is full of aluminum, which crosses the blood/brian barrier! But what about all the 5 years of studies? Oh, the ones done by the company producing the vaccine and NOT TESTED ON CHILDREN? Also, the death stats on the cancer in question are almost non-existent in developed countries unless the person does not get their routine pap.

Moving on.

My real purpose of this post, after 2 miserable days with a sick 4 year old that can not be comforted, is to tell you about a book I recommend. The book is called "Sweet Deception". It is actually about artifical sweetners, but that is not what I want you to get out of this. The book explains WHO pays the FDA, the processes our FDA goes through to approve meds and food substitutes or genetically engineered foods, etc. EVERYBODY should know this. Everything changed in the 1980's when they wanted to push through the AIDS drugs quicker to help more people. So their hearts were in the right place, but the method is shocking. Now the companies asking for the approval have to pay for it since there aren't enough government funds to support all the requests (maybe some of that money that is going to illegal immigrants could be funneled that direction????). Conflict of interest in the best case, biting the hand that feeds you if you deny a request. And guess where the studies come from? The people with the request. WHAT?

I got the book through intra-library loan. I recommend everyone get it and skim through it for all the parts on our FDA. It will educate you in a way you didn't know you needed to be educated in.


And now back to a whinning, crying four year old with an attitude.

Autumn Asks: Hatch Green Chile Anyone??

Now you get to learn about a strange ritual I brought to my marriage.

My mother's father was career army, but settled in New Mexico. He was originally from Texas and my grandmother was also (or maybe it was New Mexico, can't remember). Anyways, they loved Tex/Mex food. The good stuff...not Taco Bell or whatever. So, my mother grew up with a love of this same food, and passed the love on to my father (who was also career army and stationed at White Sands, where they met). So all growing up, all over the states and such, I remember my parents making trips to the farms in New Mexico for green chile about Labor Day. It didn't happen every year - like when we were in Germany - but it is a childhood memory I have.


So I grew up, and not having learned my lesson, married Air Force. Now I have carried the green chile ritual to even more places. I remember the commissary in Iceland getting a batch, which I snatched up and spent an entire day roasting and freezing. We lived in apartments and no one could figure out what that smell was and where it was coming from. Also, living in Nebraska, I would call the Ruiz farm in New Mexico and they would ship me 40 pounds. I'd then spend 2 days roasting, peeling and freezing. It is a labor of love.

My parents have moved on to Arkansas now, and we are back in Texas. Our local grocery store gets Hatch Chile so my parents are on their way over to put up 5 cases. Saved a two day trip to New Mexico!

I picked up our chile yesterday and have begun the process. Uh, the hot is HOT this year...DH is bringing me home a mask to wear so I don't burn any deeper into my sinus'. I found gloves also as my hands were on fire all night...and taking out my contacts was not a pleasant experience.

At the store I was asked by several people what I do with that chile? Everyone was interested as they roast it for you there and the smell is heavenly. My answer: Green Chile Dip (the bestest), green chile cucumbers, green chile stew, green chile salsa, green chile and cheddar bread, green enchalada's, added to eggs, hamburgers and sandwiches and several other mexican dishes. I love it. I even made up my own creation of a green chile sandwich - just add chile and sour cream to so thick bread and eat it!

So the process looks like this:

Buy Your chile:












If your store has a roaster - have them do it!! It saves hours and hours! If not, take it home and roast it yourself. This means getting out cookie sheets (I have specific ones just for this because they get black and ugly) and putting a single layer of chile on it. Have the broiler on and put the rack all the way to the top and stick the pan underneath it. You want to burn the skin so it turns black and bubbles. Then take the chile out and turn it. Repeat until you have burned the surface the best you can.
















When the chile it cool enough to handle, peel and seed. Pull out the veins the seeds are on also as they contain lots of heat. We are more about the chile flavor than the heat around here.

















Now you can cook with the chile or put them in freezer bags to freeze. Not a hard job...but very time consuming when you buy 40 pounds!

And the first use of this batch? Green Chile dip! Man was it good. Bones, my mom and I pretty much wiped it out!

4-5 green chile
large sour cream
dried or fresh onion, finely grated, 1-2 tbs
garlic salt, to taste
white or black pepper, to taste
Worchestershire sauce, to taste (1-3 tsp)
Vinegar, to taste ( we use a combination of spicy and rice)

Cut up chile, add all ingredients and chill for an hour to let flavors blend.

THE BEST. Tastes just as good with pretzels as with chips (thanks Christie).

Autumn asks: What does your name mean?

What Autumn Means

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. (So not true...give it a try and have fun...and if you tried, you win.) You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. (Hmmm....maybe....not sure how aggressive I would call myself.) You have the classic "Type A" personality. NO You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way. (Yes and No. When I'm lucky, I'm lucky, but I sure am not exempt from being unlucky!) And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life. (Pretty much true. Prayer helps alot also.) You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. (So true) You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. (Travel...yes - but home is best.) You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. (Yep) You are confident, self assured, and capable. You are not easily intimidated. (Pretty much) You master any and all skills easily. You don't have to work hard for what you want. (Hah!! So not true.) You make your life out to be exactly how you want it. And you'll knock down anyone who gets in your way! (Not so much...I don't like knocking anyone down.) You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. (I'd like to think so but not so sure this is true.) You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. That's a fact. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. (I stink at interpreting - I'm a "give it to me straight and say what you mean" kind of person.)

Now you give it a try. Click on the link to find out the meaning of your name.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Autumn asks: Isn't coming home the best part of vacation?

We are home!!

Sea World was HOT.
Swimming was great.
Riverwalk was great.
Children's Museum was fun for Mighty Mouse -- boring for big sister.
Dinner with family we rarely see was great.
Eating all the things I'm not supposed to (and didn't on my first vacation) was heavenly.

And now its time to return to the real world.

House is a mess. Loads and loads of laundry. Getting kids back on schedule. I'm beat!

LOVE coming home.

Autumn asks: Vacation photos anyone?

I thought I would post some of our vacation photos. I really don't have that many at the moment since I used my 35mm for the good stuff.

Here we are, Autumn, Mighty Mouse and Songbird, perched on the van, ready to head out on our girl adventure.








And here we are at one of our lunch stops along the road.

















Songbird worked with her grandmother to make her friend a teddy bear. Too bad we don't live closer...I think we would have a new seamstress on our hands.







One of the lakes at Hot Springs Village. If you wait until 6:00-7:00 pm there is almost no one there and its not too hot.







Ok. Seriously.