Magic Springs at Hot Springs, Arkansas

Long weekends, don't you just love them. We left Saturday afternoon and headed to my sister-in-law's house in Little Rock. Nicole invited us to stay and spend the weekend with her and go to Magic Springs in Hot Springs. Two back to back days of Magic Springs is very exhausting but fun! If you all remember, I mentioned the 13 year old PMS... Saturday was very rocky, Sunday was touch and go and by Monday she was happy and having a good time. We left Little Rock last night at 9PM and finally made it home about 11PM. The rain started at Nicole's apartment when we left last night, by the time I was on the 440 crossing Arkansas River we were putting at 40 mph because the rain was so hard. #1, I DO NOT LIKE TO DRIVE AT NIGHT and #2 I HATE HATE HATE DRIVING IN THE RAIN. I survived. We drove with no radio playing...that about killed those two kids! The rain stopped at mile marker 180 just before Carlisle. Enjoy a few pictures!

Mary Margaret rode a few of the baby rides with her little sister Alyssa. I love this picture just because the name fits Mary Margaret so well! (I rode a few of the baby rides with the girls too, the advantage to owning the camera...not many pictures of myself!!!)
Mary Margaret and Nicole on the Hawk. This ride is a free fall that makes a complete circle. I do not do the upside down rides. Mary Margaret and Nicole loved this ride! Look at those cheesy smiles.

This is the Log Ride, I like this ride! Mary Margaret and Taylor in the log ride. Nicole, Alyssa and I were in the next log. Too bad there was no one to take our picture!
This is the Gauntlet Roller Coaster. Taylor and Nicole..can you see the excited look on their faces? Taylor was a little worried and forced a smile.
Alyssa and I rode the scariest rides. We got really brave and rode the carousel. Oooo Ahhh The name of the horse is Molly. She names all animals Molly.
Okay. I rode one roller coaster called Big Bad John. That is me with my hands up.
We were all able to ride the Dragon. Free fall ride that DOES NOT TURN UPSIDE DOWN. Front row: Taylor Alyssa and Nicole, next row: Mary Margaret and Me. There is also a water park inside Magic Springs. I did not take my camera to the water park. The girls and I did the water race slide a bunch. I can tell you this, I won each time. Why? Fat girls travel far and fast! The girls and Nicole did the body slides (not me!) Those things curve one time and the plumett straight down. I did slide on some of the open slides so that I could see where I was going. I played with Alyssa in the kiddie pool while the body sliders were off sliding. We did the Lazy River, Wave Pool, and the Pool with the bubbles. This next picture is the 6 Racing Slides that I was talking about earlier!

The purple and blue slides are the body slides that Nicole and the girls did.
I made Nicole take a picture of me and the girls in front of Olive Garden. (Mary Margaret in the Yellow, Taylor in the Brown, I don't who that person is in the middle, ha ha) This would be by far the most expensive place that I have eaten with the girls. I will probably not take them back, I'll go again with no kids. I loved their salad and bread sticks. The girls felt very grown up when we sat down at the table and there were wine glasses on the table. Nicole told the girls that the wine glasses were for wine samples that the waiters bring around. Mary Margaret said " Great! I try them all!" Oh really? I don't think so! No one ever asked if we wanted to sample the wine.

We decided that since we were going to go back to Magic Springs again on Monday, we would stay in Hot Springs Sunday night. We split the cost of a hotel room and stayed. We had a great 'mini' vacation.