Now don't be fooled into thinking we got to spend the day lounging at a lush hot springs resort. In fact it was quite the opposite, as we toured the park's grounds in the coldest Arkansas weather to date, clutching a hot drink for warmth and wishing we had put on thicker coats.
Widely known as one of the purest hot springs in the world, the water here (which was once rain) takes so long to travel through the hot springs system that when it comes out it is over 4,400 years old. This means that not only is the untreated water pure enough to drink (It was hot and good) but that health-seekers for 100 years have proclaimed its healing properties. Physicians in the early 1900's even wrote prescriptions for it.
This beautiful town with a "mountainside" (they still refer to it as a mountain though time has eroded it down to more of a large hill) and 47 distinct hot springs has another special attraction-Bill Clinton. His family moved to Hot Springs when he was in the second grade.
In the evening we watched The Master. Unusual for us we were divided on this one, Isaiah liked it and I just couldn't get into it.
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