[speaker001:] where'd you go on your last vacation
[speaker002:] yes Hot Springs Arkansas oh and it's beautiful it was great in fact we purchased land up there uh-huh yeah it's it's well it's not really time share it's just a lot
[speaker001:] hey did you one of those time share things
[speaker002:] it's really pretty up there in a place called Hot Springs Village it's
[speaker001:] I've seen the flyers on that that please come up and we'll give you a free turkey and a tank of gas or something something
[speaker002:] it's it's really nice yeah something like that we got three nights and four days up there so we went it was a nice way to get away
[speaker001:] had a guy in Sunday school that went and uh some some place in Oklahoma and they gave him twenty four rib eye steaks
[speaker002:] oh what a deal
[speaker001:] I said well did you buy anything he said no we just went up and got our steaks I said well
[speaker002:] no that's the way to do it you know
[speaker001:] well their daughter was on a weekend trip with church and and they said that was the only child they had so they up and they went got steaks and got out of town for a while
[speaker002:] might might as well well now we'd we really liked Hot Springs just because we neither of us had ever been there and it was it's a pretty town
[speaker001:] kind of retirement village kind of
[speaker002:] it's full of I was gonna say it's full of retirees and full of nursing homes and funeral homes but it's still a beautiful area
[speaker001:] yes yes yes yeah well you you know you're a true Texan when you go to a funeral and there's more pickups rather than cars
[speaker002:] well I wasn't born in Texas but I moved here when I was six months so yeah I I consider myself almost a true Texan
[speaker001:] that's awful you you can qualify well my wife was born in Mississippi during World War Two but that only because of the they were called up for duty so well we went to uh Estes Park Colorado last summer
[speaker002:] ooh oh oh now that would be nice
[speaker001:] which is a uh YMCA uh camp and we rented a cabin and uh a kitchen cabin and and
[speaker002:] oh yeah that that's that's the kind of vacations I like to do
[speaker001:] and they got all kinds of activities on campus so you just kind of get on there and let the kids go run wild
[speaker002:] what is the what kind of a cost do they have uh with that
[speaker001:] let's see we had a two bedroom one bath a fully equipped kitchen I mean all you bring is your food they even got coffee grinders and all that stuff
[speaker002:] uh-huh um
[speaker001:] uh what did we pay uh by the time you get everything on there it was about twenty eight bucks a night
[speaker002:] you're kidding oh that'd be wonderful we got to get there first and
[speaker001:] no but you well you got to make reservations yeah you got to join the club that's seventy five bucks for two years first then you go through the drawing and uh yeah it it it's you got to
[speaker002:] oh okay real expensive here hm
[speaker001:] there's more to it than that but but it's really nice and uh
[speaker002:] yeah and it's just through the local through the YMCA
[speaker001:] uh no you can if you're a member of the local YMCA you don't have to join the club up there
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] they they they somehow will accept that but you got to kick into the Y system to get out
[speaker002:] oh well yeah because we're in the the Garland Y
[speaker001:] but it it's a lovely place to go if you got kids even if you don't but
[speaker002:] so that would come in well yeah we have a two year old and a four year old
[speaker001:] well they've got things planned for that age group but it's all extra everything is extra once you get there
[speaker002:] well yeah the Colorado Colorado being a resort place I can kind of understand that but that's I love mountains when I went to Utah one time and I was just in heaven
[speaker001:] as I say it
[speaker002:] we got off the plane at the Air Force base and I was just yeah
[speaker001:] we saw the bighorn sheep come down
[speaker002:] ooh
[speaker001:] well they're Rocky Estes Park is right next to Rocky Mountain National Park
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] we tried four times and the last time before we came back they were crossing the road and going up the path they're ugly
[speaker002:] um oh oh
[speaker001:] we saw also saw a real big moose two moose came out of the hills into downtown Estes Park and were eating grass in a vacant lot this isn't little
[speaker002:] and you're going we're like in civilization here we're not out in the country oh how funny
[speaker001:] we were on a trolley anyway so you enjoyed Hot Springs has gambling casino gambling come to Hot Springs yet
[speaker002:] oh um no but they do have hay horse races at the Oaklawn tracks
[speaker001:] and bingo I bet you I bet
[speaker002:] I don't know about that but I'm sure they do with with the age group that's there
[speaker001:] I'm sure
[speaker002:] I would imagine they do but I know they have horse tracks that's why and they weren't running while we were there in September but they were doing simulcasts with Louisiana Downs
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] so they you can if you want to bet and that did draw a big crowd you could bet there year around
[speaker001:] legally oh are where are the are
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah no uh at the tracks they they they run
[speaker001:] I am you can bet in Dallas the year around
[speaker002:] well yeah but legally they the horses run there from like February to April so we're planning to be back the middle of February was like I wanna go back but it's it's in the mountains and I really like mountains I keep my husband had never been outside of Texas until he and I got married
[speaker001:] yeah huh
[speaker002:] and it was like let's go to Florida let's you know let's go to Florida and because we had a friends over there and that's a pretty area too we've been to Orlando a couple of times not to go to Disney World but just to go and do other stuff that's there
[speaker001:] if you like cabin cooking your own Robber's Cave State Park in Oklahoma is a neat deal
[speaker002:] oh I love it what is where is it
[speaker001:] Robber's Cave State Park
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] it's in Oklahoma about six hours from here
[speaker002:] yeah but see I'm a I I'm a Texan I I have a problem with Oklahoma well this is true Robber's Cave State Park
[speaker001:] I know I know we don't have mountains in Texas though and they got cabins and kitchen cabins and
[speaker002:] yeah see that's my parents go to they have I guess I got the buying land bug from them they've got a piece of property out on uh Lake of the Pines
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