Plans tomorrow made today our last chance to walk around Hot Springs, AR. It was a beautiful day even if it was a bit breezy.
The Hot Springs National Park Visitor's Center was in one of the old bathhouses. There was a small theater that showed an overview video and most of the building was an open museum.
Visitors could wander through the facility and see the various rooms and equipment to get an idea of what was in the public bathhouses. They found a lot of ways to use the mineral-rich hot water coming from the springs. I am afraid I was too inhibited to personally enjoy the public bathing experience - it was good enough to just see and imagine what it was like.
The needle shower had some really complex plumbing.
This equipment looks more like tools of torture than relaxation.
Seventeen shower heads ought to get one clean in hurry!
After the baths, there were rooms where patrons could extend the relaxation or get a nice workout. Of course, if they chose the workout, another bath was probably in order.
Isn't this the guy that made Tom Hanks "Big"?
The rock had been cut away to make room for the buildings along the road. A few extra square feet of building space required a lot of extra excavation so stores were not large on this side of the avenue. The geologist in us found the makeup of the sedimentary layers to be very interesting as well as beautiful.
One store featured old signs with quotes Joani found quite humorous - hopefully, she doesn't feel the need to use any of them on me directly.
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