Highlights from Arkansas

I was lucky enough to spend a whole week with my sister Angie and her family (Dustin and Alice) in Arkansas. I have never been to the South before, so I was pretty excited to go. It was beautiful there. Not too hot yet in May, and everything was so green. I took way too many pictures, especially of my stinkin' cute niece Alice, so here are two videos of my favorite parts of my trip.

The first one is as the Alligator Farm in Hot Springs, AK. The gators here don't get huge, but that's because they grow really slow like humans, and they just don't keep them around long enough to get that big. Nonetheless, they were very intimidating, especially because the only thing between a swarm of them and you is a chest high chain-link fence. This guys is feeding them chicken. He says that in the cooler months he can get in the pen like this, but when the weather gets warmer, there is no way he would be able to feed them like that because when the temp gets hotter, so does gator blood and they feed in a frenzy.




These videos make me laugh every time. We went to a restaurant called Hook's Catfish Buffet were they served all you can eat fried chicken, fried shrimp, fried crawdad, fried corn, fried frog legs, fried mac and cheese, fried okra, fried mushrooms, fried onions, and probably a bunch more friend stuff. Truly a Southern experience. Angie and I tried the frog legs, and they tasted a lot like what a stinky old pond smells like. And the fact that we were eating one more fried piece of meat after a whole plateful of various fried delicacies probably didn't help either. It was totally gross to say the least. It definitely could have been the restaurant though. Anyways, the best reaction to the frog legs was Alice's. She would not even touch it. In the first video (left), she wants to pick it up but she just can't get herself to do it. In the next video (on the right)...well, just watch Alice the whole time. Hilarious.