Little Rock 2014 - Day One

This summer, Mark has been working in Little Rock closing down a facility. He is usually gone four days of the week. This week, Jacob happened to be out of town too - at Boy Scout Camp in Tennessee. So I packed up the other kids and we took a road trip to Little Rock just for fun!

We stopped in Texarkana to straddle the state line.

Once in Little Rock, our first stop was the Children's Discovery Museum. A super fun place with experiments and hands-on activities that the kids played with for hours!

 A bed of nails!

 They created a news program.

They also got to pet a hedgehog and a chinchilla!

After lunch, we crossed over the Arkansas River on one of the many railroad bridges in town that have been converted to pedestrian bridges. 

We headed over to tour the USS Razorback, a submarine used in WWII. Funny that the Razorback name was from a type of shark, NOT the famed Arkansas razorback hog.

It was crazy-tight quarters in there, but thankfully, it was now an air-conditioned museum. We  climbed down a ladder, crawled through portholes, checked out the weaponry, and the crew quarters.

Here's the kitchen. You got 10 minutes to eat, and only a one-minute shower every 15 days.
Ewww!

It was a great tour!