Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas

Today we made the drive into Arkansas.  We decided to stay the night at Horseshoe Lake.  The campground is called Box Hound Marina and RV Park.  The guy that owns this has quite the business going.  He has a monopoly on the fuel on the lake.  He says he can charge boats whatever he wants because if you don't want to pay it you can grab a gas can and walk into town.  I think this could be a good business to own.  You sit everyday in your store  at a gorgeous lake and make a ton of money on campgrounds, boat docks, boat gas, boat rentals and convenient store items.  

Anyway, it is a really nice lake and there is a great swimming area that has a floating deck that you can jump off of.  We spent hours in the water (which was really warm) playing monkey in the middle with one of Sterling's footballs.  We also practiced our dives off the floating deck and Dave showed off by doing back flips.  Peyton has become quite the swimmer.  The floating deck is quite a way out and Peyton (with a few mommy breaks) swam all the way out there.  There was a boy jumping off the Swimming deck who had one leg.  Peyton was very intrigued with how this boy could swim and dive.  So Peyton decided that he was going to swim the whole way back with one leg.  I didn't realize what he was doing until he started going under.  I told him he needed to master two leg swimming before he tried to swim with one.  We had a very nice BBQ'd dinner and then the motor home was (for the first time) peaceful.  Let me explain.  When we were at the garage sales outside of Chicago, Tanner found a 3 man tent he was desperate to have.  So we set up the tent and gave the kids a walkie talkie to contact us incase of an emergency.  After the first 20 min of walkie talkie madness. Dave and I actually had about 5 minutes of quite.  That's when Peyton decided he didn't like the tent and came in.  He fell asleep quickly and all was quite again for 15 min until the other two got scared and came back into the RV.  Oh well, I guess 20 min of peace is better then no peace!  

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions as to where to visit.  Yes Mitch, that is Dave in the Mr Incredibile outfit!   The scary thing is that he not only wears that costume to Six Flags he also wears it while driving the RV.