Springhill (John Paul Hammerschmidt Lake) COE Park

It was time for Gina and I to get out and about.  It's hard when you work full time to get very far down the road and have time to relax at the same time.  Tends to happen on long weekends or in the rare cases when we take leave.  "Leave" = vacation days in our neck of the woods.  It was a choice of East or West for us as we've been South and North recently.  Memphis or Fort Smith.  We discussed and Fort Smith won out this time.  This COE park is 7 miles or so from the city.  Snapped off a couple pics of the site as I normally do.  Second is the Arkansas River behind our site about 200 feet or so.

 

 

It was around 2 pm when we arrived and we hadn't eaten yet, so after setting up and getting the air conditioning running, we looked for an interesting place to eat.  Gina has an iPhone app called Yelp and searched it and came up with a few interesting choices.  We ended up choosing Rolando's thinking it was Italian.  Not so, but man it was good.  Not your traditional Mexican food and probably not even considered Mexican at all, but rather South American.  Check out their version of cheese dip, called Queso Flamado.  The Flamado obviously means flame cause they lit it on fire at our table.  Gina had fish Tacos and I had a dish called Pallo Bunivenos.  I butchered it's spelling, but it was a very tasty chicken dish with a unique off-white rice and black beans with bits of cheese intermingled in a white sauce.  Good stuff Maynard.  

Here's some pics.