Friday I convinced Sarah and Elaine to eat at Flappy Jack’s Steak and Pancake Restaurant. I mean, with a name like that, how can you not at least give it a try?
\nI, of course, had the steak and pancakes, with two eggs over easy and grits. It all was good save the namesake pancakes, which tasted like they were made from
\nthree-day-old batter from a box. As penance, I took them to the shoe store. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Saturday Gennard, Janina, Elaine, Sarah and I went pseudospelunking in the covered up Hot Springs Creek. It used to run down the middle of Central Avenue, but
\nthey needed more lanes of traffic (and still do), so they covered the creek. There is an entrance at the Transportation Depot, and we went in there. The water
\nwas cool, but not uncomfortable. After going about 100 yards, we realized that we needed more than the two flashlights we had, so I ran back to the Youth Center
\nand borrowed the flashlights from the show. We trudged on, seeing such fauna as a turtles (including one with a shell that was at least 18″ in diameter),
\ncrayfish, perch, and catfish. The water level was a bit high due to rains earlier in the week, so the going was slower than we had planned. The batteries in
\nthe borrowed flashlights were weak after being used in the rehearsals and shows, so we cut our expedition short and came up at the manhole at the beginning of
\nBathhouse Row. The expression on people’s faces as we emereged from underground were quite amusing!<\/p>\n
After lunch I finally got around to ‘taking the waters,’ and I selected the Arlington for this experience. It was very nice: started off with a soak in a tub of
\n?40
\n?C spring water for 15 minutes, with an attnedant who scrubbed my back and legs. Then two classes of hot water for drinking, then 5 minutes in the vapor room
\n(which was plenty…I like hot, but, man, this was something else!). Next came a lie-down wrapped in sheets with a hot towel placed on my hurt shoulder (from my
\nfall in Italy), then a massage. I should do this routine before every performance…it was awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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