Trolly Ride

Yesterday I didn't drive anywhere. I walked around the neighborhood, and did a load of laundry and engaged in a video chat with Offspring #1 and his family.. So today I drove to downtown Little Rock and parked at the Clinton Presidential Library and walked along the trolly tracks until I found a stop. After a few minutes the trolly pulled up and I got on for my free ride. The conductor was very nice and he told me all about his experiences on the trolly. Next week he is going to New Orleans to conduct a trolly and will be paid two hundred bucks per hour. He said there would be a delay today because of the gay pride parade today in North Little Rock.

So I got to go to a parade. Here is a square where music was playing. To the left snipers were sitting on the roof because last year the Westboro Church came to this parade. Scary, no? I sat here a few minutes and then walked back to the trolly at the beginning of the parade route. The parade started at noon. I leaned against a wall with a guy from town and his friend from Utah. I ate my pea pods and sandwich as the parade went by. By 12:30 the parade was over and soon our trolly was on it's way. By 2:30 I was back to my trolly stop again.

My conductor told me that today they were doing historical reproductions today and that the museum was free. I saw a blacksmith, a shoe maker, a printer, a dress maker, a chair maker, a man who made pickles (I had a pickled piece of peach!), a yarn spinner, a woman working a loom and some medicinal herbs and flowers. Oh, and I almost forgot the lawyer. 

Later I went inside to see the galleries. They had a collection of Jim Bowie knives and guns. They had art from various Arkansan artists.

This tells a story of a not so nice Jim Bowie.

At the end of the day I got all these free things. Oh, and I made that jump rope. Today was a fun day.