December 1 and 2 , 2011 Crossett, Arkansas

We unplugged, sucked in and headed to Crossett, Arkansas to the Crossett city RV park. It is near the low spot in Arkansas.

On the way we saw this tire man, complete with xmas lights on him, and in Strong, AR we saw this in a park, Statue of Liberty and fences, cows windmills etc.,

  bus parked in Crossett. Sign at the visitors center of Felsanthal Wildlife refuge

.The Tracks Inn, a couple box cars made into a hotel.Lake Jack Lee,

John at the low point in Arkansas. The Ouachita (wash-e-tah) river at the border of Arkansas. An Arkansas merry xmas, trailer, snowmen with a satellite dish in between them, a fishing boat in the back ground and a place where it never snows.

John having a deer lick his hand at the Crossett Zoo, and a Johncoon at the zoo

Sue and John petting the sheep at the zoo

Chinese barking deer. The one looking up was barking up a storm, Aliens in the front yard

Sue and Able Woodman. He was the mascot for the Woodman lumber company which used to be in Crossett. Now they have largest industrial complex in the state-Georgia Pacific forest products. Most of southern Arkansas is pine tree farms for the plant. We stayed for the Crossett xmas parade too. It started with every emergency vehicle from town with their sirens on, then the above beauty queens-everyone who had every been a beauty queen,  All throwing candy.

Then a truck of kids, maybe the cheer leaders?

Kids on bikes and wagons, and ATV’s, all throwing candy

No parade is complete without the horses, lots of horses and the end was Santa and his reindeer, all throwing candy. The kids were loving it. They thought they were in Candy land, and it was much easier than Halloween.

After wards every church in town (there were 20, and no bars) had a booth with food or xmas trinkets. The last photo is the booth that had fried Twinkies and Oreos. They ladies are frying Oreos.

Cute trailer from the RV park, and an egret in the bayou.