It was a nice ride to Bella Vista, we were on our way to stay with
Barb and Warren, neighbors from our Minnesota prairie home. Warren had been a teacher and football coach so we got a lot of insight into the emphasis of football in the local high schools. Barb had cooked a wonderful meal and afterward we were having what we thought was a good time playing euchre until Barb threatened to remove Ruthie's tongue to prevent her from bidding. Ruthie is a little competitive and I do have to agree, I was getting a little tired of it also.
They live in a very nice home in a Cooper community. ( make note of that) and one of the reasons they live there is the weather and golfing. They gave us a lot of great hints on things to see as we left. One of the things that Barb mentioned that we will have to see another time is the mule jumping contest. Funny as it sounds it is an annual event and quite interesting. We had the opportunity to see one at a horse show in Chatfield Mn. A mule has the unique ability to stand in front of a fence gather itself and jump almost straight up and over a fence, I had heard that they had been used for coon hunting for years, because the rider could come up to a fence lay blanket on it to give visibility to the fence and the mule will jump over it . There is one that has jumped over 70 inches. When we left that morning they were amazed at how we packed all our things into the trike. And evidently there were no hard feelings over the card game the night before because Barb snapped this picture of us as we were ready to leave and emailed it to us.
And we were on our way to their suggested stops, it doesn't take much
to alter our plans. First stop was the Cooper Chapel built by her family to honor
the wife of the founder of the cooper communities. Built out of steel and glass. It is beautiful.
Remember now, we are in Walmart country home of Sam Walton so a trip to Bentonville AR to see where it all started. Ever wonder what makes one person strive to do more than the next? Was it education? Ambition?
What ever it is, it all started here and as they say the rest is
history. From their we traveled just out side of town to the Crystal
Bridges museum. The museum was the dream of Alice Walton daughter of
Sam and Helen. It is a non profit foundation started but not associated
with Walmart even though admission is free because of them. We are
not your typical museum visitor. However we spent three enjoyable hours
touring it. It is dedicated to American artists. One of the areas
had information and models of other buildings created by the architect
of this museum Moshe Safdie they are some of the most unique buildings I
have ever seen. Here are a few pictures of and inside the museum.
I had to include the next two because it was so different. 986 thread spools so arranged that when viewed thru a viewing sphere it creates an image.
Time to get on the road again. It was an interesting day, thank you Barb and Warren for the travel tips.
They live in a very nice home in a Cooper community. ( make note of that) and one of the reasons they live there is the weather and golfing. They gave us a lot of great hints on things to see as we left. One of the things that Barb mentioned that we will have to see another time is the mule jumping contest. Funny as it sounds it is an annual event and quite interesting. We had the opportunity to see one at a horse show in Chatfield Mn. A mule has the unique ability to stand in front of a fence gather itself and jump almost straight up and over a fence, I had heard that they had been used for coon hunting for years, because the rider could come up to a fence lay blanket on it to give visibility to the fence and the mule will jump over it . There is one that has jumped over 70 inches. When we left that morning they were amazed at how we packed all our things into the trike. And evidently there were no hard feelings over the card game the night before because Barb snapped this picture of us as we were ready to leave and emailed it to us. 
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