Race for the Cure

This photo is from last Saturday's Race for the Cure in Little Rock. It had been raining, so there weren't as many people as last year, but still a lot. The view is right after the start line on Broadway, heading toward the Broadway bridge over to North Little Rock. Even with fewer walkers, it still took an hour and a half to go a measley 5k. That's some slow walking, people!

Pine Bluff Film Festival

Visited lovely Pine Bluff, Ark., last night. First we went to dinner, and saw a woman wearing fur-lined boots with her mini skirt and bare legs. Let me remind you that September in Arkansas, and especially in Pine Bluff, is about the same weather as late July/early August in Massachusetts. Not cold enough for fur-lined anything. I suppose some people would disagree.

Anyway, then we went to the Pine Bluff Film Festival and saw Thoroughly Modern Millie, followed by an interview with Carol Channing. She's still funny and told a bunch of hilarious stories.

After the interview, Ms. Channing (who is 83, by the way!) performed some songs from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello, Dolly. That's her wearing the red suit and pigtails in the photos above. She even did a little dance with her husband, Harry.

The theater, an old, somewhat-restored one, only held 180 people and it was packed--we sat 3 rows from the back. By the time we waited in line to get our programs autographed and our photos taken, then made the drive back to Little Rock, it was 2 a.m. I was ready to just fall into bed and go to sleep, but no...Sydney had left a little present on the bed. Two yummy fur balls in a puddle of puke that soaked all the way through to the mattress. That was a fun mess to clean up in the wee hours of the morning!

 

Long time, no journaling

Well, I never did put up those photos of Bourbon St., did I? Basically, I just had my friend Linda take pictures of me with every "interesting" person I could find.

The above photo is of the Little Rock skyline as seen from across the Arkansas River, in North Little Rock, which I took last week. I figured, I started this journal with a Little Rock cityscape, I might as well re-start it with one, too.

I'm going to try to keep this up now. Really.

Tomorrow I go to Pine Bluff for the old movie festival. We're just going to see one movie, though, and hoepfully get our pictures taken with Carol Channing. I'm bringing my camera, anyway. We'll see what happens.