Eureka Springs, Arkansas

So yeah, it has been a quick two years. A couple of months ago, Milli realized that we haven't been on a trip just the two of us, for....two years! So we decided a trip was in order. It just so happened that my spring break was the week before our anniversary, and since our first honeymoon burned down, we felt we deserved a second try.

Milli found out about a nice place nestled in the Ozark "mountains", called Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Now, if you can somehow manage to reconcile the fact that the natives here pass off these glorified rolling hills as mountains, if you look around, you might find that the Ozarks are indeed beautiful. I guess you could say it felt a bit more like home than Kansas City.

So we hopped in the car for our uneventful trip to Arkansas, and when we arrived, we checked into a cozy little cottage for two. It's name was "A Taos Sunset". If it looks small in the picture, don't be decieved.... it's smaller. But it was perfect for us.



We stayed for a day, and had a great time. On Saturday night, we had decided to enjoy a little bit of southern cookin' (Milli wouldn't let me eat at Pizza Hut), and we ventured to "Grandma's Cornbread and Cobbler". When we walked in, we immediately saw the only two employees in the place hunkered over the cash register, trying to figure the thing out. Maybe Grandma just found out about cash registers? We stood in front of them for a long moment before finally being noticed by the older employee. She explained to us that they couldn't make it work, but she would take our order and when they got the "dern" thing working we would get our bill. Of course, I had to order the cornbread and beans, which ended up tasting like it had been cooked by some outlaw in the wilderness about 150 years ago. Good thing I got that hotdog, because I would have been miserable without it, what with Pizza Hut only just across the street and all.

Nearing the end of our meal, our nice old waitress brings up our bill (they got that dern thing working finally), and apparently we owed them 24 dollars for some nasty beans and cornbread, a hot dog, and a salad. By my count, we owed them about twelve. So, after the meal, I asked her to itemize that bill, and they realized their folly. So she went to work on this calculator (the cash register couldn't add, but neither could she). She comes out with a new wrong number, and after a few tries, I volunteered to walk her through all of the calculus. We finally got the right number (it was twelve something)!

Here comes the best part. I then mentioned to her that we wanted two orders of cobbler (which actually turned out to be quite good), and asked if she could add that onto our bill. So she whipped out her trusty calculator again, and quickly added up the new numbers , and she said, "OK, that brings your total to $8.50." Are you laughing yet? I almost payed her right then and there, but I ended up doing the right thing and re-working the bill with her to a nice round number of $15. As I prepared to pay her with my debit card, she told me that their debit machine wasn't working, either. I ended up paying the lady everything I had in cash, which was $10 even. So we caught a break on that nasty cornbread. Is that what southern cornbread is supposed to taste like, anyway? They should just stick to cobbler I think.

And that was just the beginning of our evening! After we left the grandma's place, we went to an ole' fashioned Ozark Hoe-Down, complete with some seriously cheesy comedy and impressive musicians. I mean, we're talking keyboard, guitars, steel guitar, banjo, harmonicas.... it was my kind of show. Of particular note was the coolest version of the "Dueling Banjos" I have ever heard and an awesome keyboard version of Lionel Richie's "Stuck On You". It turned out to be a great program, and I highly recommend it to anyone that finds themself wandering the Arkansas wilderness.

I must stop, this post is getting ridiculously long. We had a great time in the Ozarks. Milli is a great road tripper when she doesn't have the scoots. I wouldn't have any other navigator before her. The only bad thing about our trip was that we forgot to take our "dern" camera! So sorry about the lack of real pictures, but you've seen us before, and we still look the same, so stop complaining.

If you are still reading this, I applaud you for your stick-to-it-edness! Good night, all.

Two Years!

We have made it to two years and counting! It has gone by so fast and it still feels new. I just quickly want to list ten reasons why I am still married to Travis :)
10) He has mad baking skills. He makes the best desserts. I don't even compete with him in this category so therefore I don't bake.
9) He tickles me more than I tickle him. What can I say, I'm kind of needy!
8) He is so endearing. If anyone watches LOST, Travis is like Sawyer in the nickname department. He is always coming up with cute little nicknames for me and I love it.
7) He is so passionate about sports. I love this about him most of the time except when he gets in the "zone" and totally ignores everything I am saying.
6) He is amazing at the piano. It is one talent that not a lot of people know he has but he can sure play.
5) If anyone knows Trav you know he is amazing with kids. He loves them and sometimes I get jealous when we are around kids because he ignores me and gives them all the attention :) He will be an awesome dad!
4) He is so smart! He is in the top 30% in his class.
3) He makes me laugh. He is goofy and corny and sometimes perverted and I love it!
2) He loves to surprise me. He is always so coy with upcoming birthdays and events. I am a very anxious person, so usually I am not up for surprises but he won't change and its kind of cute (and most of the time I figure out that something is going to happen... I'm a detective)
1) He still looks at me the same as the day we got married and I hope that never goes away because I love that!

Love you Trav!

Some Funny Stuff!

Not too much has been happening around these parts so I don't have a lot to blog about; however, there have been a couple of funny little things that have come my way that I'd thought I would share:

1) Travis had a really tough week last week. He had a couple of finals that really drained him. He actually looked like a real 30-year old man instead of his young boyish looks. I don't even think he shaved, showered or changed his scrubs for that whole week come to think of it. So his finals are over and and its his Spring break so he gets a whole week off from school. So what does he do? You may be thinking sleeping in, breathing fresh air, easing your mind. No. He woke up at 6:30 am on Monday morning so that he and his school mate buddies could have a Lord of the Rings marathon.


They watched all 3 movies in one day. These aren't just the normal DVD's, these are the director's version which means it adds another hour to these never ending movies anyway. I got home from work and he didn't return till about eleven that night. They are seriously the biggest dorks I know! I guess I'm sort of a dork myself though because he called me a couple of times to check on me and every time I would answer, I would say "my precious" in Gallhams voice and then laugh and think I was really funny.

2) At work I just found out that Dwight and C-Spark also got disinvited to the obesity conference because the doctor realized how expensive it would be for him. What a freakin' cheap wad! I did have to laugh because I guess I'm not the only one who gets the shaft. Love the drama!

3) I never really realized how gifted my husband is at Dance Dance Revolution. He could almost be a black man! OK I'm going way too far but seriously the guy can really move. I'm not going to say he looks the most graceful, but he killed everyone on Saturday night by a huge margin boys and girls included. So that is another thing he has going for him if the medical school thing doesn't work out.

These little funny things keep me entertained and happy and I think in order to keep my sanity I have to look for them everyday.