One Year!

Exactly one year ago today, all of our friends and family were toughing the heat to see us tie the knot. Woo hoo! I can't even believe it's been a whole year, but at the same time I feel as if Jared and I have been married always. (in a good way, I promise!) To celebrate our first anniversary, Jared and I booked a weekend in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and stayed at the beautiful Heartstone Inn Bed & Breakfast.










We drove up to Eureka after I got off work on Friday, in time to get there, check in, and head out for a drink at Stonehouse Wine Bar and dinner at Local Flavor.  If you're ever in the area, I would highly recommend both. Stonehouse for the wonderful live music and extensive wine and beer list, and Local Flavor especially for the crab cakes, although everything was delicious.  We then headed back to Heartstone and got to bed relatively early, as we both had a long week.  We had a fantastic gourmet breakfast in the morning, and proceeded to drive to the historic downtown area to walk around and see the neat shops.  We had lunch at the Mud Street Cafe, and enjoyed the cool stone basement underground seating to get out of the hot sun for just a bit.  After lunch stopped back by the inn for lemonade and a cookie on the deck, then we drove out to see the largest Jesus statue in North America (Christ of the Ozarks...not sure what the story on that is) and on the way back we happened on a piece of the Berlin Wall in a small churchyard.  (again, no idea how that came to be there) Afterwards we headed back to the inn (for a small old people nap) and changed to go out to the Sky Bar at the famous Crescent Hotel.

We didn't see any ghosts, but we did see two weddings back to back, and children in a bar.  The hotel was gorgeous, and the views from the balcony of the bar were fantastic.  We finished our drinks, and drove back down to the historic district for our dinner reservations at the Grand Taverne.  We went back, had some coffee on the second floor porch off our room, and enjoyed relaxing! (This doesn't occur often with Jared's busy school schedule even during the summer, and my working) We got up early again Sunday morning on our actual anniversary and had another wonderful breakfast in the inn's dining room before packing up and checking out.  We took the scenic route back to Fayetteville, and now we're just relaxing until our anniversary dinner tonight!

We've already had a wonderful weekend, and look forward to spending the rest of the day together, relaxing and enjoying each other's company.  Here's to a wonderful first year of marriage, and looking forward to many, many more.