So I decided to spice it up a little last week and planned a spontaneous getaway to Eureka Springs, AR. I planned the whole thing without telling Tyler. I only told him that I was going to be spending around $110 dollars and to not worry about anything else. When he got home from work on Friday I was sitting in the parking lot hiding and once he went up the stairs into the apartment I put all of my stuff in the car and waited. I had left some notes in the apartment telling him to change out of his work clothes and then leading him to his already packed bags and then back down to the car. We went out for a quick bite and then drove about an hour to Eureka Springs. I bought tickets to this haunted ghost tour that my boss told me about. It was awesome and I think that I should share the story:
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| Let me know if you see anything spooky! |
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| You can tell we were the goofs of the group :) |
Back in the day the water of Eureka Springs was believed to have healing properties so the town grew and received a lot of tourism based on that. There was a hotel there that was a resort for the really upper class so people from up east would come down and stay there and just have a blast. In the off season it was a junior college for women. When the depression hit a man named Norman Baker bought the abandoned hotel and turned it into a hospital for cancer patients, especially with brain cancer. He wrote letters to rich families up east letting them know to send their friends and family who have that problem to him. He made it a resort as well as a hotel telling people to bring golf clubs and swim suits. When they got there he told them that they would be so busy that they need to write about 20 letters to their friends and family upfront so they would make up stories and letters talking about how much fun they were having. Here's the twist: Norman Baker wasn't really a Doctor but he let people think that he was. After a while he started to believe that he was a Doctor and started to doing surgeries and experiments trying to cure the patients. He would open their heads and pour the "Eureka Springs Healing Water" into their skulls and he ended up killing a lot of people. After they had died he would continue sending out their letters to their families so that we would continue receiving fatty checks. He eventually got arrested for mail fraud since he used to US Postal service to lie to people. Now the hospital is a hotel once again and the most requested rooms are the most haunted ones.
So with all of that said we went on the tour and the whole time our tour guide talked about ghosts and how often guests will catch a ghost on their cameras. So obviously I snapped photos the whole time to see if I could catch one. Tyler was a skeptic the whole time and I just thought the whole thing was funny. I didn't really get anything big in any of my pictures... but then, the last picture we took I caught this:
Spooky right! The tour guide said it is an "orb". You tell me what you think. Perhaps my husband had a ghost on his head.. perhaps not. :)
So after that we stayed the night in this really ghetto hotel and then the next day I planned for us to go to a chocolate festival. We went into this convention center where there were tables and tables of chocolate fountains, chocolate samples of anything you could ever imagine (including Dark Chocolate Vinegar.. blech!) They gave us a box and set us free.
It was such a great idea in the beginning but afterwards I don't know how good we were feeling about it. I ended up giving half of my box away to my Mom when we got home because no one needs that much chocolate.
Needless to say I think it was a successful weekend. He's taking his turn now with the surprises considering it's Valentines this week. He went out on some secret errands today so I'll guess we'll find out soon what they were. He's doing a pretty good job and not slipping up and telling me even though I try to catch him off guard when I ask.
Hope you guys are having a good week also! Thanks for reading!
Soo. Girls Camp. It's seriously awesome! But I've only been as a youth, never as the adult leader! Little to say I'm pretty excited but I'm pretty nervous all the same. The theme this year is based off of Dr. Seuss and it's "Oh to the Temple we Go" (like "Oh the places you'll go") and our wards theme is based off of the Grinch. I already have some awesome ideas of what we can do with that. I meet with my girls next Wednesday to get the ball rolling. Hopefully they'll like, hopefully they all know English and hopefully they won't make fun of my Spanglish and instead will help my poor Spanish skills.
