We were able to spend our long Memorial Day weekend with a group of our friends from college. We have friends that live all over the country (Tennessee, Ohio, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma...), so Arkansas seems to be a central place for us to meet. This year we met up in Hot Springs. Our friend Traci found us a great house to stay at!
We got in late Friday night and stayed up later than I have in a long time catching up. It is always good to hear what everyone has been up to and what's going on in their lives. Saturday morning the guys went to play golf, and the girls set out for a morning of shopping. Someone had told us to find Hot Springs Village for some good shopping, so we spent a good portion of the morning driving around trying to find it. When we did, we actually found a retirement village! The cute old man at the entrance told us we probably didn't want to stick around because the "dudes in here are 60 and older!"
We decided to head back to downtown Hot Springs to find a place for lunch. We found this cute hamburger place and decided to try it out. It took us almost 2 hours to eat lunch! Chrissy didn't get her meal until last, and she ordered a salad and sweet potato fries! After lunch we decided it was best to head back to the house. We spent the evening hanging out and playing the dictionary game- always a lot of fun with this group!
Sunday was a cool rainy day, but we decided to check out the national park and show the guys around downtown. We spent some time going through the museum about the bath houses and drove up into the national park. We ended up enjoying our picnic lunch in a parking garage because of the rain and then headed back to relax at the house. We had a devotional and communion at our house. Mat and I feel so blessed to have friends to share these times together. It was a special time of worship for us!
It was a great weekend that ended way to quickly! We are already looking forward to next year when we can take Baby Kelso to meet everyone.
