I am Legend…

I am not talking the movie either…which btw I really didn’t care for. No, I am Legend to my lilest bean…

Last Wednesday during Spring Break we took a trip to my Favorite Place, just her and I. All the way up there she wanted me to tell her what we would do first,then after that and so on…I was thinking geesh she is just like me, I do the same thing to mr gp. It’s not like reallyplanning, more like dreaming and useing your imagination and picturing it all in your mind…what can I say, that’s how we roll…

I do admit I was a lil bit worried about all the Noah’s Ark rain the area had gotten-would we be able to cross over 2 specific bridges or would we have to turn around and go that really curvy way-which by the way can be a really cool lil drive especially when the clouds are low,it seems like you are driving through them-the beans and I expierenced this about 6 yrs ago when I brought them up and they thought it was the neatest-they still ask are we gonna go through the clouds again? I get car sick going the really curvy way. It was cloudy and cool and we didn’t bring jackets, I kept checkin the temp in the car and the closer we got to ES the cooler it got-Our first stop was the Giant Wind Chime…

We rolled in to town later than we had hoped but still early by most peoples standards-and as soon as we parked the clouds parted,the sun came out and it was just beautiful! We found a parking spot in the lot down from Mud Street Cafe(a perfect central spot for parking and walking back to unload all those packages that lilest bean bought), I needed a $5 but all I had were $20’s to put in the lil box-so we jump out and run up to Romancing the Stone-of course they can’t make change unless you buy something-I respect that butttt I didn’t have time to search for a gift from the Easter Bunny since I am currently breakin the law by parkin and not paying and I didn’t want a ticket or whatever it is you get for parkin and not payin…I find some hair thingies for the girl beans, pay and grab them,my change and lilest bean and runnnn back to the lil pay box I put my $5 in and sigh a sigh of relief. Yea, we are here we start walking back up and I stop and ask lilest bean was our parking spot #42 noooo mom it was #43 Oh SHOOOT…so I grab lilest bean and we runnnn back down to the car and sure’nuff I deposited my $5 in someone elses spot. OK so I put another $5 in the correct slot this time and we are off…

Once the parking spot/slot drama is behind us I take a look around, WOW the town is bustling-I have never been to ES during the week before. Apparently it is spring break for a lot of other people’s too. We see lots of moms & dads with their beans and extended families and friends-I admit I am use to the slower pace of the off-season months but lilest bean didn’t know the difference-the look on her face is priceless-she “gets it!”

She’s the boss,I go where she goes and she chooses her stores by what’s in the window-Glitzees is her first stop,she loved the shop they had “webkinz” and all kinds of cute lil princess bean things. The Rock and Mineral shop was another favorite-we got things for the whole family from the Easter bunny in there-the beans collect lotsa things like sno-globes, pins from places we have traveled BUT they mostly collect rocks…I have mr gp to thank for this. Lilest bean finds an un-opened geode(for her brother),polished petrified wood and a fossil(for her daddy), a HUGE green diamond shaped crystel-like a paper weight(for her sister) and lotsa items for herself. We shop and shop. We don’t do so good on our Rachel Ray $40 a day thingy-Thanks goodness for “Weee-Saaa” yanno, Weee-Saaa going shoppin and Weee-Saaa is my bestie, until the Weee-Saaa bill comes and then I don’t like Weee-Saaa so much! weee-saaa aka VISA!

We decided to have a late lunch at Cafe Santa Fe where we share fajitas and figure out what she wants to do next…

She wants to go and check out The Princess Jessica Eureka House Oh goodness…

The Eureka House for those that haven’t had the luxury of staying there YET is just out of this world awesome! The princess explored every single inch of the house,she studied the pics on the wall and wanted to know who everyone was, I only recognized Ms Margie and Beau-she found a painting of her Favorite movie, The Dorothy Pic by Zeek, she LOVED the stairs, oh my gosh those stairs-because they are at an angle they were super duper cool. J&K had left her some long sparkly necklaces that she wore everywhere-and some flowers that are in a waterless vase in her room right now. She absolutely loved the swing-she wanted me to try it out because it was sooooo much fun,but I didn’t think the swing could hold my bootylicious!  She staked out “her side of the bed” checked out all the movies,opened every single door in the house and once she saw the size of the closet asked if we could sleep in there! What is it with beans and closets? I got one of my BEST nights of Sleep in that downstairs bedroom. She checked out the Satellite tv-which I would have needed a manual and tutorial to figure out but she had it down in 5 seconds flat! She found the games and we played Uno,she wrote in the journal,she loved the sunroom and planned where our everyone in our family could sleep- A HUGE Thanks to Jan and Kim for opening up the Eureka House to us and making lilest bean feel like she was The Queen!

She wanted to go for a drive and explore, so we drove the Historic route and stopped at the Cresent so she could walk around, we explored the grounds and up to the 2nd floor-she wouldn’t ride the elevator because she thought she saw someone in there-she has these episodes where she sees people….at any rate we explored and came down to sit in front of the fireplace when all of a sudden the Piano started playing on it’s own-she got up and watched it play then I couldn’t convince her that it was set to automatically play and she wanted to leave immediately…

We stopped at the ice cream shop where she saw Carolines bunnies roaming around outside the store-she was amazed and now wants a bunny of her own-she is an animal lover and wants to be a vet when she grows up-she can’t watch those aspca commercials without crying…we stopped at sleepy’s where she got her pic taken in the big rocker. The animal planet channel is her favorite with disney a close 2nd…

It was time for the Ozark Mountain Hoe Down…and what a time we had! We were front row center and there for the pre-show. She just LOVED Granny & P.Nutt, I gotta tell ya I have NEVER seen her laugh so hard OR as much as I did this night! After the pre-show I went up to meet Jet aka Jeff with Thach Photography, what a GREAT Gentleman he is!  The Ozark Mountain Hoe Down was a fun family show that everyone should expierence at least once in their lifetime! I was sarenaded by the Blues Brothers and lilest bean sat there laughing so hard while taking pics, to bribe me with at a later date! Then right before intermission she was picked to come on stage and help P.Nutt & Girl, where I sat laughing hysterically and taking pics to bribe her with at a later date…The show was FANTASTIC~!!! At intermission I realized I left something back at the princess jess eureka house that we needed, so we had to leave and missed the last part of the show…we are planning to come back with the whole family this time so they can expierence what we did. Thank you Ozark Mountain Hoe Down and Jeff for making Wednesday night entertainment the BEST!!!

We woke on Thursday to go home and I think lilest bean had that same feeling I always get when it’s time to go home…mixed feelings not really sad because you KNOW you will be back, it’s just how SOON can I get back! All the way home she thanked me and talked about how much fun she had and when can we go back-she said “Mom ima Lifer like you” I giggled because once you visit Eureka Springs you know what I mean about being a “lifer”

My confession for today: I truly am Legend….at least in the eyes of a 10 yr old and I can live with that!