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Back from “some rest”

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Site News

After we finally left town for our honey-night¹, Ariesna nod­ded off and went to sleep for most of the drive. Once we got to Dav­en­port, I got a bit too caught up in look­ing for street names and went past the place we were stay­ing… a cou­ple of times. *sigh* I’m con­vinced I’ve got less direc­tion sense than a rock. I can learn an area so I know where I’m going but it takes me a fairly long time and even after years of liv­ing in this area; I tend to turn down a street only to be sur­prised when it joins up with a dif­fer­ent street I’m already famil­iar with. All this is build­ing up to say that I ended up hav­ing to tell Ariesna where we were stay­ing before we found the place². I did so want it to be a com­plete sur­prise. *sigh*

Any hoo, the place we stayed at is called Fulton’s Land­ing. It’s a late 19th cen­tury house that has been beau­ti­fully main­tained and is dec­o­rated with many a won­der­ful antique. When we finally arrived, Ariesna & I walked inside but found our­selves faced with a small prob­lem. There was no sign of the pro­pri­etor! After a bit of shout­ing hello and ring­ing the door­bell, I went back out­side and started walk­ing around the grounds to see if I could find some­body. Later Ariesna con­fided in me that just after I’d gone search­ing that she found a small note say­ing that our host­ess could be found paint­ing the front porch.

After locat­ing Pat, our gra­cious and charm­ing host, we headed back to where Ariesna was wait­ing and then up to our room. Ariesna was thrilled and while I did find it to be a lovely room; it was a bit pink for me. We fresh­ened our­selves up a bit and then went to a nearby Japan­ese restau­rant that we are famil­iar with from pre­vi­ous vis­its to the area. Their yummy rolls weren’t as good as the ones we’d had back in Kansas City once upon a time, but the Hawai­ian rolls were fan­tas­tic³! Then she had the Shrimp Tem­pura and I had the Chicken Katsu. Both dishes were deli­cious and much larger than I remem­bered from pre­vi­ous vis­its. After each­ing our fill, we headed back to Fulton’s Landing.

Just a brief side note for the sin­gle folks who read this blog: when you get mar­ried some day; make sure to eat a good break­fast and/or hide some sort of energy bar in your pocket/purse for later. That way you don’t starve as your wed­ding guests are likely to keep you so busy that the serv­ing staff will remove your food before you get a chance to eat any of it!

We did get back to Fulton’s Land­ing with­out any trou­bles and had a very pleas­ant evening relax­ing… and doing those things that new­ly­weds do. The next morn­ing, we had a mar­velous break­fast with the other guests: a cou­ple from Nebraska with their daugh­ter from Brazil and a writer from Eng­land. Appar­ently, he writes a col­umn called “The Best…” for The Euro­pean; this has him gaunt­ing around the world find­ing the best places to stay, best foods to eat and writ­ing all about it for his clien­telle. After lis­ten­ing to him talk for a few min­utes, I’m became con­vinced that I’m in the wrong pro­fes­sion. :) After break­fast, we checked out but Pat allowed us to leave our car parked there so we could go for a walk around the area. There are many gor­geous houses over there, a few of them for sale –and quite undoubtably out of my price range–. It ended up being a longer walk than we had really thought we were in for, with a good chunk lead­ing us up-hill but it also very enjoy­able. Par­tic­u­larly once we left the hous­ing area and got back down by the river with the cool breeze com­ing in off the water. Hmm, that was soo nice.

Then it was time to retrieve the car and head for home, which we spent just qui­etly enjoy­ing the day & each other’s com­pany. Later in the evening, Ariesna’s par­ents came up and we unwrapped all the wed­ding loot. It was a good haul. Heck, there were even gifts in there that were aimed more towards me than they were towards the bride. Don’t mis­un­der­stand me, there were plenty of gifts that were def­i­nitely picked with the bride in mind! And of course, there was also a nice selec­tion of checks and cold, hard cash as well. All in all, I think Ariesna & I should get mar­ried more often if it’s going to bring in this kind of loot.

¹ Due to time & finan­cial con­straints, we didn’t get to do a full hon­ey­moon right now but we hope to do one later. Since it was just a night away from home, I’m call­ing it our honey-night. :)
² For the record, she’d already noticed the sign for the place a cou­ple of times before I broke down and told her.
³ For those unfa­mil­iar with Japan­ese cui­sine, these rolls are actu­ally types of sushi.

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