The Brunkers: Babymoon-Eureka Springs/Beaver Lake

This past weekend we went to Beaver Lake/Eureka Springs for our last get away before baby Brooklyn arrives. It was so nice to get away and not have anything to worry about! I don't think Ben has ever really taken a true vacation from work, except for our honeymoon. When we go to Florida he always works in the morning and then enjoys vacation time in the afternoons and evenings. But, on our honeymoon and babymoon, he never checked his email, didn't take any work calls, NOTHING! I was so happy for him to be able to relax and not have to work and spend quality time we ME!

We left Thursday morning, stopped about 30 minutes away from our cabin at Wal-Mart to get groceries and such then checked into our cabin around 4pm.

The last 20 minutes of the drive were very curvy, and steep roads. It was quite the experience driving that terrain, Ben kept saying he felt like we should be in Colorado going up a mountain or something, NOT in Arkansas!

We watched movies, ate popcorn (I ate kettle corn-I am not a huge popcorn fan) ate pizza and candy and relaxed.

We slept in Friday morning, even Ben slept in, which is very unusual for him. We cooked breakfast and then went and explored the property we were staying on. They had an inside fishing area, canoes, kayaks and paddle boats you could take out and a dock to lay out on. Unfortunately, the weather was a bit chilly (but great fall weather) so we didn't do any of those activities, which was fine with us!

We read our 'baby books' Friday afternoon-I read a book on breastfeeding, started reading Happiest Baby on the Block, and Ben read Superbaby. He loves that book. We went to Barnes and Noble the night before we left town and picked out a couple of books we thought looked good. After reading something interesting Ben would always share it with me-it was so fun to talk about baby stuff with him and our views on parenting in certain situations! We will continue to read our books and have discussions here at home while we are waiting ~~patiently~~ for Brooklyn.

Friday afternoon/early evening we went into Eureka Springs to explore the town. It was such a cool little town with neat shops, cool bars/pubs and a very historic yet fun atmosphere. It would have been fun to spend an afternoon and some of the local pubs/bars out on their patios and eating wonderful bar food, if I wasn't pregnant!

We went to Autumn Breeze Restaurant in Eureka Springs for dinner. The reviews for the restaurant were amazing and it was something we both wanted to try and the perfect dinner place. Not too fancy but not too casual, a very nice steak house. The food was amazing and the chocolate souffle for dessert was incredible-they are known for their chocolate souffle, and you have to order it when you are ordering your dinner as it takes about an hour to cook! So yummy!

We went back to the cabin and watched another movie and we watched the movie Happiest Baby on the Block, that I bought with the book. I thought it would be good for both Ben and I to watch together so we could see in person what was being done to the baby to calm it, etc. and then it would be easy to discuss it. Right after the movie got over Ben looked at me and said "I'm scared". It was the cutest thing ever! I know once he figures it all out and gets the first time nervous jitters out he will be an awesome daddy!!

We slept in Saturday, and packed up the car, cleaned up the cabin (I don't know how 2 people can trash an area in 2 days, but Ben and I managed to get quite messy-ha!), and headed home!

What a great babymoon!! Pictures below: