A lovely 28 hours

Thanks to our good friends, The Lowell's, taking Camden overnight, Doug & I had the opportunity for a little get away. The first one in more than 5 1/2 years. Things have been very busy around here lately (and will soon become busier) so we welcomed the opportunity to reconnect a bit as well as have a little belated celebration of our 16 anniversary which took place in January. We had purchased a night at a B&B in Amado, back in December at a charity fundraiser. We were pleasantly surprised that they put us in one of their nicest rooms. We had a wonderful bed, jacuzzi tub, flat screen tv and a little fridge. The room was even cute for southwest decor (sorry to you lovers of all things southwest...that's not me!) Anyway, the room was prime for relaxing and reconnecting and we took advantage of it.

Here's our little B&B along with a few of the beautiful surounding flowers:

We had a romantic dinner here at Longhorn Grill. You should have seen it at night...the eyes are bright red. There was actually one other dinning option in town...the Cow Palace. It had a whole cow on top of it. Too funny...AZ definately has a lot of kooky stuff! We had a good time though.

On Sunday we headed to Tumacacori, which is an old mission from the 1690's. We greatly enjoyed learning about some of the history of Southern AZ. But I did feel convicted though...I have lived here many years and have never gone to see this. In fact, there is probably many things that I haven't seen here. The last several years Doug and I have been more interested in adventuring to other countires, instead of learning more about our own. We have decided that we would like that to change.

Here's what it currently looks like inside:
This is what "they" think it looked like way back when:

My handsome hubby:

Us! :)

At the mission there was a sweet little old woman, doing a traditional tortilla making demononstration. Come to find out she has been doing this here at the mission for 26 years. It was so cute...as she was making her tortilla's (along with her yummy beans by the way) she was doling out all sorts of wisdom. Unfortuately, we had to get it second hand as we don't speak Spanish. But it was wonderful just the same and we were able to chat with two more couples in the process. The sweet little tortilla lady (and her hubby) have been married for 50 years and here is a few of her words of wisdom:

The most damage you can do (to a relationship) is with your tongue.

Without love you have nothing but if you have love you have everything.