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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Weekend Getaway

Breakfast is served!
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a paid holiday for hubby, so we took advantage of the three-day weekend with a getaway to the Ozark area in southern Missouri. We stayed two nights at The Keeter Center at College of the Ozarks, which turned out to be an excellent choice.

Students at the college fill all the positions at the Center and they did a fantastic job pampering us. We stayed in a Skyline View Suite that was equipped with everything we needed and more, including a sound machine in the bedroom and fireplace in the living area. 

Half of these oatmeal cookies are now
in our freezer and I'll be sad when
they're gone. So good!
When we first got to our suite, we found a bowl filled with a variety of snacks all made by the students, and Diet Coke and fresh milk in the mini-frig. Turndown happened around 6:30 P.M. and included a plate of freshly made oatmeal cookies as well as pillow chocolates. Then, in the morning, a continental breakfast was delivered to our suite at a time we specified. Did I mention we were pampered?

The Keeter Center also includes a restaurant called Dobyns that serves brunch on Sundays. We decided to indulge and, again, the students took good care of us. 

It was a great getaway that also included a tour of the Fantastic Caverns. And definitely an easy winter escape we'd consider again.

Fantastic Caverns
The first to explore Fantastic Caverns
were 12 women in 1867 who wrote
their names on a cave wall.
Fantastic Caverns

1 comment:

Rita said...

Oh wow! That suite is almost the size of my new bigger apartment--and has a bigger TV and turn down service and cookies! LOL! Did you really get to ride through the caves? Did they stop and turn off all the lights so you could experience how dark a cave is? I was in a cave in Wisconsin (walking, of course) and they did that. I never forgot how black it was in there. What a wonderful get away!! :)