The Whitbeck Motel

The Whitbeck Motel features one newly renovated non-smoking room, well-equipped with crown molding, dimmers, new window blinds, two fully-loaded bookcases, a new ceiling fan and a gently used treadmill.
The mission-style bed, pillow-top mattresses and vera wang bedding materials are also new with the renovation. These plush additions add an immense amount of comfort to the room. (See guest comments below.)Also newly added is a beautiful armoire for hanging up your formal wear. The armoire was originally purchased to house the television and dvd player seen in the above picture. However the t.v. was too heavy and too large for the armoire. (We regret to tell you that the television is no longer an available option for this room. The dvd player is still available.)
This room comfortably accommodates two adults with room on the floor for at least one additional guest. Extra pillows, blankets and towels available upon request. Accommodations for pets may be negotiated (extra charges may apply). This room also features beautiful artwork by the photographer Andrew. The canvas above the bed is an original photograph taken by the artist almost two years ago in Ghent, Belgium.

We are please to announce that the hall bathroom should be exclusively available for this room by Christmas of this year and we hope that this slight inconvenience of temporarily sharing the bathroom will not keep you from visiting.

This room is available by reservation only, so please make your requested dates known promptly. (Unfortunately we are already booked through New Year's of next year.) We look forward to your visit!

Guest Comments: (3.5/5 stars)

Stephen - "These pillows are like marshmallows!" ****

Cherith - "Well, the mattress isn't hurting my back yet." ***

New Car!

Last night, Andrew & I & Dad W drove over to Tulsa and got a new car! We traded-in the Eclipse, which was kind of sad... however, Andrew was thrilled to leave it behind. Our new car is a Hyundai Santa Fe. As you can see from the pictures it is "slate blue." It's also AWD for any winter weather we might have here at home or on ski trips :)

Master Bath Remodel

Just wanted to share some pictures of our master bathroom with everybody...
If you want to see more, click on the title to this post and theoretically it should take you to a web album of all the pictures of the bathroom.

Updates

Undoubtedly it's been a very long time since we've posted anything, so here is a whole smattering of pictures from the last few months...

We got a new canon elph, kind of a Christmas present to ourselves and we had a blast with all the cool settings and features. This picture and the next we were trying out the macro setting. Oliver (Mom & Dad W's cat) really appreciated me using him as a test subject. This was the last picture I got before he ran and hid :)


This picture was after we discovered the color selective feature... pretty neat.

Okay, enough playing with the camera.

Cherith, Stephen, Justin & Sarah were wonderful enough to invite us on their post-Christmas vacation to the Smoky Mountains. Thankyou! So, New Year's Day we left to go visit the bears.

Here is a really cool picture Andrew took from the car on the way to Tennessee.

This picture was taken on our 8 mile hiking trip, right as we were nearing the end of the hike. Andrew has gotten really good at the waterfall pictures :)

Andrew and Stephen at the Chimney Tops.

Here's a night picture from the back porch on our cabin. Quite a view.

And a sunset picture.


On one of our hikes we found this carved in a bridge. Thought JC & KC might appreciate it :)

And since we're on the subject here's a picture of their little girl Gillian.... Isn't she precious?

Her brother was already in bed though, so no pictures of him :(

And, back to the trip to Gatlinburg and the Smoky Mntns...

This is Andrew zorbing. He got a whole outfit and everything so he could roll down the mountain in a giant ball :) Looks like fun! (Gatlinburg is the only place where zorbing exists in the US at present)

Oh yeah, I said we were going to visit the bears didn't I?! (This guy was about 10 feet away from Justin & Andrew while they were loading the car to go home, they quickly ran inside as soon as they realized he was observing)

Back to Arkansas...

Andrew was up at the University on Sunday and found his name in the sidewalk!! It's kind of in abscure place, but it's there.

Hope you enjoyed, we'll try not to let it be so long in between posts (I finally figured out how to post with our macbook). Goodnight!