For some time now, Jeff has wanted to make a trip to South Arkansas. Our last trip to El Dorado was in 2007, so it's been awhile since he got back to his roots. We started the trip early Friday morning in an attempt to make it to his favorite doughnut shop - Spudnuts - for breakfast. We cruised down Hwy. 167 tuning in to Mix 96! as soon as we were in range and made it in time to grab the last few chocolate iced. 
We stayed downtown at Union Square Guest Quarters. It's kind of like a bed and breakfast, so we were a little concerned that it wouldn't be kid-friendly. Jeff called to make our reservations, and the lady was very accommodating and gave us a huge suite! 
We spent the afternoon walking around downtown. There were a few updates since our last visit including some new shops, restaurants, and these big pieces of oil drilling equipment made into statues all around the Square. 
We also stopped for some pictures at these classic ElDo photo ops:
Flashback to 2007:
More than anything else, we ate a lot on this trip! Shortly after Spudnuts, we had lunch at Minute Man. That evening we went on a driving tour of some of Jeff's old hangouts: his old house, Norphlet High (well, actually K-12 in adjacent buildings), the plant farm where he used to work and more while hearing stories about the local residents.
We stayed downtown at Union Square Guest Quarters. It's kind of like a bed and breakfast, so we were a little concerned that it wouldn't be kid-friendly. Jeff called to make our reservations, and the lady was very accommodating and gave us a huge suite! We spent the afternoon walking around downtown. There were a few updates since our last visit including some new shops, restaurants, and these big pieces of oil drilling equipment made into statues all around the Square. We also stopped for some pictures at these classic ElDo photo ops:Flashback to 2007: More than anything else, we ate a lot on this trip! Shortly after Spudnuts, we had lunch at Minute Man. That evening we went on a driving tour of some of Jeff's old hangouts: his old house, Norphlet High (well, actually K-12 in adjacent buildings), the plant farm where he used to work and more while hearing stories about the local residents.
We concluded our tour with a drive way out of town to a hole-in-the-wall restaurant - the original Abe's Old Feed House. Besides a church and a cemetary, it's the only thing around for 15 or 20 miles. It is a mostly seafood buffet that is only open for dinner on Thursday-Saturday nights and draws a big crowd. It should really be against the law to have this much fried food on one table. Nathan and Jeff both tried the froglegs and agreed that it "tastes like chicken"! 
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