Ken had done some checking before we left to see if the motel had a fitness room and they did. So Saturday<\/span> morning we got up early (not really early for us but early enough that all of the machines were available) and he did the elliptical and I did the treadmill.\u00a0 Just about the time we were getting done Todd and Nancy saw us through the windows as they were headed out for a walk.\u00a0 They stopped in to ask if we wanted to join them. The Best Western is located out in a new development called Patterson Park so there are open fields around it, which made for a nice walk.\u00a0 As we curved around on the road we crossed over the next street to a cemetery.\u00a0 Back in September when we stayed at Mayo\u2019s ranch for the Junk Jaunt we took a walk one morning down their gravel road and ended up at the cemetery there as well. I guess we find it interesting to check out the old headstones.\u00a0 Anyway we had a nice walk with the Jarchows.<\/p>\n Ken and I had decided that we wanted to do some sightseeing on our own so we found the Chaplain Nature Center which is located along the Arkansas River.\u00a0 I have to explain something here just because I think it\u2019s funny.\u00a0 The people in Kansas are very intent on pronouncing Arkansas City or Arkansas River as the Ar-Kansas River and Ar-Kansas City so I had to do some research which I will put at the end of this post.<\/p>\n It was a very nice wedding and the priest did a good job with his homily. Megan was the maid of honor and Libby was the flower girl. The reception was held in a stone barn just north of Winfield, Kansas.\u00a0 We saw quite a few stone buildings on our drive down. Except for the wood portions, they were still straight and sturdy after all these years.<\/p>\n This barn was built by the GW Yount in the 1800\u2019s. Here\u2019s their website if you want to see more professional pictures http:\/\/www.timbercreekbarns.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n TimberCreek also has a bed and breakfast with lots of unique bedrooms, check them out.\u00a0 But the most unique structure by far is their Barn Owl Treehouse.\u00a0 This is where Emily and Mason were going to spend their honeymoon night.<\/p>\n Here are some of the pictures that I took at the reception.\u00a0 It was very touching to watch Dennis and Bub do the father-daughter dance.\u00a0 She was in tears by the time they were done and I think Dennis was a little teary eyed too.<\/p>\n Why they call it AR-Kansas<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n Here is one explanation from cimarronkansas.net<\/a>: Originally there were many tribes of Indians that roamed the great plains in the area of present-day Kansas.\u00a0 The prominent Indian tribe was called\u00a0\u00a0 the “Kanza” Indians.\u00a0 When it was time for the territory to be named, it was named Kansas after the Kanza Indians.<\/p>\n The river going through the Kansas Territory was named by combining the territory’s name and a very peculiar feature of the river.<\/p>\n Starting in the present southwest Kansas area around Ford KS and going northeast from there, the river started making a great“arc”<\/a>* away from its easterly path.\u00a0 The present-day city of Great Bend now sits where the river made its turn back to the southeast.\u00a0 The river proceeded southeast to an almost straight line position from the river’s original path, about 125 miles east of Ford where the city of Wichita sits today.<\/p>\n From Wichita it continues southeast, through Oklahoma, and then it crosses Arkansas and empties into the Mississippi river.\u00a0 The city of Great Bend got its name from the “great bend” or “arc” in the river.\u00a0 The territory name combined with the unique “Arc” in the river gave it the name Arkansas. (pronounced ar-kansas)<\/p>\n If the river had continued its path from Ford on to the east instead of its real path to the northeast, it would have bi-passed the present day Wichita location. \u00a0In theory however, Wichita would still have been on the river as it would have been built somewhere on the river, and Great Bend and Hutchinson would be south, but still on the river more than likely, depending on whether they were built near a water supply or along a railroad route.\u00a0 At the same time, the name Great Bend would not have been used and the name of the river would not be the Arkansas due to no “Arc” in the river.\u00a0 It also would not be the Kansas river as there is already a Kansas river.<\/p>\n Of course, the state of Arkansas was named for the Ar-kansas river.\u00a0 How the state’s name became pronounced “Ar-Kan-Saw” remains a mystery.\u00a0 By, Pete Thomas, webmaster.<\/p>\n Sorry this has turned into more of a sales pitch for TimberCreek and history lesson, but I just found all of this to be very interesting. 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