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Develop your green thumb with skills learned from the professionals you'll meet at the Arkansas Flower & Garden Show. Over 100 landscaping and gardening vendors participate in the event, offering "how to" advice, tips for gardening, plants and yard décor to beautify your backyard, and more. You'll leave this festival a more knowledgeable horticulturist, with some loot to make your garden look good.

Visit the Arkansas Arts Center to see exhibits that showcase some extraordinary art pieces. Ongoing and traveling exhibitions feature works by renown artists like Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Diego Rivera, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paintings, sculpture, photography, and drawings are just a few of the art medias you'll see at the arts center.

Plan an overnight escape at the "#4 most romantic" bed and breakfast in America, The Empress of Little Rock. The beautifully restored couple's oasis boasts modern accommodations in a classic setting, with rooms equipped with fireplaces, jacuzzis, hydrotherapy massage jet showers, an aromatherapy steam sauna, luxury robes and plush feather beds. You won't want to leave after a night here.

Have dinner and drinks at the West End Smokehouse & Tavern. Catch the game on one of over 50 televisions, show your pool shark skills on a billiards table, play some shuffle board or darts, or relive your childhood by pumping quarters into an arcade game and setting the new "high score" record. Pizza, barbeque, burgers and everything in between are available on the menu.