Oh What a Day, what a day!

Thanks to a helpful tip from Brittany about great places to hike, we headed up to the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in OK today. It was beautiful and free! Thanks Brittany. Rachel and two of her former students, Desiree and Raven, went with us. We got up there around one and had a delicious picnic. Then we hiked to the Bromide Overlook. It was so great to get to enjoy a peaceful hike on a beautiful day in a fairly other people free atmosphere. I really really miss getting out in nature like that. I wish I had the chance to go to places like that more. All of the girls really enjoyed the day. Maddy slept through half of it but she still really liked being outside. We practically had to drag Desiree and Raven away from the overlook area. Now time to go to bed and try not to get too behind on sleep with the irritating time change tomorrow. Oh well. Looking forward to more daylight in the evenings.

Comments

Sarah Kirksey said…

That is a great family picture of y'all! So glad you enjoyed the gorgeous weather! :)

March 13, 2010 at 9:30 PM

Brittany said…

yay! Looks like a lot of fun. sniff, sniff. Definitely will have to do it again!

March 14, 2010 at 11:15 AM

bee said…

Certainly am waiting for details. Glad you had tons of fun.

March 14, 2010 at 9:27 PM

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