Home Again! Part 2

 I forgot to tell you something funny that happened when we were geocashing.  The geocash was supposed to be by a business.  Grandpa went down some steps and yelled "I found it!"  Mom looked and he was holding up a rat bait station.  Mom yelled that it was a rat bait station but he is hard of hearing, so he couldn't hear her.  He started trying to open it up.  Mom kept yelling "NO, NO!"  She then started laughing really hard.  When she got back in the car, Grandma asked if we found the geocash.  She started laughing again as she told Grandma about Grandpa holding the rat bait station over his head thinking it was his prize.  😂

We drove to Louisiana, MO with Grandma and Grandpa the Thursday before we left.  We put flowers on Dad's Grandparents graves.  Grandma and Grandpa also showed the folks where they want their ashes spread when they die.  They thought they had a spot picked out but they said there were too many trees and they wouldn't be able to see the river. They chose another spot that is really pretty and actually where Grandma's sister's ashes were spread.  We ate lunch in that location. The weather was beautiful.

We left Grandma's on Monday and headed to Bennett Springs State Park. Grandpa came along because he likes to trout fish too.  We had a great site our first night.  It had a lot of grass around it.  We had to move the second night because someone else had alread booked the site.  The weather was great!  The evenings and mornings were cool.  Mom and I enjoyed walking around while Dad and Grandpa fished.  

Mom opened up our door because the weather was so nice.

Camping is exhausting.

A view at the river.

Mom always has to take this photo.

We love spending time at Bennett Springs State Park.  It is such a peaceful place.

More to come on our trip in our next post.

Jaxson,

The Greyhound Who Is Happy To Be Back At The Beach

Home Again! Part One

We are home from our trip.  We were gone 16 days!

Our first two nights, we stayed at Eisenhower State Park.  The folks toured Eisenhower's birth home.  He was actually born in the house because back then women had babies at home.  His folks didn't own the house, but rented it.  The furnishings in the house didn't belong to the family because many other families lived there after he left. He didn't remember living there because he left as a small child and moved to Abilene, KS.

President Eisenhower's Birth Home

Old Train Bridge near Eisenhower's Birth Home

Deer at Eisenhower State Park

Next, we drove into Oklahoma.  We stayed at Twin Bridges @ Grand Lake State Park.  We stayed in the part of the park that was near a boat launch.  We thought it would be fun to watch the boats.  There were a lot of snow geese in the water.

Those are not rocks, they are snow geese.

We bought new windshield covers for the van.  We can see out but people can't see in.

That evening we drove into Miami, OK to eat at a restaurant that has been around since the 1960's.  It is called Ku Ku Burger.  The burgers were good and the fried mushrooms were even better according to Mom.  I am not allowed to eat mushrooms, so I can't tell you if they are good.

The next day, we drove to Grandma's house where we stayed for 11 days.  We did geocashing, attended a wedding and we ate way too much food.  I enjoyed spreading out on Grandma's big rug.

I will tell you about our return trip home in my next post. 

Jaxson,

The Greyhound Who Loves To Travel