Oklahoma Summer Visit
Monday, July 27th, 2009
Heck it had been three and half months already, must mean time to go see the Grandkiddo again right? Well, true that but this time we wanted to send a little love Great Granny’s way as she had some (as they would say on the old Beverly Hillbillies show – which seems appropriate seeing we call her Granny..) ‘doctoring’ going on as of late. It was a very enjoyable visit as always – we love dem’ Okies ya’ know. Though of course, AGAIN, everyday it seemed to either be storming or threatening a storm. They tell us it’s just a coincidence and aberration that this has been the case every time we visit but frankly I have their weather on my iPhone now, and it’s not so odd peoples . It’s called tornado alley for a reason!
Truthfully we did catch one decent weather day. And by decent I mean non-rainy, because it still was hot and muggy. We took advantage of this by scooting up to a little festival on Lake Eufaula with M2, Antoinette and the Grand Mikey. M3 being a young sawed-off still wasn’t able to do all of the rides, but Grandma took him on the Carousel and his Daddy slide down the (somewhat scary in a cheap Carni’ put this ride together sort of way) sack slide thing. FYI he enjoyed both ‘rides’. We got him a balloon, a fish, and whatever else he wanted before he just plum tuckered out. Joan Jett was to play later that day and we planned on being part of his first concert experience – but alas, he wasn’t the only one beat down by the heat and humidity. So we grabbed a lunch at Gator’s on the lake, did a quick little Jellystone Campground stop and headed back home.
We mostly chilled the rest of the days enjoying everyone’s company and hanging out. One of the best days was the day we picked up this cool Horse tree swing thing for M3 and got to watch him swing and play with it. It might not yet be the favorite over the sandbox, but I think he will have years of fun with that thing, and we got some cool pictures to boot.
Well, I am sure it will not be long before we are back in the “OK” state again. In fact, from all the talk, sounds like I may be watching the Lions get beat down on Turkey Day in McAlester this year. The good news (no not the Lions) is that we now have another shower option just outside ‘our room’ thanks to Great Grandpa…. You da’ man!
