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Hiking, Parks

One more State Park marked off!

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We got to check off another Oklahoma State Park off the list last month!

Lake Thunderbird State Park! It has a nice nature center which is always a plus for my kids!

We had already walked all around the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History so I chose a nice easy trail.

The Fawn’s Nest Nature Trail was a little run down but went right next to the lake and was a pretty little walk. The kids were excited to see a little bit of snow! The campground looks nice and the playground near it was a bonus. This would be a nice park to camp at!

I think we only have two state parks left!!!!

They are the Great Plains State Park and Quartz Mountain State Park!

Can’t wait to plan a trip to see them!

 

Museums/Events, My Family

Picnics, Chocolate, and Airplanes.

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The second day of Nick being gone we drove down to visit with friends and explore their ranch they run.

They have hiking trails, beavers, and lots of space so it worked great!

We even got to see wild hog prints on our hike!

And I only got us a little lost…

They were actually really excited to have a picnic but eating faces are always awkward.

HA

Meanwhile, Nick was working and taking pics of stuff like this!

On Wednesday, two of my friends took four of my kids and one of my daughters and I got to run around to stores on a mommy daughter date!

We found a bunch of Vegan chocolate at Sprouts!

On Thursday one of my same friends took one of the twins while I took the other four to the Tulsa Air & Space Museum!We have a membership there that expires this month so I wanted to be sure and use it.

The only complaint I have about this place is there is no scavenger hunt or anything like that to help my kids explore the whole museum.

They basically just want to check out the hands on exhibits and then they are done.

We can spend a lot of time exploring even a tiny museum if there is a scavenger hunt type setup there.

Sometimes I will just buy postcards at the gift shops beforehand and have my kids find the thing on the card.

I kept meaning to put some time into making a scavenger hunt for here but never got around to it.

They spent most of their time up in the kids area playing the drone flight simulator games.

I am thankful we year round school so I can take a week off when needed.

Our official week off landed on the next week(this week) but we just did it while Nick was gone to make things easier.

Do you have any tricks to make museums more interesting for kids?

Camping, Hiking, Parks

Robbers Cave State Park ~Wilburton, OK

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I started working on this post at the beginning of the week but colds and allergy scares have hit hard this week.
So what can you do if you are worried about your child having an allergic reaction to something?

My best advice would be to carry a small first aid kit with you that has some children’s benadryl tablets in it.

It might buy you enough time to get help.

I carry it with me everywhere and it helps put my mind at ease.

My twins have some pretty bad allergies and while camping we have had some reactions pop up.

We do have epi-pens for them but benadryl has thankfully been enough so far.

I carry a small backpack with me on hikes like this so an epi-pen or benadryl is always close by.

I am glad that we can be prepared but still go on fun adventures like Robber’s Cave. This place is a great stop for adventure loving kids. Our camping spot was directly across from the path to the nature center which was nice! I like camping at places with natures centers(or museums nearby) and hiking paths.

It gives us some options on keeping the kids busy in different weather.

Robber’s cave has some fun boat rentals also.

 

Always something to work on when we take longer trips. This park is unique because of the amazing climbing it has. There are several trails to get to the cave and they range from very difficult to pretty easy. My boys of course wanted to take the hardest path.I might have gotten stuck once or twice.At the nature center.Our pretty spot.Back to the rock climbing.GoofA place like this terrified me when my boys were little and we still made sure to keep a close eye on all the kids and a tight hold on our littlest hand.There was a boy scout troop there when we were though and they were all just running around climbing like crazy. So maybe I am just paranoid. There are steep drop offs though so if you have little ones that is something to keep in mind. The CCC trail is about difficult but not the hardest way to the cave.This is the easiest way that I know off.

Still a bit of climbing at the end.

Great way to finish our trip last month!

Here is a video I made of our trip!