When we got on the road I was thinking how that went pretty well. Then…
Not what you want to see happen while driving down the road.
Thankfully I married a fixer. He did a temporary patch to get us down the road.We had the best spot!
I am so glad we didn’t miss this!
His last day as a fifteen year old was pretty great 😉The kids said they liked the Chandler park splashpad better than theirs. And it is a lot cheaper!The girls liked the crafts table at the Discovery center.
This kid was a great sport even though I dropped the ball on the whole reason for staying in the area. We were planning on going to the Amish Bakery for his b’day but of course they are closed on Sunday. If only someone had checked the hours beforehand…
He still ended up having a great birthday though and I wouldn’t mind staying at Greenleaf again! We did not even get any hiking in 😉
We did another week of living life in the rv while Nick went to work! This time at Lake Oolagah!
I thought we would be staying in a lakeside spot like last time but the site map for booking ended up being a bit off and we were just on the otherside of the road.
It ended up being a blessing because I was not sure if I wanted to worry about kids near the cliff all week anyway.
I had lots of plans to visit the surrounding area while we were rving starting with day one!
Then I realized I had left my purse in my husbands vehicle…
It ended up being a perfect low key day though!
We hiked at the Skull Trail and took the longest loop which follows near the lake mostly.
It’s about 1 mile long for the longest loopThese guys and pill bugs were all over the trees!We went swimming later at the swimming area near our campgroundIt rained a lot for the whole week but we were able to go to Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch still.The kids liked all the animalsI wanted to hike the next day but it was going to storm so we quickly checked out the Teaching Garden in Claremore and then headed to the Will Rogers MuseumAll the rain meant the dam near us was overflowing and had lots of birds.This little guy blocked our trail on our way back from the swimming beach to our campground one day!!!!!! My youngest son almost stepped on it!We checked out the Summerfest at Collinsville and it was a beautiful way to end the day.They have it on the second Thursday of the month through the summer and show a movie in the park also when it gets dark.Such a beautiful campground!
Had a great time and I am already planning when we can go again!
I decided to stay in a state park near Monument Rocks Natural Landmark, I could not believe this beautiful (not flat) spot was in Kansas and was hoping to return if we liked it.
Also, stay two days to see the area.
My first mistake was not working harder to reserve a spot beforehand, so far we had zero trouble finding spots so I did not think it would be a big deal.
My second was travelling there on Thanksgiving, everything was closed, and we were all hungry because I was going to make Thanksgiving meal when we got to our spot…
We got to Lake Scott State Park and it looked super promising but then we started see the dreaded “R” for reserved on every single site.
Maybe three other families were there so we had no clue why everything said that but they had signs saying to not park in one of those spots.
We drove around for probably an hour (while hungry) trying to figure out how to get a spot.
I found their system super confusing and of course there was no one around to clarify.
We finally parked in a spot with no electric (thankfully I was not counting on the microwave to make any of the meal) and I set about trying to deep breath past the stress of the last hour and hurriedly get food cooking.
Nick was kind of done with Kansas after that.
We did everything I wanted to do in two days, in one.
It was a beautiful, interesting area though!
The Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park and Monument Rocks where so pretty to see.
There was also a pueblo at Lake Scott, the farthest east they have found one.
Super interesting.
I am glad I got to see it, just wish their system was not so confusing.
I was super thankful to head to an Oklahoma State Park the next day!
It made me grateful for our easy to use system!
Anyone know why Kansas would say they were all reserved?
