Run With The Fishes

Since my blogging has been lacking over the summer, I thought I would do a few posts with monthly wrap ups for July and August and get back up to speed. My problem is, I feel like I need to write about everything that has already happened before writing about current stuff. Which just starts a whole vicious circle. If I get all caught up, maybe I can stay that way. Although, if my cleaning my house is any example, it will just fall right back behind in 4 days or so.

July was mostly all about our vacation. Sure we went to Dallas for the fourth of July and spent some time with all of our friends watching some great fireworks, Nathan and Zoey went to a few of the local camps offered, and Allison went to her swimming lessons and the library. You know, usual summer activities. That stuff is all fine and dandy. It also keeps us all pretty busy but doesn’t quite measure up to a full week off from work visiting fun places and meeting a new nephew.

We started our vacation by driving to Lawton, OK. Greg (and his family) are all from the Lawton area. It wasn’t quite our destination, but was so close on our drive that we took a detour. Greg drove us around the neighborhoods where he lived. We stopped and played at a few parks, visited the Museum of the Great Plains and saw some prairie dogs.

After this we decided to have the world famous Meers Burgers for lunch. They were alright, but the fried green tomatoes were better. On our way to Meers we stopped at Medicine Park. Allison was so mad that we didn’t have our swimsuits on because it looked like great fun jumping from the rocks.

Those places were just stops along the way to the Wildlife Refuge.

We went on some hiking trails. Greg says that as a kid they used to play in this man-made forest. I’m sure it must have been a pretty cool site to see all of those pine trees. I mean, what a change from the normal landscape around that area.

I saw this freaky lizard and was determined to get a picture of it. I had to use my super quiet Indian-sneak walk to get close enough.

We watched the buffalo roam, and took a scary drive to the top of Mt. Scott. Not scary for anyone else, just me. I hate drives like that and this vacation was FULL of them. Even though the curves are irrationally terrifying to me, the view at the top is always worth it.