A couple of weekends ago we headed up to the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma to go camping with Mimi, Poppa, Haley and Ryan. We made camp fires, roasted marshmallows and hotdogs, went hiking, and ate some great food. Ryan was able to utilize some of his past Boy Scout experience and treated us with some tasty grub. We also saw, stalked and eventually hand-fed some deer that kept hanging out by our campsite.
Mimi and Poppa brought their travel trailer, and we and Haley and Ryan brought tents. Grady slept in the RV both nights...mostly because I don't think he would have ever slept in the tent. Taylor was sooo excited about sleeping in the tent with me and Tyson that I didn't think she'd ever stop talking and go to sleep!! She was pretty bummed b/c Tyson and I made her sleep in the RV the second night.....it was pretty cold that night and we wanted to sleep on something softer than the ground!
The main reason we went was to hear the elk bugling, and if we happened to see some elk, that would be alright, too! We accomplished both!! We could hear elk day and night....especially at night. The guys had gone scouting earlier in the day on Saturday to find a possible spot where we might find some elk, so just before sunset we packed the crew up and headed that way. Just when we were about to move on, a lone elk appeared on the horizon. We were all so excited!! Taylor especially was pumped! She grabbed the binoculars from Tyson and was able to spot the elk (pretty difficult since the elk was approximately 300 yards from us). She looked so cute with the binoculars! Not long after that, we saw three more elk; one with a pretty nice rack.
All in all, it was a great trip. No major glitches....except for some raccoons getting into the dog food the last night we were there (our fault for leaving it out) and almost having to amputate Belle and Gabby's toes from a slotted bridge that we crossed while on a hike with the kids. The kids had so much fun!! Taylor was pretty depressed when we had to go home!!
