Robby had just closed his eyes for the night so I rolled over so the light from my phone wouldn't bother him. That is when I saw my computer and realized that I had not even thought about doing the blog tonight.
So it is a bit late, but better late than never. We had a fairly slow morning-I had yogurt and granola for breakfast while Robby opted for a honey bun today. He did some work, and then we loaded up to take a drive to Oklahoma.
There are 3 ways to Queen Wilhelmina state park-the short, straight up, very curvy path with no shoulder or guard rails that we took up here; the longer well maintained, curvy road that we drove yesterday and will drive tomorrow; and today's adventure.
The third way to leave Queen Wilhelmina is to head towards Oklahoma along with Telemena scenic byway. It is a 54 mile stretch that winds through the Ouachita Mountains in Oklahoma and Arkansas. Another name for this byway could be "the deserted byway" because we saw 2 cars and 1 tractor on the whole 54 miles. It was kind of eerie.
We even stopped at a nature center that was shut up like a ghost town. There were not even trash cans there-so Bentley left them a present. It was odd and a little bit spooky. We have had limited cell service on this trip, so I'm glad that Robby had his new starlink toy with us.
When we made it off of the byway, we drove through the town of Talehina-it was pretty small. Very small. They did have a start park nearby so we stopped there for lunch. Since it cost 10 dollars to park, we opted to just eat in the car. However, it was also deserted so no one would have known if we didn't pay. I'm a bit worried about the people of Oklahoma. Hopefully, they were all at work today and have not been abducted.
We came back to the camper a different way-it was flat, and there were cars. For supper tonight, we had mashed potatoes and meatballs. We heard thunder and looked to see a storm rolling in, but it never came to us. The weather was still nice this evening so we were able to walk to the lodge again and sit on the porch for a while.
When we came back to the camper, Robby made some chocolate chip cookies, and I completely forgot about the blog.
I have heard from all of the kids today. Anderson and Graham both sent pictures. They said that they helped move some dirt this morning. Campbell did a lot of canvasing the neighborhood. Whitman and Keaton worked in a school-she organized a shelf, and he carried boxes. And Reagan only has a few more days left of work!
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