Weekend Away

We decided to get out of town this past weekend and make a little trip to the Witchita Mountains. We couldn't have asked for better weather, lots of sun but slightly cool. The kids had a ton of fun, there was a lot of climbing and they were so excited to just run. We stayed in a hotel but spent most of our time enjoying our surroundings.

After having a nice slow morning at the hotel we made it to the Witchita Wildlife preserve and tackled Elk Mountain. Ron loves this hike....I on the other hand always forget how long it is. We did make it to the top-all the kids in one piece. Ron took Brayden in search of a couple arches at the top. I found a spot in the sun with the girls and we enjoyed some fall sun rays.

Brayden loved all the climbing. Even Becca got into the whole exploring and really was able to keep up and had a lot of fun climbing behind Brayden.

We saw some Buffalo and long horn cows right along side the road. Lots of fun to have them cross right in front of your car. Andrea was most excited about the babies and how they drink milk.

We made a stop to watch the prairie dogs run around. We had just read the sign that told us all the dangers about feeding them and how important it was to let them find their own food when a family unloaded with about three sleeved of saltines and promptly walked in the middle of the field and began feeding the animals. There were signs and fences all over???

Ron took his bike along and biked through the preserve and finished by biking up Mt Scott. I think it took him about 20min to make it to the top and about 5 min to the bottom at around 35mph.

Hmmmm, they did need a little help getting down at times.

This is my little guy, getting bigger but still always the little explorer. He had found a little pool of water at the top of this rock.

This was a hike the kids did with Ron Sunday morning before we headed out on the drive back to Tulsa. It was a four hour drive filled with lots of video's. It was definitely a nice break from our normal Tulsa adventures.