Trip to Andrea's with Grands

Following our family reunion in San Antonio, Stacey and Darren flew back to Florida, while we traveled north to Oklahoma City for a visit with the Ross clan. This fulfilled one of our longtime plans and dreams: that of traveling with Grand kids AND providing the venue for all the cousins to spend more time together and draw closer to each other as family.  Meg and Ryan squaring off with the marshmallow guns we brought along.

Ashley and Reagan "in the hunt"

At "Pops", the fun restaurant on Historic Route 66.  If you can't find your favorite soft drink, it's probably not available anywhere!

We thought this picture on a bottle of pop sure looked like Ash! 

Ryan turned 7 while we were here and we celebrated at her choice: the local Japanese restaurant! 

Guess what her favorite part of the meal was!!

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Wiley Post, who was killed in the same crash that took Will Rogers, is buried here.  We were looking for geocaches in the cemetery and one is associated with this grave.  One of the most exciting aspects of the game is how it leads you to learn unanticipated new information when you're visiting new locations. Try it sometime.  (You can click on the side of this blog for more info.) 

And it's great for a grandparent-grandchild activity!

 We always stay at Arcadia's Central State Park, which has a nice swimming lake.

We had a wonderful time together, a pleasant extension of the "reunion" we never really wanted to end!