InLaws arrive today

ScottA · July 25, 2008, 02:54:39 PM

My wife's parents are flying in from Germany today. Niether of them speaks english. This week should be interesting. Taking them to cowboy day in town tomorrow for chuck wagon chilli dinner and other official cowboy stuff. To be followed by a full week of Scott's Okie tours of the wild west. I hope they survive.

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 25, 2008, 04:39:20 PM

Scott, why don't you take them noodling while your at it?

July 25, 2008, 05:26:30 PM

Oh they'd love that. Soooo... Gunther want to go fishing? We don't need no stinking poles.

glenn kangiser · July 25, 2008, 10:10:06 PM

Long flight -- I bet their arms will be tired.

Redoverfarm · July 25, 2008, 10:16:30 PM

Sort of like the saying " run into to town for a few things". My legs get tired.

July 25, 2008, 10:20:11 PM

I know it was stupid but I couldn't stop myself.

ScottA · July 25, 2008, 10:29:30 PM

Glenn you where right. They are tired. Already went to bed.

glenn kangiser · July 25, 2008, 11:02:45 PM

[idea] Well I guess I should never have doubted my brilliance. I said I wasn't going to do that again.

Redoverfarm · July 26, 2008, 08:50:08 PM

In Laws enjoying their stay. Had a good friend who's wife was from Germany. Her family is still over their. In fact they own a house therer they are renting out. He passed on a few years ago and I lost contact with his wife. I wonder if she went back. Said the weather was not that different over there than here. Let me know how much it cost to ship a horse back home with them.

July 26, 2008, 09:36:05 PM

LOL her dad was talking about buying a saddle earlier tonight. We went to a western trade day with lots of tack and such for sale. He bought a hand made leather belt from a guy in a top hat wearing a colt 45 on his hip. Made the belt to order on the spot. They loved that. Got pics taken by a stage coach etc.

glenn kangiser · July 27, 2008, 01:59:13 AM

That's cool.

Tell the little wife hi for us crazy guys, eh

ScottA · July 27, 2008, 09:21:22 PM

Today was road trip adventure day. Took everyone back into the hills to explore some smaller lakes and streams I know about. Also did a little Stephen King side trip to the end of the world as my father in law called it. He actualy took video of this place after he said that.

There are some seriously scary remote places in Oklahoma.

ScottA · July 28, 2008, 06:12:13 PM

A little lighter schedule today. Went up to Spavinaw state park and had a picnic and went swiming for a couple of hours. Then headed up to grand lake for some beers at a lakeside pub. It's been a pretty good day.

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 28, 2008, 07:12:58 PM

Quote from: ScottA on July 27, 2008, 09:21:22 PM
Today was road trip adventure day. Took everyone back into the hills to explore some smaller lakes and streams I know about. Also did a little Stephen King side trip to the end of the world as my father in law called it. He actualy took video of this place after he said that. There are some seriously scary remote places in Oklahoma.

Ever been to Eagle, OK Scott?

July 28, 2008, 08:11:24 PM

Doesn't ring any bells HG. But that don't mean much. I'm sure there are plenty of places in OK I've been to and forgoten.

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 28, 2008, 08:58:32 PM

I asked because when I was younger, I worked summers for OU's biological station at Lake Texoma. We took a group of highschool kids collecting plants in a swamp near Eagle. We saw pot growing on the way in, but assumed it was wild until two GOBs showed up and held us at gunpoint until we got all the kids back in the van and left. I kept thinking that no one would ever in a million years find our bodies.

considerations · July 28, 2008, 11:04:06 PM

We have some places like that out here. Maybe thats where the saying "don't go there" came from.

apaknad · July 29, 2008, 08:22:20 AM

hi HT,

pardon my lack of savvy but what's GOB's. seems like there's alot of these types of acronyms on these posts that i don't understand. some times i think my dummy double takes over my body

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 29, 2008, 09:28:56 AM

That one wasn't invented by the text message generation because I can remember Mom using it when I was kneehigh to a bowlegged frog...GOB is shorthand for Good ol' Boys. You know, the types that go by "Bubba".

hope that clarifies it a bit.

apaknad · July 29, 2008, 10:36:06 AM

thanx ht. makes that whole thing about finding pot make sense now to a THSOG
(thick headed slow old guy).

July 29, 2008, 04:16:22 PM

I like that one... may have to use it sometime. Don threw me for a loop the first time he posted OMMV. I sat there scratching my head and trying to figure it out and finally had to ask. In case you haven't run across that one yet, it is "other's mileage may vary".

So Scott, what did y'all do today with the inlaws? Sounds like you're way better hosts than DH and I were when his mom was here, but a good deal of that was timing (new baby, new job, just moved, no money, etc.)

ScottA · July 29, 2008, 09:37:13 PM

Today we went to Woolaroc http://www.woolaroc.org/ up near Bartlesville. The germans got to shoot a cap lock throw a tommyhawk and see real live Buffalos up close among other things like shrunken heads. Was my MIL first time to fire a gun. After we went to Tulsa and the Mall for shopping and then dinner and back home.

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 29, 2008, 10:32:39 PM

Woolaroc is on my list of places I want to go. Have you ever been to Pawnee to the Pawnee Bill Mansion and museum? It's really a neat place, and the inlaws might enjoy it if they aren't already "wild wested out". I haven't taken my kids there since my oldest one was a baby, so we're due for a return trip. Took a group of students to the Gilcrease one time, too, and they liked it a lot. Wichita Mt. Wildlife reserve is a really nice area too, but a little far from your side of the state... probably would make a better weekend or overnighter. I don't know how the sunset was from Tulsa tonight but from here it was incredible. That was one of my MIL's favorite things here was the sunrises and sunsets, and I don't take them for granted anymore either after having lived up north for three years.

ScottA · July 29, 2008, 10:57:01 PM

Woolaroc is one of those places you just have to experience. Not only is there so much to see but the staff is unreal in how friendly, helpful and caring they are that you enjoy your visit. I don't know of any other place you can drive through a heard of Buffalo. There is no fence between you and them. I've never been to Pawnee so no I haven't done that one yet. We're going to stay closer to home tomorrow then do a route 66 trip on thursday. Not all the way but a days worth anyhow.

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 30, 2008, 10:56:26 AM

In the Wichita Mt. reserve, you can drive through the buffalo herds. I got about five feet from one to get a close-up picture... he was standing at the wrong angle, so I got out and walked around until he looked at me. Also down in that part of the state is Meers, OK... it's a unique little place in the middle of nowhere.

Pawnee would be a nice day trip.

I don't know which way you're going to go on 66, but if you come this way, Pops is pretty interesting (though it is fairly new). There's also the round barn at Arcadia. There's probably a lot of other fun stuff that I don't know about because I've lived not far off of Rt. 66 most of my life, so I sort of take it for granted. Pops is new since I went to WI. Took my MIL there and she really liked it. Food is mediocre, but all the different flavors of pop are kind of interesting, and the architecture is wild (whose idea was it to build an all glass building in torado alley??) When we first moved back to OK, they had a lot better menu, but they recently changed it and it is just so-so. My thinking is that they changed it as a means of crowd control... get people in and out in a hurry.

We took MIL to Sulphur to Chickasaw National Rec Area and to Arbuckle Lake, and she seemed to enjoy both even though she complained about how cold the spring water was. Neither one has a day use fee, and on weekdays they are not crowded. But, if you swim in the warm springs at the park, be prepared to smell like sulfur water (rotten eggs

). It is supposed to be good for what ails you.

Broken Bow is also a great place to go... DH and I spent a few days down there on our honeymoon and usually try to go camping down there in the summer at least once a year. The canoe trips are fun, and you can take all day, or just part of the day if you want. Also, you can go trout fishing there on the Mountain Fork. If you're on the canoe trip, and you decide to fish before the railroad trestle about halfway down the run, you'll need a trout stamp, but after the trestle you can fish without it. That river is lousy with fish. I remember DH leaning out of the canoe trying to catch them with his hands because we ran off and left our rods and reels at the camp! On the weekends, the park is overrun with Texans... you'll be lucky if you find a place to camp. They have hiking trails, paddle boats, horseback riding, and so forth. Golf, if you're into that sort of thing. The swimming area is COLD as anything though! When DD was about six months old we went camping down there one time for over a week in one of the really primitive camping areas. We decided to go swimming one afternoon after no luck trout fishing all morning. Her lips turned blue in the water though it was over 100 degrees outside. She was shivering, so I worried about her getting too cold, but every time I took her out of the water, she would cry. She loved playing in it even though she was freezing. Well, after about an hour we decided we'd best go back to camp. She promptly fell asleep and slept from then until morning. We were worried sick, but I think she was just worn out from swimming. The only thing with staying down there is that you need to put all your food in the vehicle and lock it up. The darn raccoons and bears are pretty bold. We were sitting there having supper one night when a little paw comes up over the end of the table we were sitting at. After groping around for a few seconds, the paw settled on a package of cookies, and took two. Five minutes later, there were four coons all trying to steal food while we were still eating. DH wouldn't listen to me when I told him that all the food had to go in the car... we'd had to hike in to our camp site and he didn't want to take it all back out. Needless to say, he woke me up at two in the morning when the racoons had figured out how to unzip the tent and come and feast on our food. There were at least two in the tent with their friends waiting outside for them to hand food out.

Have fun today on Rt. 66.