The kids were out of school for
three days for Fall Break and since Enid is still a new place for us, we found
lots of new adventures to take. Josh
picked up a State Park Passport at one of his newcomer’s briefings. It has listed all the State parks in OK by region.
We live in the Red Carpet region so we focused on our area first. Each state park has a list of activities to
complete while there and a sticker to collect for the passport. As we accumulate visits to the parks, we can
redeem up to nine tokens representing our adventures. In three days, we traveled to four state
parks. Josh was even able to take two
days of work off to join us.
We
traveled to Roman Nose, named for a Cherokee Chief, and one of the seven
original state parks. We did a little
hike to the dam of the lake. Unfortunately,
we did not time this visit well as the paddle boats and miniature golf were
only open on weekends.
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| The weather is beautiful now. The humidity has decreased the days have been mild and sunny |
We went to
Boiling Springs, took two lovely hikes, and enjoyed the gift shop. We also saw the bubbling spring in the well which
used to be a larger geyser at one time.
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| We have not seen a lot of fall colors yet so this tree was a lovely sight |
We went to Gloss Mountain and walked up
the steep stairs to the top of the plateau for the view. It was lovely, and vast, and flat. The kids enjoyed looking for the scattered
selenite that sparkles in the sun. Sometimes
when we would step onto the rock, it would sound hollow.
Lastly, we traveled to
Alabaster Caverns where we took a tour into the cave made of gypsum. Gypsum caves do not have growing structures
so we could run our hands over every surface.
We enjoyed seeing the domes in the ceiling of the cave made by the
whirlpooling water. The kids enjoyed
seeing the bats in the cave starting their hibernation.
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| No cameras allowed in the cave so you will just have to travel here to see for yourself! |
