Will Rogers house- missed it by that much!

We drove out to Oolagah today, the town just north of us to show Felicia Will Roger's birth home. it took a while to get there and we were coming straight from Totem Pole Park, not very close by. When we got to the home it was 4:40. the gates were closed, they decided to close 20 minutes early today! We've been there a few times before, it's a working farm and the girls were looking forward to petting the animals and chasing the chickens. Bummer! We drove back through "downtown" Oolagah, there are about 4 buildings there. Karianne asked if we could stop and take their picture in front of the "dollhouse". Right on the highway is a miniature replica of Will Roger's house. So we all got out and took pictures in front of the house. At least Felicia kinda got to see his house. :-)

Totem Pole Park

We went down Route 66 today to another roadside attraction, Totem Pole Park. It's a park with a giant totem pole made out of concrete built in the 1940's.

Here's an excerpt from it's website:

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and claiming the title of the World’s Largest Concrete Totem Pole, the park features a 90 foot totem pole that towers over the park in a vivid array of folk art colors.

Ed Galloway built the totem pole over an 11 year period from 1937 to 1948, utilizing some 28 tons of cement, six tons of steel, and 100 tons of sand and rock. His tribute to the American Indian features 200 carved pictures, with four nine-foot Indians near the top each representing a different tribe.


The base of the totem pole is a huge turtle, Angie was very scared of him and would not walk by him.


Here's two of the girls climbing their first tree

Sports Camp

I haven't posted this week because we have been doing Sports Camp at church this week- our version of VBS. Brent has been using our camera there all week so I haven't had it to snap pics of our girls. They had fun at sports camp, learned new songs, told us some bible stories they learned and they are feeling very sporty. Every day we would get to church they would grab a basketball and dribble and kick the balls around and they'd try to make baskets too. :-)

Aquadoodle

Here's the girls playing with a table sized aquadoodle their aunts gave them. Brent has fun drawing Star Trek ships on it too. :-)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

At the end of a full day yesterday, Brent's sisters and I went to Discoveryland to watch a live production of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It is performed in an outdoor ampitheater all summer long with performances of Oklahoma! on the weekends. It's one of the must see things here and I'm glad they were able to check that off of their list.

Busy Day

We went to Independence, Kansas yesterday. We visited THE Little house on the Prairie and then we went to a really nice community park they have there complete with waterpark. I hadn't been on one of those old playgrounds with the really tall metal slides in a LONG time. The slides were really tall. They were also very hot so Brent and I raced a couple times on the slides sitting on towels. Maybe he'll upload the video sometime soon. We had a full day.

Little House on the Prairie

We took Brent's sisters to the "Little House on the Prairie". It's the Ingalls family homestead in Independance, Kansas. I think I read one book. I never got into it, so these pictures are for Amanda, who read all the books and wanted to write her own book about a heroine named "Cordelia". :-) Sorry Amanda, if I embarrass you let me know and I'll delete the post. :-)

Brent's sisters are fanatical fans of the Little House books so they enjoyed it thoroughly.

Lucy

I love this picture of Lucy. It was taken in front of The Laura Ingalls House. She did a really great job sitting up by herself.

Gettin our Kicks on Route 66

We took Brent's sisters down Route 66 today. Our local route 66 destination is the Blue Whale in Catoosa. He's a big whale in an old swimming hole with slides and water spouts coming off him. It's closed down now but visitors are still welcome to visit him, just no swimming aloud. There used to be a Noah's Ark there as well that housed a small zoo. Watch out I think that whale is going for Karianne's snack!

Tuesday at the Zoo

Actually it was very VERY hot so we were just there or maybe an hour and a half. Besides being very hot we had fun. Again, it was very helpful to have Brent's two sisters there. We had a double stroller and two single strollers to push all the girls around the zoo.