We recently took a trip to the Arbuckle Mountains down in Sulphur, Oklahoma. If you've never been down there, it's an experience you won't soon forget. Why? The streams in Sulphur smell like rotten eggs! I'm serious, totally like undigested sour rotten festering eggs. Ugh! But this spot has been a popular tourist attraction for years b/c of it's reported "healing powers" and health benefits the streams provide. The rocks below have an unnaturally high concentration of minerals which drew thousands of sick people in the early parts of the 20th century to take a swim in the waters in hopes it would make them feel better.
Not sure why smelling like feces would be an enjoyable thing, but hey I can't say much b/c we went anyway. :) There are several places where the beginning of a spring is at. The water is insanely cold but it is pure and crystal clear. Near the nature center there are a couple of spots where you can sit and put your feet into the bubbling water and I've got to tell you, it really is a refreshing experience. On the day we went, the rain clouds were starting to sprinkle so we didn't get any pics of the springs but you should check them out sometime. I remember when I was a very small child, my family took a trip down there (cheap vacation, huh?) with my Grandparents and we toured the whole area. I've got a picture of it somewhere. 
Anyway, there was this area that I could never remember where it was at. It turns out that my dad remembered where it was so we stopped by. Bromide Hill is a rocky outcropping that is basically a hundred feet or so above the town of Sulphur and gives you a view of miles and miles away. It makes you feel like you are standing on top of the world! We took some pics there and headed down to "Little Niagara", which is a small water fall that is popular b/c of its jumping off points and the arctic temperature of the water! We didn't do any jumping in but we did wade around and watch the local wildlife, I mean, teenagers do tricks and dives before a crowd of people. Back in my younger days, I would have been right there with them but little Makenna didn't enjoy the cold water so much. No biggie, we had fun nonetheless. Here is a link to our set on Flickr of the pics we took that day. Enjoy!The 4th of July was actually pretty boring around our household. The weekend of Makenna's birthday party, Kimi and little Makenna headed down to Texas to spend some time with GRAMMI AND GRANDPA while dad got to pretend he was a bachelor for a few days! It wasn't much of a bachelor party though b/c there were still a list of chores I was required to do but still, I took up the whole bed to myself and slept like a baby! I also got some good XBOX Live time in with my bro, but that's a different story. On the 4th, Kimi and Makenna flew back in but had a very rough flight so I treated the girls to lunch at Cracker Barrel.
It was so funny watching Makenna starting to eat table food instead of her baby food. There are some things she LOVES and others that she's not too fond of. For example, we gave here some scrambled eggs and carrots to eat. Wouldn't you know, she meticulously picked through the eggs and grabbed every single carrot and threw it on the floor while shaking her head no! I couldn't hardly believe it! She is becoming so independent and making her likes and dislikes known. At home she throws pieces of her food onto the floor for the doggies to eat up. And when we tell her "no no", she just shakes her head back and forth, as if she understands what we are saying but it doesn't quite register we actually mean STOP! Haha! We are also trying to teach her how to drink out of a cup without a lid, yikes... she likes to tip the cup up like she does with her bottles but she ends up wearing her drink instead! I can tell we're going to have some fun times in the future with food and drinks. (Say a prayer for our sanity, would ya?)Lastly, I wanted to share a video we took from this last month when we got to catch an Oklahoma Redhawks game with Makenna. She was dancing to AC/DC's Back in Black. You gotta love this! :)
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