Sept. 19 & 20

Thursday - time for a hike!  We are in a beautiful park and they have great nature trails, we had a great time hiking around part of the lake on the wooded trails.  A good workout for us, especially with the humidity.  Back to our rig, we put out the patio mat and sat outside.  We are enjoying this campsite, the lake is behind us, trees all around us and the site next door is empty.  Very quiet and relaxing.
After lunch we decided to take the boat out.   We drove over to the boat ramp/swimming area and got the Sea Eagle ready for a voyage.  We saw another kayak out on the water and other boats were putting in.  We are not far from the dam, so we headed the other direction around the park point.  It was beautiful.   The wind was picking up and we were going with the wind, so the captain decided we better head back.  Whoa!  A lot harder paddling back into the wind and waves.  The crew (me) worked hard to follow the captains's orders and soon had a blister.  Ouch.  As we headed back we could see storm clouds approaching, time to get back to land.  The other kayak and boats were going in too.
We landed and carried the boat up to a grass boulevard to clean, deflate and put away before the storm.  We just got it bagged and in the car when the rain started.  We put the car under a tree and then we sat under the picnic shelter to watch the rain.  Pretty soon it was coming in sheets and the wind was hard enough to get us wet.  When it let up we went home and settled in for rest of the storm.  (Did I tell you that our camp site was at the bottom of the hill?)  It rained really hard again and soon we had a river of mud and water running across our patio mat on its way down toward the lake.  Good thing we are on a hard pavement surface.  It continued raining on and off the rest of the evening, we stayed inside and worked on the computers.

On the hike

Our site from the hiking trail, we
are on the far right

The voyage

View of the park from the water

And the rain ran down!

Friday -  Overcast and still sprinkling.  After breakfast, Gary went out to clean up the patio mat and mud.  He ended up putting the mat over the picnic table and hosing it down, also hosed the mud off the rest of the patio/driveway area.  There was plenty to wash away.  I worked on projects inside and vacuumed the house, using our new Eureka handheld.  A lot of power, it did a great job.  The day gradually improved, two men brought in a camper trailer in the site next to us about noon and set it up - then left.  They did not come back until about 9:00 that night.  We cleaned up and went in to town in Oogolah for supper.  Found the only non fast food place, Doug's Cafe.  A small family run cafe, they had good food.  We enjoyed watching the clientele, a big table full of high school kids eating before the football game, families and older couples.  The family staff were really hustling to keep up - they did a great job.  We drove around the town afterward.  They had a statue of Will Rogers in the center of town, he is from this area.  Home and started packing up for our travel tomorrow to Coffeyville.

Our campsite - another view

The picnic table area was below the back of the motorhome