Life with Lydia

My friends kindly invited me to come along with them to Beaver's Bend State Park for their weekend vacation. We stayed at a lodge in Oklahoma's beautiful Oachita forest. Climbed up the stairs to get to the beautiful lodge. The trees were still much taller than the lodge though. Adele has grown so much since I saw her last, but she is still as cute as ever. :) Katie, Deborah, Emmaline hanging out on the porch Below: Trying to carry Debs around- yikes! And.. having S'mores around the campfire We took some tubes to Beaver's Bend River. It was gorgeous! Raining Tubing over the waterfalls and down the rushing river was so much fun! The water was really cold, and was rushing fast, but that made it even more fun! Matching braids :) Back at the lodge. A little sore from hitting rocks while tubing, especially those who went countless times, aka Deborah. Happy little Philip :) Elisha and...

After the festival, I stayed in Florida for an extra day, and went to Hollywood Beach!  My Couchsurfing host let me borrow her bike. iPhone photo FYI, none of the pictures from my trip are edited. I had to go through 500+ pictures from both my phone and camera as it was. They weren't too many people where I was, which was nice. ~Waves~ It didn't get deep quickly, so I walked very far out, but didn't risk taking my camera. Looking back from the ocean's perspective. Watching the bridge go up (when I was biking to the beach) Waiting for the bridge to go down, so I can bike over it (on my way back). The boat that had just gone under the bridge. A pretty cool pool. And there's the ocean. That FL sun was hot! I got so sunburned that I was in bed for a few days afterwards. Looking at the menu Lainie and I! Lainie had just gotten a GoPro camera. The poo...