When I asked the the National Park Service Ranger at the Visitor's Center of the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge for a trail that would take about an hour and that would be appropriate for two seven-year-olds and a nine-year-old, she sent us to Little Baldy. Emilio wore the backpack we picked up at the Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center in Lawton.
First, we crossed the Quanah Parker Lake dam. At the Comanche National Museum, we learned that Quanah Parker's mother Cynthia Ann Parker starved herself to death after she was "rescued" from the Comanche tribe that killer her family and abducted her when she was Emilio's age.
We made it! It was harder that it looks.
Pablo did a good job of helping us find the path down the mountain.
In addition to our mountaineering adventures and the Family Heritage stops in Hillsboro and Wichita Falls listed earlier on this blog, this year's Spring Break featured: two Dairy Queen visits (dipped cones for me, strawberry smoothies for Nina and Emilio, french fries for Pablo), three new board game experiences: (Master's Gallery, The Hobbit Game: An Unexpected Journey, and Samarkand), enchiladas, chips and hot sauce from Mi Charrito Ray for me--thanks, Dad!, sushi for Mari, two "heated" pool swims at the Heritage Inn in Lawton, where we also held a Hot Tub Club meeting, "fire-kissed" pizzas at Firo's pizza in Lawton, Kid's Zone hide-and-seek games and obstacle course runs at Lawton's Greer Park, one roadrunner sighting and a St. Patty's Shamrock Shake at a quaint Irish restaurant in Purcell. Final result: success.
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breathtaking
Additional result: awesome photos!
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