Kdog

A couple of quick things about Kona. I was laying on the couch on Saturday watching the OSU/Georgia game (GO POKES!) and every time I would get riled up about something I got the following look from the dog:

So sorry to disturb your nap, your highness.

We took the video below yesterday - Kona had been sitting on the couch next to Nathan but for some reason decided to come over and jump up in the middle of my stomach and all of the newspapers I had spread out. He laid down like you see and if I wasn't petting him, he was "talking" to me. You may have to turn the sound up to hear him but you'll probably also see shaking...that's because I couldn't stop laughing at him.

Labor Day Weekend

Yesterday we went on a mini-tour of Oklahoma. We picked up our friends early yesterday morning and headed for Hinton. We went to Red Rock Canyon State Park, intending to do a little hiking. Turns out, there are two trails in that park, one of them is pretty short, the other we have no idea how long it is because after we followed a barbed wire fence for a while we decided that one might not be our favorite thing to do. The pics below are actually in reverse order of the way they happened but I'm feeling too lazy today to cut and paste them in the correct order so here you go.

Nathan and I outside the park.

The Hinton Coop (I assume, since that's what the sign says).

Lana enjoying being taller than me (thanks to a slanted rock).

Benj and Lana outside the park.

This is the trail we hiked all the way through. I really felt like we were in the jungle for a while...the water grass was taller than me!

Nathan hiking. :)

This one is part way along the trail that we did not complete - directly behind us is a straight drop off. This particular area is used often for rappelling. I wish I had the tools and skills to do this because I think it would be way fun.

Benj and Lana - nice view from up here. Oh, also, at the bottom of this drop off there was a family camping...a very loud family. The park was way more crowded than we anticipated.

Another shot of the view - I love that we've had so much rain this summer because things are still green and pretty!

Since we were bad and skipped church we did have communion up on top of this rock. Nice place to enjoy the view of God's creation!

Last night we went to Stillwater to take Benj and Lana to eat at Eskimo Joe's. It was YUMMY! We had some sweet peppered bacon cheese fries, I had an Elm St. Fowl Thing, Nathan had a pork sandwich, Lana had a turkey melt (that was fabulous) and Benj had a burger, then we finished it off with a slice of buttermilk pie shared between the four of us. None of us had ever had it before and we thought it might be interesting. It was actually really good but we all agreed that one slice would be too much for one person - it's very sweet. Big thanks to our server Kevin who recommended the turkey melt for L and the pie for all of us, and who was very patient with our silliness. Unfortunately I did not take any pictures of this outing because by the time it was over we couldn't move and there was no amount of sucking it in that would make us feel presentable enough for a picture. :)