More buffalo stampede in Bartlesville

We head up to Bartlesville every other month or so to eat at Murphy's Steakhouse and we always try to find a new buffalo art piece.  We heard they are going to have a total of 25 and that they have around 15 or so that are complete.  For more info read this.

"Tree of Life"

Sponsor: Kenneth and Diana Adams

Artist: Marilyn King

Located at Bartlesville First Presbyterian Church, corner of 5th and Dewey   Every buffalo is totally different from the next, this one was covered with beautiful flowers!

"Amadeus"


Sponsor: Class 13 of Leadership Bartlesville

Artist: Kristin Radaker

Located at the corner of 6th and Dewey     This one had the song Oklahoma on it!

"Frankie"


Sponsor: Pete and Theo Silas

Artist: Lisa Fox

Located at the corner of 6th and Dewey This was a beautiful pattern.

Had to pose with the Philips 66 sign

"Van Gogh-falo"


Sponsor: Musselman Abstract Artist: Cindy Bennett

Located at Sears Park, corner of Cherokee and Adams   This was a detailed painting of Bartlesville's famous buildings as well as some Van Gogh similarities.

"Up and Away"

Sponsor: Remax of Bartlesville

Artist: Cindy Bennett

Located at Remax of Bartlesville, ?1809 Southeast Washington Boulevard?

and last but not least a REMAX buffalo.

McLinky Monday-Trips on a tankful

It's Monday again and that means McLinky Monday with the girls over at the RHOK and today they are asking what is your favorite one tank road trip?  I have a bunch that I like, not just one.
Here they are
1. Blue Hole but only in warm weather

2. Totem Pole Park if we are looking for a great picnic spot

3. Osage Hills State Park to go hiking and picnic and you can camp or rent a cabin too and you can stop in Bartlesville on the way and then you go head on up to the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve and see all the buffalo.

4. Jasmine Moran Children's Museum is fun for the kiddos and the adults as well.

5. Little House on the Prairie in Independence, KS is always fun.  We've gone several times and love it!

We have some more favorites but they might be trips on a tank and a 1/2 or 2 tanks...LOL!

Answers to Blue Hole questions

UPDATE: Prices have changed.  It's $10 per car to get in, $15 per night to camp with no electric and $20 per night with electric.

I have been getting a lot of emails about the Blue Hole in Salina, OK so here are some answers to the many questions.

1. Q:  Is it really cold?  A: Yes, it's spring fed so it's really cold and feels great on these hot 100 degree days!

2. Q: How much is it?  A: $5 per carload for the day and $10 to camp overnight

3. Q: What are the hours? A: Sunday-Thursday 9am-9pm and Friday and Saturday 9am-10pm and they usually close for the winter after Labor Day weekend

4. Q: Do they have bathrooms? A: Yes, but they aren't always reliable, sometimes they are closed and most of the time no toilet paper (hint... bring your own)

5. Q: Do they have a place to buy food? A: Yes, it's concession type food like popcorn, pizza, hamburgers, snow cones, french fries, etc and they have very reasonable prices.  You also have the option of bringing food in and yes they have picnic tables but they don't have a lot of them.

6. Q: What do I need to bring?  A: This is what I personally like to bring, drinks (no alcohol permitted), snacks, bug spray, sunblock or sunscreen, towels, a blanket for the kids to rest on, chairs (the ones in the bag that you bring to ball games sit very well in the shallow water), floats, rafts, inner tube, floaties or life vest for little ones(it does get deep in the middle), crock shoes or swim shoes (the waterfall area is very slick), my kids like to bring goggles so they can dive down and look for fish (the water is very clear and you can see everything),a bucket to hold the minnows that the kids catch, a small net to chase minnows with and I usally bring bandaids and some small type of first aide kit too.

7. Q: How do I get there?  A: From Tulsa, go east on RT 412 to Locust Grove then north (left turn) on RT 82 to Salina. In Salina, find Kenwood Rd. and go east for about 7 miles to the park.

We come from Owasso so we just head to Claremore on Hwy 20 and just take 20 East to Salina, when we are in Salina we just follow the road all the way to the 4 way stop and keep going straight and then follow the winding road for 7 miles and Blue Hole is on the right side.

8. Q: What is the phone #?  A: 918-434-5507 and the owners name is Wanda!

9. Q: Is there really a rope swing? A: Yes, follow the creek that leads out of the Blue Hole and it leads to a smaller hole and that's where the rope swing is at. UPDATE:I'm sad to say that the rope swing is now gone.  A storm came through and the large tree that the rope swing hung on was destroyed.


If you have anymore questions please email me and I will try to find out for you!

Blue Hole

Thanks to a friend we found out about the Blue Hole last year, I have to say it's probably the coldest water in Oklahoma that we've found but it's so much fun and soooo refreashing on these hot 100 degree days!!! We take Hwy 20 toward Pryor then head to Salina and the Blue Hole is seven miles east of Salina on Kenwood Road. It's only $5 per carload to get in and they don't allow alcohol, drugs, etc. so it's a family friendly place BUT I had never been on the weekend and it's VERY busy! If you can sneak away on a weekday it's not that busy. I'm hoping to head back out to the Blue Hole this summer with our homeschool group and another time with some more friends!
This time we were enjoying our swim and visiting with our friends Matt and Sarah and all of the sudden Kevin says, "We gotta get out right now and leave!" I'm thinking he's crazy because we had only been swimming for about 1 hour and I really wanted to stay for longer, then he tells me to look at the sky....it was turning black, a storm was headed our way. So we all get out and get in the suburban and leave and as soon as we get on the road the heavens open up and it is a MAJOR downpour! We decide to stop at a place called Pig N Out in Salina...funny name but REALLY yummy food and it was so unbelievably cheap too! Kevin and Matt were kind enough to get out in the rain and order for us and then stand around and wait while our order is being prepared.

Tall Grass Prairie

While staying at Osage Hills State Park we decided to take a small day trip to Pawhuska, OK and visit the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve it was so fitting since we have been using the Prairie Primer curriculum this year, we had a lot of things to talk about and study while at the preserve. My favorite things was the buffalo and of course since we have studied them we found out that their true name is bison not buffalo. They had over 2600 bison just wondering around on the prairie and it was beautiful with the baby calves running around...we loved it.

The little cabin

Last week Kevin was on vacation and we had a lot of things to do around our house and we are still looking at houses so that took up a lot of last week but we really wanted to get away and only had 2 days to do it. Kevin came up with the idea that we would rent a cabin at Osage Hills State Park and it was a wonderful idea! We had a great time hiking, roasting hot dogs and making s'mores, geocaching, fishing, playing at the parks (they had several at the camp grounds) we recommend it to everyone that lives in the area. The rangers were so nice and helpful and even checked to make sure we were having a good time and no problems! We took a lot of pics so enjoy!!

Woolaroc 2010

Our homeschool group planned a field trip to Woolaroc! Woolaroc was established in 1925 as the ranch retreat of oilman Frank Phillips. The ranch is a 3,700 acre wildlife preserve.
The mountain men just happened to be camping out so we visited them and learned so many interesting things from them. A couple of things we learned were how to shoot a rifle and how to throw a tomahawk. Then, we went on to the museum, had a picnic lunch and explored the property. It was a BEAUTIFUL day and we enjoyed spending time with Grammy, Devin, Paige and Brook (cousins).

Owasso Historical Museum

This was a children's pew at the Mennonite Church

This window was taken from the Mennonite Church that is now Discovery Bible Fellowship where we attend church

This month has been full of field trips to museums and as we were driving down Main St. in Owasso we wondered why we haven't ever been to our towns museum? HMMMM, we better stop now because we saw the open sign on the sidewalk. The Owasso Historical Museum is a neat little museum and the ladies were so helpful and told us a lot of information about the things we were looking at. We will be back to enjoy it when we have more time.