B~Family Adventures

We spent last week in the Oklahoma City area once again.  We had the pleasure of staying at one of the nicest (and most expensive!) lakes in the area.  We stayed at Arcadia Lake in Edmond, http://edmondok.com/parks/arcadialake.  It was a beautiful place, very secluded and quiet.  It was great being somewhere there was plenty of wildlife to see.  There were full hookups at each site where we were and there were two playgrounds within walking distance.  They had a bunch of great hiking trails that the kids loved.

Staying here would make us very happy except for one small detail, $200

per week is the fee, and that is with the 7th day free!

We didn't have a lot of time to check out places to stay as Heath worked late every evening.  We did get the chance to meet with a couple of people who had places for rent.  The first place we went was out of the question.  The lot itself was great, but the neighborhood was questionable at best, scary at worst.  There was no way I would have felt safe there w/ the kids. 

The second place we looked at might just be "the one".  It was near Arcadia, which is less about 5 miles from Edmond and about 15 miles or so from OKC.  Arcadia seems like a great little town, just from driving though. (http://www.townofarcadia.com/)  We do still need to look for a place on the south side of town, as that is where his boss would like him to be, but this may work for now. It is out in the country on 10 acres, so we have plenty of room to play, ride 4 wheelers and all that fun stuff. They plan on putting the place up for sale in the spring, so the temporary situation would work well for all parties involved.  It was a charming place that we would help take care of, sort of like workcamping. 

About a mile from the property is the best gas station, Pops (http://www.pops66.com/). It looks a little like something futuristic, but it has cases and cases full of glass bottled pop. They also serve great food. If you ever come to visit us, this is the one place we will have to take you. They have so many choices of pop, both normal and weird, we'll never get them all tasted, but we will certainly try We ate lunch there Sunday out on the patio in the perfect weather.

Another neat little place in Arcadia.  There were RV hookups next to this

place, but it didn't look as though they had been used in quite some time.

I know, I'm a weird dreamer, but I think it would be neat to run a B&B here.

It's on historic Route 66, so if ran right, it could be a fun little adventure.