Our Getaway to Broken Bow Oklahoma

We love road trips, so we decided it was time for another one!  Just so happened that the weekend we chose to getaway was my birthday weekend, that made it all the better!  We packed a few things, loaded the side by side up and headed to Broken Bow, Oklahoma.

We had so much fun the whole time! Starting with the trip there, we laughed and sang along with old songs on the radio.  If you want to amuse yourself, buy a dash cam and use it on road trips.  Watch back the footage and you'll crack yourself up, at least we do!  I'm pretty sure we should take our act on the road, oh wait.....we already do! :)

This is the one we have if you're interested.

As usual, I try and add a few videos and photos to my Instagram so we will have it to look back on, if you want to see some video, just look for this tab in my profile.  I'm ddcamp170 on Instagram.

First stop was to get fueled up for our trip of course and my honey bun always checks and double checks to make sure everything is strapped in good while the truck is fueling.  I'm pretty sure he's one of the safest people I know! But that's a good thing, right! :)

This is our 2016 Honda Pioneer 500 Side by Side.

Here's the little cabin we stayed in for two nights.  These are the Kiamichi Cabins and this one is named Perch Cove.  Its not like the cabin we stayed in when we visited the Smoky Mountains, but it's still cute none the less!

Here's the living area with its cute cabin vibes going on.  Such comfy couches too!

The kitchen area is all ready for your cooking needs, the only thing you need to bring is your own coffee and food!

There is a nice king size bed in the bedroom along with a TV for your lazy viewing pleasure!

Nice double vanities in the bathroom.  See the door there to the right of the picture?  That's a washer and dryer if you are going to be staying a while and need to do some laundry.

The first stop we made after we dropped off our stuff at the cabin was the ranger station for the national forest because since we brought our side by side we wanted to make sure of the places we were allowed to ride.  Also, my honey brought his drone and wanted to see where he could fly it too. No flying in the national park though! :(

We have the DGI Mavic Air Drone, click right here to see it.

When we walked up to the front door, a nice lady who works there was holding this sweet little guy who had crashed into the window and stunned himself.  I sat down and talked to them for a bit then went on inside where my honey was.  By the time we came out, he'd flown away again! Yay!  Isn't he beautiful?  They had many humming bird feeders and regular bird feeders all over the lawn around the building.  The humming bird noises were awesome!

We followed the road on around to the Beaver's Bend State Park visitor's area.  They offered a free museum all about the timber work in this area along with a little gift shop as well.  The museum was very interesting.  We love a good museum!

This big wooden totem poll greeted us as we approached.  I believe he was taller than the building!

This guy was way taller than me and he was greeting everyone who entered the building.

Inside the museum were lots of carved items from wood.  This snowman totem was so cute!

The next morning we were up and ready to go riding in the forest!  It was beautiful!  It was probably the best ride we've had, ever....well, in my opinion! lol!  All the trails look like this, fully maintained and easy to pass through with lots of tall trees.

While we were riding along we happened upon this gorgeous stream! Isn't it beautiful?  The water was so clear and refreshing.

Of course we had to take off our shoes and dip our feet in the cool water.  There were tons of sun fish babies swimming all around.  You can see some of them there by my honey's right foot.

I packed us a picnic lunch and we had that while we enjoyed the sights and sounds of the stream we stopped at.  Yummy!

Occasionally we would stop and get out and walk around.  It was gorgeous there!

 That evening we decided to eat out and we chose a restaurant called House of Burgers and Blues.  The burgers were delicious and very generous.  The waitress told us that sometimes they have live bands out in the yard on a big stage out there, unfortunately they were not there that night.

Sunday we headed home.  It was my birthday so my honey decided we would stop and eat some lunch at the Cracker Barrel.  Lunch was good!  Of course I had my honey snap a picture of my 52 year old self for the memory books.  One of these days I'm going to get me one of these Cracker Barrel rocking chairs!

Would you like to read about another road trip of ours?
Our Road Trip to the Smoky Mountains

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It doesn't have to be done all at once.  It is a slow process in the works! C-ya next time!

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Our Trip to the Pioneer Woman Mercantile

Some may not even know who the Pioneer Woman is, but I got to go visit her Mercantile for my birthday this year!  It was a fun trip for my honey and I.  This little road trip was a much needed get away from our daily rush.

If you want to know who the Pioneer Woman is, check out this post right here where I talk about my Pioneer Woman Collection.

So in case you didn't know, my honey is the best!  He planned the whole weekend out and off we went to Pawhuska Oklahoma.  Its about a five hour drive for us from Texas.

We actually left the night before we planned to visit the Merc and stayed in Tulsa Oklahoma so we wouldn't have to get up so early that day to get to the Merc in time to eat lunch.  I had read about how yummy the food was and we were on a mission to get to eat there too.  When we arrived at a little after 10am, it was already a 2 hour wait.  We decided to skip the lunch line and go on inside to look around.

TIP: If you stay in a hotel/motel/bedandbreakfast near the Merc, mention that you are visiting because we did and we got $10 off each nights stay.  We stayed in Bartlesville, OK.

Everything in there is staged so cute and of course I wanted one of everything! lol!  I restrained myself though.

All of the displays are so farmhouse/country-ish and just my style.  This little bin here is where I got something for one of my lucky readers.  Keep reading to find out how you can WIN!

Displays of so much goodness is at your every turn.  Its truly a visual overload, well, for a person like me with "butterfly syndrome"!  Everything is pretty and I wanted to touch it all!

Look at all the people!  We are standing on the stairs going up to the bakery.  There were even more people when we came back down.

My honey bought me lots of goodies...did I already tell you he's the best?  By the way, ALL of the employees are super sweet and helpful.  The ladies that checked us out were very friendly and were glad to answer our questions.

Here's the bakery.  The sweet ladies at the checkout downstairs told us we could get a bite to eat upstairs in the bakery, so off we went to check it out.

Here's the area where you can get a baked goodie.  EVERYTHING looked so yummy!

I don't know who does their chalk art, but its throughout the Merc and its really awesome!  This is in the candy area of the bakery.  So cute!

Our baked goodies. We got a giant chocolate chip with sea  salt cookie, a cream cheese pastry and a lemon marmalade muffin.

We also got a sandwich lunch special to share along with a lemonade and a sweet tea all to go!  Now we were off to the Lodge out on the Drummond Farm.  When you visit the Merc, if it happens to be a day that you can visit the Lodge, they will give you a piece of paper with the driving directions on it.  The Lodge is only open on certain days when Ree is not filming the cooking show out there.

On that piece of paper it tells you will see wild horses, and you do!  This is only a few that we saw.  There were literally hundreds of them just grazing out in the pasture.  Such a beautiful sight to see.  There were cows too of course.

We're here! This is the Lodge.  The farm is huge and oh so gorgeous.  We enjoyed the short drive out there from the Merc.  The directions were perfect!

This is down below the parking area of the Lodge.  It was a gorgeous day that day and I'm pretty sure I could have just stood here for ever taking it all in. Gorgeous!

My honey and I shared our lunch and then went in to see what we could see.  We had a HUGE turkey bacon sammie with pasta salad and grapes. YUM!

Guess who "greeted" us at the door? Walter!  He was deep asleep and couldn't even be bothered with all the people sitting down beside him to get a picture! lol!  He was inside in the a/c enjoying himself.

This is the big pantry right behind the kitchen area where Ree films.  Full to the brim with everything you might need.

Her Pioneer Woman Collection was sprinkled everywhere throughout the Lodge.  I'm pretty sure Ree has the ultimate collection.  None of us fans has ANYTHING on her!

This huge fireplace was to the left of the kitchen area.  I loved all of their boots on the mantel as decor.  Great idea!  So cute!

Here's where all the magic happens, well most of it I guess.  Everyone there wanted a picture in the kitchen.

Including me!  My honey snapped a picture of me quickly so the next person could have a turn.  Wouldn't it be fun to cook a meal with Ree?

We wondered around the Lodge for a while just looking at all the big bedrooms and the pretty decor.  We then discovered all the way in the back of the Lodge another kitchen area with another giant storage room full of Pioneer Woman dishes and such. Everything you'd need to stage a meal beautifully.  We enjoyed the visit and then we were off on down the road to our next adventure.  We saw more wild horses on the way out.  They were in no way concerned with all the traffic going by them.  I guess they are already used to it now.  Also, see all the wind turbines in the background, those are another familiar site in our area of the world. Those things always amaze me!

If you ever get the chance and its something you'd like to do, go visit the Mercantile and the Lodge if you can.  I enjoyed the visit and I bet you would too!

HOW TO WIN: 
I'm giving away one set of (8) Vintage Stripe cloth napkins to one luck winner.
All you have to do is follow our blog and leave a comment here telling me what your favorite Pioneer Woman Collection piece is.  I will choose and announce a winner on September 17th.  

***Please make sure you are a NOT a no-reply blogger so I can get in touch with you if you win.***  Good luck! 

The WINNER is:

My winner is Monkey! YAY! Congratulations Monkey, please email me your mailing address so I can get your prize shipped out to you!

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It doesn't have to be done all at once.  It is a slow process in the works! C-ya next time!

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These lovely and FUN parties!
Between Naps on the Porch
The Dedicated House  - (I was featured)