A Trip to the "Wilderness"

     I met my friend Sarah this past semester in Microbiology and we hit it off from the first day of class. After several dates to Taco Bueno (which we both love!), DQ and Denny's, we discovered that we are practically the same person (Haha!!). Not quite, but we share the same values and opinions from our relationships with God and career paths down to the beanie hats we love! :-) Anyway, on one of our outings we discovered we both love being outside so we planned a 2 day vacation for when the semester ended. We decided Broken Bow Oklahoma was the perfect place for us to experience the wilderness, so we booked a hotel and 2 weeks later found us driving up to Beaver's Bend State Park.

It was really foggy all of Wednesday.

(This picture was taken Thursday.)

We're here!!!

The scenery was so beautiful! 

We did most of our hiking on Wednesday which ended up working out really well because it was quite a bit cooler on Thursday.

It was a long way down...

So, I jumped down onto a rock not realizing how very slippery it was and ended up flat on my face. I think my shoulders took the hit because they were the only part of me which was sore, but we couldn't stop laughing about it!! :-)

We couldn't find the trail we really wanted to hike on so we were relieved to come on this sign.

It was beautiful even with the fog.

The spillway

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We hiked down a VERY steep hill to find this gorgeous waterfall.

Looking down at the river

Selfie time!! :-)

We started out on, what we thought, was a 3 mile hike over semi difficult terrain, but it turned out to be a 7 mile hike over very steep terrain. We ended up hiking 13+ miles that day. We were exhausted by the end and were so glad to head for the hotel to shower and get cleaned up. We then headed to a little restaurant called Steven's Gap.

Waiting for our dinner to come...

It was the most delicious catfish ever, especially as we were SO hungry!! After we finished, we headed back to the hotel where we slept for the next 12 hours!! :D

The next morning we went to a little coffee shop called Adam and Eve's. It was the cutest and coziest coffee shop I have even been to! 

After our morning cup of coffee, we drove back by the dam and spillway so we could see them in the sunshine. The view was stunningly beautiful!

There was a gift shop connected to the coffee shop and we found these nice water bottles and super cute beanies.

It was even more beautiful in the sunshine than in the fog!! I was amazed!

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." Psalm 19:10

We found The Blue Rooster and decided to try it out. The food was delish and the inside was really rustic.

This little guy (about 6 years old) was the son of the boss and was helping out with serving. He took excellent care of us and kept coming over to ask if we needed drink refills.

We had an absolutely wonderful time and are looking forward to the next time! This verse is so true of our friendship.

"A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. ~Proverbs 27:9

God is faithful!
Lizzy