Lake Texoma: First Official Vacation

My husband and I have been married 7 years and just this past week, took our first official vacation. We've gone to bowling tournaments, but those don't really count as vacation and we went to Horseshoe Bend for an awards ceremony...that doesn't count either. This past week, we went to Lake Texoma for a four-day, no-frills vacation. It's the first time since 2009 that we've actually been able to take a trip during his vacation and for good reason, money is tight.

We had a really good time with our youngest daughter, her significant other, and their three children. Robert is a good guy and he has been as responsible for us being able to go as anyone. He's worked on our New-Old RV since we made the purchase. The RV is a 1980 Winnebago Brave, which has been the source for a blog that I've been writing on my tiny house site. We named her Tess and she is the second used camper we purchased. The first is a 1986 Citation that was originally bought to make over into a tiny house. When we got the RV, we changed things up a bit. The Citation will become a mobile print shop...or a tiny print shop.

After 4 solid weeks of working on the RV and giving her a much needed makeover, we decided to take a trip to the lake. Lake Texoma has several different camping areas from which to choose, and we chose West Burns Run. The largest RV the area will accommodate is 60-feet in length. Ours was a shoe-in at just 26-feet. Until Saturday, Tess was the oldest "self-propelled" RV in that area. On Saturday, however, the flower power mobile arrived...it was a tad older, maybe ten years or so.

Here are the photos from that trip. Hope you enjoy. The people in them are my family and I enjoyed their company immensely.

A view to the north of our campsite

Yea, she has to have a new spare tire cover...that's on the agenda

She also needs one window and that's a portion of ongoing discussions

Old as she is, her canopy is still in good shape

The Hubby doing something

Hubby just enjoying the cool of the wind

She gets really good reception with the antennae. In fact better than our home antennae

One of several sailboats that are moored on the lake.

At one point, we saw five or six sailboats that appeared to be sailing in line

I know this is west, because I honestly thought--due to the haze--that it was the moon. Joke was on me.

We did see the moon later that evening and it was almost as large as the sun appears to be

My daughter Wendy and bless her heart, she never tans. She just gets sunburned

My granddaughter Alyssa making funny faces. She's 7 going on 8

My granddaughter Marissa who is 5 going 6 and tans like nobody's business

Our son-in-law Robert and the RV mechanic mastermind.

Got a picture of him anyway. He hates having his picture taken.

The girls showing off daddy's striper catch. He was the only one to catch a fish.

Wendy not too happy to have her photo taken and Alyssa scoping out a big bug.

Marissa lake gazing in the background, and my awesome well-seasoned coffee cup.

Alyssa giving me the poo-poo face and Wendy had something on her foot?

Alyssa demonstrating how not to use a knee board. LOL A lot she cares, right?

Well, she got closer to what the board was used for, but still not quite right.

In the meantime, Marissa was deciding what uses a cooler could have

Actually, she was watching her mommy and papa leave to go to the store.

The sunsets were beautiful...and that's no joke.

If you go to the lake, take your own grill. Theirs are not so good.

The nights were incredible and so were some of the photos I got, some others not so much

You could see more toward the lake than toward the campground.

Wendy was really tired...bless her heart. She works too much.

The torches were a good purchase.

Jeffrey got some sun, but he didn't want to be outside as much as his sisters.