McFadden Family Adventures
Travel Adventures with Tom & Vonda
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A few weeks ago we visited the Memorial in Oklahoma City. We were living in Tulsa at the time of the bombing and I remember it well. It was horrific and very moving to see how they have remembered those whose lives were lost. I recently saw a story that they are going to be…
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Rhema Lights are a sight to behold. We have gone most years we have been here. This year the weather cooperated and we were able to walk around and really experience everything. Rhema Lights started in 1982 at Rhema Bible College with about 60,000 lights. This year there are over 2 million. It’s certainly not…
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I’ve been remiss in posting our adventures while we’re in Oklahoma. There have been many and I’ll be catching up in the next few days. My son and his girlfriend came for Thanksgiving and we went to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum for the afternoon. It was an interesting day and we enjoyed looking…
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Monday we took a trip up to Winganon, Oklahoma. A friend had posted a photo with a caption about a cement mixer that had fallen off a truck. Here’s the information from their website. “The Winganon Space Capsule is a happy accident that has turned into one of the most memorable and fun photo ops…
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We spent the last week in Arkansas with family. Tom’s sister Julie and her husband David met us at Crater of Diamonds State Park. It’s a lovely park located at the diamond mine which is really just a field filled with mud this time of year. We watched videos of people sifting when the dirt…
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We are in Moyers, Oklahoma on the Kiamichi River, mostly by ourselves. We were greeted by chickens when we arrived and they mostly got out of the way. No, we didn’t kill chickens. I’ve seen my grandmother kill chickens and it’s not something I ever intend to do. There’s a petting zoo here and I…
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If you don’t know who Belle Starr was, she was an outlaw that was convicted of being a horse thief and was killed in 1889. Many of her exploits were in Indian Territory or what is now Oklahoma. There is a lovely campground on the shores of Lake Eufaula near the city of Eufaula called…
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St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Broken Arrow has a pumpkin patch every year. On the first Sunday of October pumpkins are delivered by a semi and set up on the front lawn by many volunteers. We’re usually not here in October so we’ve never experienced the pumpkin patch. On Wednesday this past week we…
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When I was a girl between the ages of 12-16 we camped at Lake Eufaula every summer. My parents set up camp for at least a month. They worked as nurses and went to work but my brother and I stayed at the camp with other family or friends. I can remember going home one…
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Tom and I took a trip to the Tulsa State Fair a week or so ago. We hadn’t been to the fair since before we got married. The last time I was there we bought an ornament with our wedding date (to be) and our names. I still have that ornament and I would include…
