Winter Trek 1

We left Davenport the Thursday before Christmas at about 3 pm. (As soon as Jeremy cleared for clinic!!)

We drove all the way to Tulsa, Oklahoma that night, and stopped on the way at the Independence visitor's center. It had a really cool area downstairs for the kids to play. A big cabin, a little cabin, checkers, and this cool wagon:

We stayed the night in Tulsa (I think, I was pretty out of it at that point). The next morning, we drove to Dr. Robert Brooks' office in downtown Tulsa. He is a really successful/effective NUCCA doctor that Jeremy has been helping organize seminars for at Palmer. We spent the whole morning at his office while he took x-rays (multiple times) and adjusted me, figuring out why I haven't responded that well to treatment up until now. We really liked his office!

The kids liked it too - there was a fun place for them to place, and even a fully-stocked kitchen. Here they are having a little picnic in the middle of the hall.

Dr. Brooks' staff was awesome at helping watch our kids so Jeremy could observe everything. Actually, I think by the end of our visit, the kids were going up to random patients and asking for books to be read...

That afternoon/evening we drove to Amarillo, TX by way of the Oklahoma City temple:

We stayed the night in Amarillo (in a rather nice, cheap hotel - thank you, Priceline!) and then headed for home (Arizona) the next morning. We were all a little sleep-deprived and slept in a little, which kept us from getting on the road until about 9 am.

We stopped in Albuquerque, NM to visit some good friends (Hi Heather & Jared!) that we hadn't seen in over a year, and a few hours later headed on to Pima where we surprised my parents that night at about 9:30 (Saturday). They still thought we weren't coming until Tuesday night as we had originally planned. It was a VERY long trip, but the kids did pretty well, and I did my best to not complain more than they did...

Christmas celebrations and fun coming sometime soon! (ie in the next week sometime...)