Our plan for the weekend was to make our base at the lake house of our friends the Ashford’s (Jennifer and her mom Judy) and visit six more Oklahoma State Parks near Lake Tenkiller.
Jennifer had to get an MRI that morning on her leg (note the HIPAA violation) so we were going to go ahead of them and visit Greenleaf State Park and then meet them at the lake house in Black Gum, OK and then on to their boat at Pine Cove Marina at Lake Tenkiller.
We made it to Greenleaf State Park and were impressed. It is a large, nice park with a lot to offer. We wanted to see the cabins because they were built back during the Roosevelt administration through the WPA and by German POW’s. We drove through the park and looked at the cabins. Not much to look at. Just basic cabins. But it was interesting knowing their history.
Then we drove through more of the park and looked at the lake and the "Cabin Near The Lake." It all looked very nice.
Then we decided to hike along the trail. It is a huge trail that the sign near it says takes twelve hours if you hike the entire trail. Uh…yeah, that’s not gonna happen. But we did want to do a little hiking so we started along the trail and had a nice time. The weather wasn’t too hot because it was mostly shady. Once we turned around and headed back it was starting to heat up though. We finally made it back and got in the van and were about to leave the park.
And that’s when it happened.
Reagan yelled, “Aaaagghh! I’m covered in tiny spiders!”
He jumped out of the van and Tina started helping him get them off. I noticed I had them on me too. In fact, we all did. Apparently, we picked them up on the hike. They were really tiny. About the size of a pen dot. Hundreds of them.
We pulled over to a bathroom and had to change clothes and rinse off and realized they weren’t spiders…but ticks!
We left the park looking forward to getting to the lake house. Tina called our doctor to see if we were going to die. They thought we would live but told us what to do and what to watch for.
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