Our original plan was to go to the lake on mother’s day. Luckily Donny called then on Saturday to see if Caddo Lake State Park was open and it turns out that during the quarantine you have to buy a ticket and they had sold out for the weekend. So we went ahead and got tickets for Monday instead.

I had wanted to come here since I found the cutest bed and breakfast in a book I had many years ago. It was near this lake and the pictures showed the old cypress trees covered in Spanish moss growing out of the water. Unfortunately, I lived in Austin at the time and it was a pretty long drive, so it was a no to that B&B. Now we are only 45 minutes away.

The canoe rental was closed, but next trip we definitely plan to rent one.

We planned to do a little fishing. There are two really good fishing piers.

Hannah caught the first fish.

Jack caught the next one and ended up catching the most. We threw them all back, but everyone had fun.

After a few hours of fishing, we decided to do a little geocaching. If you’ve never tried it, you should. All you have to do is download the app.It will tell you how far you are from a cache, give you the coordinates and then you have to find it. The cache can be all different things. Sometimes there are little gifts, but most of the time there is just a log where you sign your name and the date you found it.

The first one we went to look for, we couldn’t find. I don’t know if it was because since the quarantine the “faint trail” we were looking for had grown over, but we got an hour long hike out of trying. Even though we didn’t find it, the hike was fabulous.

At the top of a hill we came across this structure that was built in the 1930’s.

By the time we got back down to the trailhead, we were all pretty worn out. It was getting late so we decided to head home. I had seen that there was another geocache not far from the entrance to the park so we decided to give it another shot and guess what…..

We found it!!!!!!

The perfect ending to a really good day.