We celebrated a birthday on Sunday by meeting family for dinner. We didn't want anyone to have to travel three hours for a birthday meal, so we picked a location that was centrally located to all three travel parties. The winner? Seiling, Oklahoma...population 875, according to Wikipedia.

Now I don't know about you, but in my experience towns with only eight hundred and seventy-five people aren't the best travel destination. But a visit to the Seiling Chamber of Commerce website proved there were four restaurants in town...a good start for any get together. Our selections were Heath's Steakhouse, My Way Café, Subway, and Willy's Café.

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My family visited Lake Optima in March 2009. We didn't plan the trip; instead, we went to see relatives in the Texas Panhandle, and while there, we hit geocaching.com and a couple of letterboxing sites to see what we could do for fun up there.

There were a couple in Texas, but the biggest clump of geocaches was located north, in Lake Optima. I was intrigued, since I'd never heard of Lake Optima. My brother-in-law said that it was a failed lake, and had never reached capacity. Sounded interesting, so the next day we packed a lunch, four adults and seven children into two vehicles and headed up the highway.

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