Oklahoma City

After a long, hot trip we arrived in Oklahoma City. We spent a couple of days as the guest of our friends Rex and Ginger. They were kind enough to let us park in their yard and plug into their electricity and water.

The first day Rex took us to see the Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma City Memorial. Both of these are really something to see. You really need more than one day to see everything in the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

The OK City Memorial is a tribute to the bombing of the Federal Building and it will give you goose bumps when you see it. There was a large chain link fence around the area and it was full of stuffed animals of all types and sizes. I ask one of the guards what would happen if someone tried to take one of them. He said "before or after we shoot them"? He said they personally knew every family that had items on the fence and they notified them before changing any of the items.

The next day Ginger took us on a tour of Shawnee OK and showed us some of the Indian settlements and museums. We also saw an old Sante Fe Railroad Depot that was last used in the late 1800's.

Also a highlight of our visit was to be able to wish Rex a happy birthday. He would not say how old he was but Ginger said he was "four days older than dirt".

After a very enjoyable visit we said goodbye to our friends Rex and Ginger and headed back home.