Oklahoma City

From Amarillo we traveled to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  We had a whirlwind day seeing as much of the city as we could.

As we traveled across Oklahoma, we noticed it was much greener than Texas.

 Also, the cattle seemed more sociable.  They were usually standing in a group whereas the Texas cattle were usually spread out.  Here they're enjoying some shade.

 We also saw windmills.

Along the way we also crossed the Chisholm Trail, where cattle used to be lead from Texas to Kansas.

 It was Sunday and we joined a small group in RV park doing Bible study.  After that we went to the Museum of Cowboy Life and Western Heritage.  This is a huge facility showing art related to cowboys and the southwest and also displays of cowboy life and work.  There was also sculpture (a large one of Ronald Regan) and a section of Hollywood westerns.

 After the Cowboy Museum we went to the Oklahoma City Memorial, commemorating the attack on a federal building in April, 1995.  This was a very moving memorial.  There is a large reflecting pool where the street used to be and there are 168 chairs along the side, representing the adults and children who were killed.

We also drove over to the state capitol building.  We believe that this is the only capitol building that has working oil rigs on the property!

From there we visited the famous Oklahoma City Stockyards where there are cattle auctions twice a week.  We were there on Sunday so we missed it!

We still had some gas in the Jeep so we decided to drive along historic Route 66, which runs just north of the city.

Our final destination was Pops - a gas station/diner with a 50 foot bottle of soda out front and 500 flavors of soda on the menu.  Matthew had Root Beer with blackberry flavoring.  Yum.

 There were cool neon lights that would change color.

 As the sun sets on the soda bottle, we headed home to the RV after a very full day!