Off this morning from the Sleep Inn, one of the best we have slept in and throw in some of the big chains, few surpassed this one. We headed to Oklahoma City with the help of OnStar, got right downtown to the OKC Art Museum for the Dale Chihuly exhibit, over 1,500 glass pieces and other art work. http://www.okcmoa.com/exhibitions/dalechihuly-theexhibition and we sat for an hour watching a movie of him and his work. This is one of the biggest exhibits due to the fact that his wife came from a small town up the line on I35. The administrator of the museum has known Dale for 20 years, this explains why so much. We ate at the museum – Museum Cafe, it sits right in the center of town and has many city and Federal buildings in the area. We had a good glass of cabernet, hamburgers with caramelized onions and mine with swiss cheese and mushrooms. The fries were presented neatly, in a cloth funnel in a metal frame, neat. I would recommend this place anytime.
We hoofed it over to the Myriad Botanical Gardens. It had a different layout, leading you around the exhibit with its many orchids and greenery. Don’t go out of the way for this one. We then hopped on a Trolley and took a 20 minute drive around downtown, not much to see.
We then went back to the car and drove to the Murrah Federal Building that had been destroyed in 1995. http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/ These are always depressing exibits for me, we walked the reflecting pools and looked at the empty seat markers. There were a goodly group of people attending. Some looked like high school seniors on a field trip, they acted pretty decent.
Off and out of town, down I35. we saw a sign for a falls ahead. We went off to investigate it. It is handled by the city? Not sure where the town was but it was Turner Falls, a small falls with a meandering creek that flows over the bridges you cross to get to the falls. I then did not listen to either Shirleen or OnStar and turned back toward the highway and when I got there it did not have a south ramp, turn around and listen to both my advisors. Yesterday it gave us a new message, “a complicated intersection ahead”.
We saw a sign that mentioned Gene Autry and will go back in the morning. So we stopped at the next town for the evening, two doors down was dinner, at The Two Frogs, a rib place with a big menu. Shirleen saw her shrimp scampi with green beans and a baked potato. I grabbed a glass of Bud, Small order of catfish with red beans and fresh cut fried potatoes. Good all the way around. Off for Denton, tomorrow. We are staying until Sunday morning at Robsons Ranch, a place to look at houses to retire to and the three nights $93 for all three nights not each. Actually not looking either, we know a lot of people who have stopped there. Not sure if they have web connect? jerr
We hoofed it over to the Myriad Botanical Gardens. It had a different layout, leading you around the exhibit with its many orchids and greenery. Don’t go out of the way for this one. We then hopped on a Trolley and took a 20 minute drive around downtown, not much to see.
We then went back to the car and drove to the Murrah Federal Building that had been destroyed in 1995. http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/ These are always depressing exibits for me, we walked the reflecting pools and looked at the empty seat markers. There were a goodly group of people attending. Some looked like high school seniors on a field trip, they acted pretty decent.
Off and out of town, down I35. we saw a sign for a falls ahead. We went off to investigate it. It is handled by the city? Not sure where the town was but it was Turner Falls, a small falls with a meandering creek that flows over the bridges you cross to get to the falls. I then did not listen to either Shirleen or OnStar and turned back toward the highway and when I got there it did not have a south ramp, turn around and listen to both my advisors. Yesterday it gave us a new message, “a complicated intersection ahead”.We saw a sign that mentioned Gene Autry and will go back in the morning. So we stopped at the next town for the evening, two doors down was dinner, at The Two Frogs, a rib place with a big menu. Shirleen saw her shrimp scampi with green beans and a baked potato. I grabbed a glass of Bud, Small order of catfish with red beans and fresh cut fried potatoes. Good all the way around. Off for Denton, tomorrow. We are staying until Sunday morning at Robsons Ranch, a place to look at houses to retire to and the three nights $93 for all three nights not each. Actually not looking either, we know a lot of people who have stopped there. Not sure if they have web connect? jerr
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Thanks so much for the photos!
Mary
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