Our Weekend

Well I had told you about the Tribute Quartet coming to Alva on Friday night they were wonderful. They were all so friendly. And the bass singer when he talks you know he is a bass singer. ha ha ha..
Here are a few pictures of them on Friday night you can hear them on my Myspace Page.





Then we got up early Saturday morning and drove into Oklahoma City for the weekend. Our first stop was to the Ford Center to see the Walking with Dinosaurs Show it was awesome. Aaron and Michael both loved it and wants to go again. (smile) Here are some pictures of that.










Then we went off to the Oklahoma Memorial were the bombing took place in April of 1995. The Memorial is the largest of its kind in the USA, and receives above 500,000 visitors every year. The Outdoor Memorial has The Gates of Time, the Reflecting Pool, the Field of Empty Chairs, the Survivors’ Wall, The Survivor Tree, The Memorial Fence, Rescuers’ Orchard, Children’s Area, and the Jesus Wept sculpture. We got to go into where the Museum is but the actual Museum was closed due to water damage last week. So we will have to go back and see that later. But we got to go into the Store and buy some things and take a lot of pictures outside. It was very touching. In the children's section where the hand prints are you can write on a board (like a chalk board, Aaron did and I took a picture of that. He was quite touched about all the lives that were lost that day. He was only 2 when it happened.
The most touching thing of the Memorial is the Field of Empty Chairs that consists of 168 empty chairs handcrafted from glass, bronze and stone, representing each of the victims who lost their lives. The names of the victims are etched in the glass base of each chair. Arranged in nine rows, they symbolize the nine floors of the building with each individual’s chair on the row representing the floor they were on during the blast.The Survivor Tree is an American elm it was almost destroyed by the blast. But it bloomed and survived it was beautiful.
Here are some of the pictures I took while we were there on Saturday.

















We just drove around the City looking at some things after that and for dinner we went to Toby Keiths Bar and Grill. Aaron got a steak and it melted in your mouth. He loved it. Mike had a fried bologna sandwich, I think just because he has never seen that on the menu before. I had a baked potato and cup and of chili. All YUMMY.. a very nice place we will for sure go back to next time in the City.



We were tired from the long day so went off to the Hotel for the night to relax and sleep. Then we got up the next morning and went to one of our ABA Churches in Oklahoma City. Bro. Marc Ray is the Pastor we really enjoyed it and the people were ALL so friendly everyone in the church I think came up to meet us. Bro. Marc is friends with our Pastor Bro. Wiggins and spoke very highly of him.


After church we went to Cracker Barrel for lunch. Then to Sams Club before heading back to Alva. We did some sightseeing on the way back took a picture of the water tower in Yukon where Garth Brooks is from it is off Garth Brooks Blvd.

Then we saw this place off the road called Montana Mike's. Michael wanted a picture of it. Since he is from Montana. I told home if he owned a steakhouse wonder if we could eat for free in there. Ha!

We also stopped at this store called Cherokee really a nice place for sure want to go back in there again. I bought Mike some Eagle Windchimes in there. Beautiful.

So all in all we had a wonderful weekend was very chilly. It was 8 degrees when we left on Saturday Morning and at one point they said the wind chill factor was 0. So pretty chilly for this Southern California girl. But we had a wonderful weekend and look forward to going back to Oklahoma City really soon.

Bye for now... Hugs Judy