Mon/Tues... Oct 26/27.... Oklahoma City... What a Great Surprise!

Leaving Joplin and rolling towards Oklahoma.... We called a friend of ours, Jim, who lives in Oklahoma City and told him we'd be in town for our reset. Trapper and Jim haven't seen each other in about a year and a half, so we thought dinner would be nice.

Jim was glad to hear that we would be in town and was happy to come meet us at the truck stop. When Jim arrived at the truck stop, he was driving a rental car.... yes, he had rented us a car to use that night and the next day while were in OKC! How nice was that?

And wait... it gets better... he also made us reservations at the Hampton Inn for the night! We could not believe it, what a wonderful surprise. Jim also drives a truck and said, "I know how it is to have to stay stuck in the truck... here's a car and room reservations... have fun while you are here." WOW!

After dinner, we found the hotel and I tried scoured the internet for things to do in OKC.

We decided to visit the National Cowboy Museum in OKC. This place is awesome. If you are ever in OKC you should stop and tour the museum. The cost is $10 per adult, but it's well worth it.

We saw the history of west from the days of the Indians up through some of the early settlements. There is a section of the museum called Prosperity Junction which is a small town built inside the museum depicting what the old west was like.

A few pictures from Prosperity Junction:

Trapper at the bank.

The Mercantile... fully stocked I might add....

Trapper in the saloon....

A stagecoach... boy... this wouldn't have been for me....

And me.... in Jail.... fits me, huh?

After our tour of the museum we wondered down to the downtown area of Oklahoma City called Bricktown.

Bricktown is an area on the canal where the revitalization people decided to actually tear up the street and dig all the way down to the bottom of the buildings and fill the canal up with water. This created a two story "street mall" full of stores and restaurants. Very interesting place and very pretty.

Our mini vacation came to an end around 4 p.m. as we had to make it back to the Petro to get back to real life... real trucking life.... laundry for me and sleep for Trapper. The wee hours of the morning will come early.

Jim... if you read this.... Thank you so much! We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!