Thorn Crown Chapel was a bust, apparently someone had scheduled a wedding the same day we were passing through. We snapped a few pictures from the outside but a woman (either the brides mother, the wedding planner, or the head person of the chapel) ordered us off of the property. We tried to to tell her we had driven all the way from North Carolina but she said she didn't care and it wasn't her problem. It didn't look that good anyway. It took me a few hours to get over this occurrence but what can you do?
We stopped at Crystal Bridges Museum (which was also closed but we knew that). The place was beautiful, we got to walk the grounds and I had a conversation with one of the workers testing the ponds. The cedar set into the concrete had already faded to grey within the first year it had been put up (the contrast between the wood shaded from the sun and the exposed wood was stark to say the least). Too bad we couldn't get inside, the glulam beams looked amazing from what we could see on the outside. There were also two smaller pavilions on the grounds that looked like they could have been student design build projects.
Somehow we ended up in Tulsa on the way to Oklahoma City and got to see the BOK Center which is a sports/concert arena. We ate at Braums which was a burger/shake joint for dinner there. We arrived at Oklahoma City around midnight and walked around the memorial to the bombing back in 1995. I'm glad we were there during the night, it was an amazing experience.
After that we drove (I should say Kelly, she drove most of today, mvp award) to Amarillo, Texas which took about 4-5 hours and got to our hotel around 4am. We have to hit the road at 8am to see Cadillac Ranch. We stopped at a Hobby Lobby randomly somewhere at some point today when we were getting gas and I picked up some orange and blue (they said I could pick the colors, haha).
Everyone is asleep right now.
We stopped at Crystal Bridges Museum (which was also closed but we knew that). The place was beautiful, we got to walk the grounds and I had a conversation with one of the workers testing the ponds. The cedar set into the concrete had already faded to grey within the first year it had been put up (the contrast between the wood shaded from the sun and the exposed wood was stark to say the least). Too bad we couldn't get inside, the glulam beams looked amazing from what we could see on the outside. There were also two smaller pavilions on the grounds that looked like they could have been student design build projects.
Somehow we ended up in Tulsa on the way to Oklahoma City and got to see the BOK Center which is a sports/concert arena. We ate at Braums which was a burger/shake joint for dinner there. We arrived at Oklahoma City around midnight and walked around the memorial to the bombing back in 1995. I'm glad we were there during the night, it was an amazing experience.
After that we drove (I should say Kelly, she drove most of today, mvp award) to Amarillo, Texas which took about 4-5 hours and got to our hotel around 4am. We have to hit the road at 8am to see Cadillac Ranch. We stopped at a Hobby Lobby randomly somewhere at some point today when we were getting gas and I picked up some orange and blue (they said I could pick the colors, haha).
Everyone is asleep right now.
