Vicki's 2014 Visit - Part 2

The best laid plans of Mice and Men . . .  Get the drift?  Vicki requested that we visit the American Indian Museum in Oklahoma City and since I'd seen several ads on TV about it, I secured the address, entered it into my Garmin and we headed off nice and early on Monday, March 24.  The trip was uneventful, the weather was nice and we got to Oklahoma City in good time.  However, when we got to 900 N. Broadway, there was no museum - it was a very upscale bicycle shop.  The young men inside said "the museum isn't open yet" and when I looked at my watch, they said "it's still under construction."  The office, however, was upstairs and we went up there and chatted with two lovely ladies who said the museum would open in 2019!!!  Hopefully, I'll be alive in 2019 and we'll try again.

So, we went to the Oklahoma City National Memorial which was stunning, breathtaking, sad and beautiful.  So many emotions, tears filling my eyes when seeing the tiny chairs.  These photographs don't begin to do it justice.  Absolutely amazing!!!

The last two above are at St. Joseph's Church just across the street.

After a quick lunch at Blu's BBQ, we headed to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.  It was definitely not what we expected have heard so many superlatives about it. In my humble opinion, the museums in Fort Worth are much better, if smaller. We were in and out in about 90 minutes but I did catch a few photos of some things:

So, having our day cut short due to one museum not being open for five years and the other being less than what we'd heard [in our opinions], we decided not to stay in Oklahoma City and instead headed east to Tulsa.  After a little dinner next door at Ruby Tuesday, we're now in our PJs at the Best Western.  Our plan for Tuesday is heading further east, going through Broken Arrow and Muskogee and heading to Little Rock or thereabouts.  Do tune in, if you've a liking.