Last weekend we went to Oklahoma City to sell a car part. L and I went along so that we could explore fun bigger-city things for the day. We went to the A.P. Murrah Building bombing memorial in OKC. Stuart and I went there not too long after it happened, and so it was interesting to go and see how it has changed and read the signs and have the experience. L, on the other hand, was just cold. Too cold to really care about the history or story behind it. She just wanted to be back in the truck with the heater on, and I just wanted to read the story of the "survivor tree". Needless to say, my photos of the memorial do not include a smiling child. It was stinkin' cold.
We then went to the Omniplex Science Museum, which was SO MUCH fun. We have gone to Exploration Place in Wichita fairly often, but this place in OKC was amazing. We spent three hours there and could easily have spent another 3, if we weren't so hungry by that time. We got to explore a giant tree house that focused on simple machines, solve a crime using forensic science, browse through optical illusion art, use a periscope, navigate through a house of mirrors, walk through several enormous body systems (think teeth bigger than my kid) and many other things. L wanted to buy a gift for one of her cousins, J#3, so we went to the gift shop, where she found an obsidian arrowhead for him, and a small overpriced bag of shiny rocks for herself.
It was a fun day - we left around 6 in the morning and got home around 6 at night, and spent 7 hours of that time in the truck. Before Stuart and I were married, this was the kind of weekend work/fun jaunt we sometimes ventured on during a weekend day - I was surprised at how well L handled it.
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