Oklahoma City Day Trip

Friday we decided to take a day trip to OKC

to visit the OKC Memorial of the 1995 bombing.

We left about noon and got to OKC around 2 pm

Just as we turned off the interstate the vans transmission decided to quit working!!!

I had a van full of six kids

it was raining

we all had to pee super bad

and the van just wouldn't go!!! Luckily I have a wonderful husband who from his office in Tulsa

call a transmission shop

and they came and towed the fan and the family

to their shop

and proceeded to help us find a car to rent so we could finish out our day and make it back to Tulsa.

This is how we all felt...

Chase and Sam passing the time.

It took us 3 hours to finally be on our way.

There were some smiles though.

We finally got to the Memorial.

This is what one worker wrote of the wall of the building adjacent to the building that was bombed.

Chase with smiles now...

This is the entrance gate with the time just before the bombing.

An actual clock that was in the federal building

showing the exact time of the bombing

Picture of the building's destruction.

Random shot of Sam and Davis

and me.

Group picture:

Lacey, Abby, Davis, Lexi, Sam, Nuna, Chase

Pictures are out of order...and I can't seem to reorder them

but anyway,

Front entrance into Memorial

(Sam, Davis and Sam in foreground)

Exit gate.

Another family picture

rows of chairs

each chair signifies a victim who was killed in the bomb

there are nine rows

with the number of people killed in each row

correlating with the number of victims on each floor.
Big chairs represent adults

Small chairs represent a child

Each chair has a name of a victim.

It was a somber visit with tears shed

but also an enlightening one

where you saw a community

coming to the aide of each other.

Well worth the time and effort spent.

Afterwards we visited Bricktown

We saw this Toby Keith's restaurant

but decided it was too pricey

and opted for a pizzaria

that was not great

but filled our empty stomachs none the less.We then found a Braum's and topped the day off with

a ice cream treat.

We made it home around 10 pm

and it felt good to be home.