Oklahoma City

Day 7 - A day in Oklahoma City with a bus tour around town.

We were picked up by a bus and had a tour guide on board. Think Morgan was expecting more Americans on the tour as she had prizes to give away for trivial question which she had prepared. Her planning was thrown out the window as trivia questions related to America, and after the first two questions drew blank faces, she asked where we were from and had to change her subject matter.

Our first stop was the National Memorial Museum in remembrance of the Oklahoma bombing of the Murrah Federal building on 19th April, 1995 killing 168 people. Huge museum and wonderfully presented taking you through a journey moments prior to the tragedy, the bombing, rescue and recovery. Thoroughly recommend to visit this Museum and Memorial.

This memorial is on the actual street where the Murrah Federal building stood and in the garden to the left are wooden chairs representing each of the victims .

Wooden chairs placed where the victims were situated inside the building when it was bombed - small chairs represented the children in the Day Care Centre

This fence of remembrance next to the memorial

The next stop was the National Cowboy Museum which is absolutely HUGE with nearly 40 separate exhibits detailing history including statues and memorial grave sites of famous horses, Native American Gallery, life size model of a western town Prosperity Junction and a Gallery dedicated to actors and actresses who have appeared in western movies throughout the years, huge pavilion dedicated to Rodeos, to name a few. We thoroughly enjoyed this Museum and spent 2 hours wandering around (not bad for people who are not really into Cowboy stuff!) - could spend a day there and still not see everything.

The Cowboy Museum has this large sculpture by James Fraser in the entrance.

One of the many cowboy sculptures

The gardens are well maintained and has many sculptures to remember iconic horses

The museum had various galleries , this one is the Cavalry, with this horse and rider in the centre.

The Native American section had this magnificent head piece in a glass display.

Hels shaking hands with Ronald Reagan

Inside was a model western town called Prosperity Junction

Wouldn't be a cowboy museum without a statue of John Wayne. 

Our lunch stop was also notable, the Toby Keiths Brick Town (Toby Keith being a renowned country singer), and showcased southern style food. I had fried catfish followed by fried icecream, whilst Helen had chicken and ribs which she described as delicious!

Our table at Toby Keiths