Extra Day at Oklahoma City

We decide that we need a day to catch up on bills, emails, schoolwork, etc so we decide to spend another day in Oklahoma City. This campground has great wifi, a hot tub and cable TV so it's a great place for just hanging out for a day.

By late afternoon we have all of our chores done and head to downtown Oklahoma City. We visit Centennial Park, with the sculptures commemorating the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1899,

and then hop on a trolley to ride around town and stop at the Oklahoma National Memorial Site, which remembers the 168 lives lost when the Federal building was bombed.

We get off the trolley near their very nice baseball park, Bricktown Stadium, home of the Texas Rangers AAA team.

For those who don't know, Jere is a long time Cincinnati Reds fan, starting in the 60s before the Big Red Machine. One of the best known players of the Big Red Machine is Johnny Bench and apparently Johnny Bench was born in Oklahoma City and grew up in Oklahoma, so they have Johnny Bench Plaza at the entrance of the stadium. Of course we take time to look at his plaza. The plaza includes one of the many decorated buffalo sculptures (this one is supposed to represent the many different pathways that buffalo once roamed) we saw scattered around downtown OKC.

Then we walk back to Bass Pro Shop (where we parked our truck) along the Olahoma City riverwalk.

We get back to the RV park in time for a quick swim in their indoor pool.