Tulsa

We visited the Oklahoma Aquarium

Steve and Carol took us out for Chicago style pizza

This is a Frank Lloyd Wright house that was designed for the newspaper owner in the 1920s

This was our hotel The DoubleTree at Warren Place

This was a really cool Art Deco church on Boston street in downtown Tulsa

The Wienermobile was in downtown Tulsa while we were there.

Greerson enjoying the go-carts at Camp Victory (a church camp run by Steve's church)

Rachel was like Speed Racer!

The lake was a dry field, they really need rain.

Everybody had fun on the bumper cars

Greerson and Rachel prepare for the zip line.

Greerson on the zip line. Rachel decided not to go at the last minute

We had a nice visit to Tulsa in early August. Christa had to go on business so Greerson and Daryl tagged along and visited with Steve and Carol and Rachel. The first day we went to the Georgia Aquarium then back to the Hotel to swim. The second day Greerson and Daryl went to a traveling exhibit from Mount Vernon looking at the real George Washington. They had taken George's life mask when he was in his fifties. A life mask is a plaster cast of the face (this was done frequently after someone died, but George Washington had it done when he was alive) From this plaster cast they were able to use a computer to analyze it and computer generate what he would have looked like in his late teens and then again in his thirties. From these designs they cast his image in wax and presented him in as a surveyor in his teens and on his horse in his thirties. Then again at his inauguration. In addition to the figures they had several artifacts from Mount Vernon including the original Stuart painting of George Washington that is used so much. The museum was the Gilcrease Museum and houses mostly western art. We saw several original Remington sculptures. Greerson had fun with these, because Grandpa Woody has several of them at the ranch (in a much smaller scale).After the museum we stopped by Williams Sonoma and picked up a few things for th kitchen. We all went to Johnny Carinos for dinner and had a nice visit. Wednesday we met Steve at his office at Victory Christian Center and he showed us his job sites. The church is doing several building projects this summer. We went to the Victory Bible Institute, The Tulsa Dream Center and Camp Victory. They are all run by Steve's church, Victory Christian Center. While we were at Camp Victory which is about 30 miles away Christa called and said she had managed to complete her work and we could go home that afternoon. So we headed back to the hotel and packed up and headed back to Texas.