USA Day 15 - the best museums ever

Total States Visited: 8
Where Are We Sleeping Tonight: Econo Lodge, Dallas, Texas

I awoke this morning watching 747's taking off over our heads. At least it is finally cool - something I thought it would never be again!

We went and visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum - the site of the infamous Oklahoma City bombing. All of the chairs next to the reflecting pool represent the people who were killed in the attack - it was very moving. The museum was amazing and while I like how the museum was arranged chronologically, there was so much information to try and absorb - I feel like we need a whole day to spend here. The way that they have displayed relics from the bombing is great - it's a shame they couldn't have done something like this for the World Trade Centre attack.

Next we walked across the road to the Post Office to buy some stamps to post home some postcards. We spent half an hour in the queue waiting for the single staff member to move with a purpose... I had time to walk a couple of blocks to the car, and drive it to the Post Office, and the queue had hardly moved!

Back on the road, we headed to "Bricktown", an evening hot spot in the converted freight area of Oklahoma City. While we were there at lunch time, I can see how the place would be super busy at night. We had lunch at the Jazmo'z Burbon Street Cafe and boy was it a wonderful experience. Not only did we eat new food (alligator, catfish and jambalaya) which was super tasty, but the blues/jazz music and the whole atmosphere made lunch a wonderful dinning experience. Sadly, we didn't get time to pop into the American Banjo Museum...

 
 

Heading onward toward Dallas, it was time for Clare to drive (once again through some major roadworks) while I took a nap.

 

At some point, Clare woke me up to ask if I wanted to visit the Toy & Action Figure Museum - Hello? Of course! While it was a little pricey for what was there, there was a huge range of cool toys - it was a lot of fun :)

 
 
 

After checking in to our Dallas motel, we headed to the cinema to watch Transformers 3. It was OK but too much poorly timed humour, slapstick, and in places sequences were too long (the end battle where the troops appeared out of nowhere) and too short in other places (Chicago fell in the blink of an eye). At least it is better than Transformers 2.