Day 6 - Tulsa Oklahoma

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Hi All,

The Blogs are going to get done, we are so tired, it is taking longer to do. We're trying to put them together on the road and then download them at night. So here is day 6...

We got up this morning in Tulsa Oklahoma and the clouds are super dark. We ate breakfast at a restaurant and by the time we came out there was a lightening storm. We stayed in front of the storm, we got lots of rain, tons of rain. We watched the lightening for quite some time. We heard thunder a couple of times.
We made it to Missouri about 10:14 am and stopped at the visitors center. Oklahoma and Missouri have been so green and forested, it is really neat. Our Room at the motel6 last night smelled so bad that it burned our lungs and I hardly slept at all. I had the lady that worked there come in and she said that it smelled of cleaner & dog urine. Great, we breathed that all night, and our lungs (Mom, Julia and I) still burn and it is after eleven am. The trees here are so green and the leaves are big and several different colors or shades of green. There was a whole herd of horses in someones front pasture that was all lush green. The house had big columns, someone has a lot of money! Beautiful.
We arrived in St. Louis and took tons of pictures of the Gateway Arch. Julia and Rylan were so excited, Julia spewed out the history of the Gateway Arch. This knowledge helps me to feel she really learned something this year! We took pictures of the Mississippi and we put our fingers in it. Take a look at the pictures and see that the Mississippi is flooding, due to the storms that have been happening on this side of the country. We went into the Gateway Arch visitors center, and they were closing and had sold out of tickets to go up into the arch. So we went and sat inside of one of the drums that you ride in up to the top, took pictures and decided that it was really claustrophobic. We then toured the visitors center museum and learned a bit of history. There were 2-D wall murals, so I took a picture of them and I want to make a panorama of it, it was really neat.
Back on the road, we stopped at The Worlds Largest Gift Store and they had Lucile Ball’s Limo, so of course we took a picture.
That evening we arrived in Indiana and stopped at the visitor center. There we learned that we had missed the Tornados, there were eight of them, and we had stayed in front of the storm somewhat. Mom really liked the wall at the visitor center, so here she is in front of it.
-Heidi

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Photos

Storm in Oklahoma
Tornado formed soon after this was taken.

Tulsa Oklahoma
Heidi caught the lightening bolt on camera.

Finger in Mississippi
Heidi had to put finger in Mississippi

Gateway Arch Vistor Center
Part of a huge mural in the center.

Great Law
Here are the kids getting an education.

Gateway Arch
Barrel is what you ride up the Arch in.

In a barrel
This is what you ride in up to the top.

Geocache Shoe
Uniqe, neat little shoe serves as a geocache.

Neat Bush
Taken by Heidi

Pam & Kitty
This was taken at the Largest Gift Shop.

Indiana
We got there in the dark.

Wall at the Indiana rest area.
Pam likes this wall.

Comments

[Barbara]

Education and Tornado's
Great pix and interesting monolog, keep them coming.

[Crystal]

The Whole Trip
Well, I finally got through all of your blogs and feel that you really had quite the trip. Looks like I'd be staying away from Motel 6 from now on. That Indiana rest area wall certainly was something. Looks like plates from all over the US. I'm sure that the trip was tiring and worth it all. You've hit all the weather you could have minus an actual tornado. You were lucky there. I'm glad you had fun. Where to next? I think the South needs to be checked out. Need to see where the Wright Bros. took that first flight. Glad you had fun. Love