Trip to Oklahoma City
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Aug 2nd, 2008 - Its been a long time since we left Dallas on a trip and my parents decided to go and visit Oklahoma City which is about 3 hours away from Dallas. We started off early and headed north to Oklahoma City. It was a nice long drive and we listened to my favorite songs from Jab We Met, Om Shanti Om, Welcome and Taare Zameen Par. I think my parents must have got bored but I can listen to those songs over and over again. On the way, we stopped at a town called Norman and had some lunch there at a Greek Cafe. |
We reached the hotel at around 2 in the afternoon. My father had booked us at the Skirvin Hilton which was a historic hotel in the downtown area. The hotel was very nice and we got a room on the 5th floor. It had a lot of things and my parents had to move every thing to higher levels. I spent a lot of time with the phones, paper, magazines and the television. Soon we will go to the Bricktown area.
Fun in Bricktown Oklahoma City
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Aug 2nd, 2008 - After we reached Oklahoma City and rested at the hotel we decided to go to the nearby Bricktown area. The Bricktown area in a reconstructed part of downtown Oklahoma City where they converted the old downtown into a place where they could attract tourists and locals to come and have some fun. We walked a couple of blocks to the Bricktown area and it was terribly hot (over 100 degrees) |
The Bricktown area has a water canal and we decided to take a ride on the water taxi. The taxi was full of people from other parts of the country like California, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma. There was a nice lady sitting next to me and I probably bored her with my jibber-jabber but she did not seem to mind. On the water taxi ride, we saw some nice restaurants, paintings, waterfalls, sculptures etc. The ride must have been about 30 minutes. We got off the taxi and took a walk around Bricktown before heading back to the hotel. It was just too hot to do anything.
By the end of the walk, I was red like a tomato.