Day 7 ~ Wide Open Spaces Tour 2012 ~ Oklahoma City

70 degrees and sunny ~ my kinda weather! ~ Happy 70th Birthday Mom!

What a beautiful day, a bit windy but I'm not complaining!  Some of the places we went today we welcomed the wind  :)

These Stockyards are allegedly the worlds largest

This is where all the local beef is bought and sold, (on the hoof)

This is where they drop off the cattle

Her face is saying "help me"

And this is were they pick-em up.

Waiting for their turn at auction

They hold the auctions Monday - Wednesday

There were a lot of pens...

Some were all brown....

This is a BIG group

I don't think they could put another cow in these pens on the left, the other cows were on they way to auction corrals with two cowboys on foot keeping them moving

Some were mixed...

#103 was pretty cute but we didn't have room in the motorhome to bid on her.

Next up...

See if you can understand what this auctioneer is saying?  The average weight; the total cattle and price per pound is on the screens.  Roughly each cow cost $1000 !!  wow

And this is where it all happens, buying & selling and you cant understand a thing the auctioneer says.

This was a big group !  He was trying to confirm the count of 24 cows; crazyness

Thank goodness we were not in RV to visit Bricktown; would've lost something off our roof 

River walk with water taxi, didn't go on them

 We headed to the Memorial and spent most of the afternoon there walking around the grounds and museum.

Weeping Jesus statue which was across the street with its back to the memorial

They reinstalled the fence that was originally around the site with memorabilia that was left

9:01 engraved on the wall commemorated the last moment of life as we knew it

168 chairs (one for each victim)  facing the reflecting pond

Oklahoma City National Memorial

The only tree that survived the bomb, a 100 year old american elm.

The reflecting pool

Some graffiti @ the site

The building across from Murrah building lost its facade and is now serving as the memorial museum

9:03 engraved in the wall commemorated the moment we were changed forever 

The Origami Cranes that covered the ceiling of the memorial were sent in from school children around the country.

Oklahoma City skyline beyond the Memorial  site.

The town was covered with Bison statues

Capital Building

We had to stop at Freddy's for some fudge crunch concrete

Concrete ?!?!  yum?