Day 16 - Oklahoma !!

Our hotel outside Kansas City had a free breakfast and pool - so we did not get an early start on the road to Oklahoma. Right outside our hotel was the once numerous Krispy Kreme donut shop. When I first started planning the trip there were 4 stores on the way to Niagara but all have now closed. All the stores in Massachusetts have also closed. Long live trans fats !!!

"I do not see any redeeming qualities to Kansas"

-Karen Olen

The trip down I-35 from Kansas City to Norman Oklahoma is pretty monotonous. I was very tempted to spend the afternoon at the Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas. How can you resist spending quality family time perusing "old school desks, class attendance records, teacher contracts, antique textbooks, and other artifacts " ?

We made a brief stop in Perry Oklahoma to visit with the former pastor of our church and his wife. He took a call at the First Presbyterian Church in Perry. Perry's main claim to fame is that Tim McVeigh was caught and held in Perry. It was nice catching up with them and seeing their church.

We arrived in Norman Oklahoma at Karen's brothers house in the early evening. Unfortunately we were awakened at 3am with Brett throwing up.... looks like Kelsey did pass her gift onto her younger brother.