Top Ten

1)Chickasaw National Park(Spring, swimming, drinking, sitting in falls)
2)Wichita Mountains National Refuge(Bison, prairie dogs, view from Mt. Scott)
3)Washita Battlefield
4)Meers
5)Presentation to the Sixth Graders
6)Talking with Superintendent Bruce
7)OU
8)OKC Memorial
9)Meeting Ms. Lauren and Mr. Chris
10)Hotel work out room

The last day

Today was another different day. The first place we went to, after Starbucks, was the Toy and Action Figure Museum. There were at least 1 thousand action figures as well as comics and movies. It was a cool and different museum. The next place was lunch at Meers. It is an old run down place that used to be a place where miners would go to eat. They served their world famous long horned cattle burgers that they raised right there. It was great and the food was AMAZING. It is considered a national historic place by the national government. Then we went to the Wichita Mountains. There we saw prairie dogs, log horned cattle and bison. They all were very close and everything felt like there really could be thousands of bison running round. Then we went on top of Mt. Scott. The view was amazing and you could se 360 degrees around. Cj and I hopped around the rocks and if was very fun. This was a great way to end our wonderful trip to Oklahoma. See you in DC.

The Trip to "The City"

Today was a different day, we changed from battlefields and creeks to visiting Oklahoma University (OU). The campus was amazing and the weather was just perfect. It was in the mid to upper 80's and there was a constant breeze. Mr. Eugene, who works at the Department of Geography ta OU gave us a pass to use the teacher parking and gave us a shirt and hat. He greeted us at the car and made us feel welcome at this big university. The tour that we had was excellent. It felt a little weird looking at colleges when I still don't know where I am going to high school. Our guide, John Paul, is a senior and knew a lot about the history and the facts about OU. All of the students that we saw were very nice and were funny. They were having their student elections so everyone was campaigning. We felt like part of the community.

Then for lunch we went a place called Which Wich. It is like potbelly but better. It was very windy so we had to constantly hold down our things but the sandwiches was amazing.

The rest of our day was different. We went to the Oklahoma City memorial about the bombing on April 19, 1995 at 9:02 am. It was very sad and still hopeful at the same time. The memorial is where the building used to be and then there is a museum next to it. Everything was somber and we were not alive when it happened so I finally felt like I knew about it. We went down and walked on a man made canal and saw a monument thing that showed bigger than life statues of people racing out to stake their claim of land. It was cool to see. We were planning to go to dinner at a Mexican restaurant on the "water front" but it was crowded due to a Taylor Swift concert close by.

Today was fun and we learned a lot about some terrible things that our country went through.

The Silent Field

Today we went to Washita National Battlefield. Some people are trying to get the name changed from battlefield to massacre site. There was a clash between the Cheyennes and the Americans in the dead of winter. It was at dawn and the Americans, led by Custer, murdered many Cheyenne men, women and children. The Native Americans were trapped in this Plains land and were being murdered. Some got away while others froze to death. The most cruel thing that I think that Custer did was round up and murder all of the ponies and horses. The Cheyenne people get their pony when they can walk. There horses are like their family members and they know each other very well.

It was very cool to be led on a tour by a Cheyenne woman whose relatives were at this camp. The people at the park were very nice. They did a lot of special things for us and we learned a lot. They helped us make spiritual shields and taught us about the proper manners of a tipi. At this place we learned so much about Washita and the slaughter of the Cheyenne people.

Our day today was full of hopping in and out of the car. We also did some very cool things today, starting with talking with the Superintendent of Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Washita and the Oklahoma City Memorial. This interview went on for about an hour and we asked him about 15 questions. He was on vacation in Vail, Colorado skiing with his family. We all gave him a thumbs up for being a skier.

After that great experience we went down the rode to the Sulfur school building. At the school we saw a presentation about the national parks here in OK and in return we showed them a few parks from DC. The kids were really nice so we went out to recess with them. It was cool to see how the kids there thought of DC.

For the next couple hours we visited and walked around the Chickasaw park. It is a wonderful place with water everywhere. The spring water tastes and smells like rotten eggs because of the Sulphur in the water.

We saw all of these pavilions, springs, trails and falls built by the CCC.


I could have stayed there fro hours with the water crashing all around you. We saw Little Niagara, the biggest falls built by the CCC, and the Lincoln bridge. There we met the nicest dog ever. She is three months old and is very small. We took some pictures with him and sat for like five minutes.

We got in and out of our car a lot and got very wet. At the end of the day , we went to a fried pie place and went to dinner at Red Robin. Today was full of activities and we got a lot of things done.

First impression

When we arrived, everything was very quiet. There were not a lot of people in the airport and there was no line for the rental car. It was about a 30 minute drive from the airport to our hotel. At the hotel we dropped of our bags and went to Target. There we purchased breakfast and lunches for most all 5 days as well as some snacks. Coming back to the hotel we put the food in a refrigerator and went out for dinner. We went to a Chinese restaurant called Pei Wei next to the Target.We had dinner with two park rangers, Chris and Lauren. They took us back to the hotel after dinner and thought of some questions to ask Superintendent Bruce, he is in charge of all three national parks that we are going to go to. Finally, we went to the work out room while Owen went swimming. Tomorrow we are going to give a presentation about DC national perks to a group of sixth graders in Sulfur public school. Today was fun and hopefully tomorrow will just the same.