Today was a lovely and relaxing day. Dad & I began our adventure today at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. This artistic display of 10 caddys, nose-diving into the dirt & manure below was one of the most interesting roadside attractions I have ever seen! In 1974, a group of artists from San Francisco (heck yes San Franciscans!) had a burning desire to make a public art display that would amaze the locals. With the financial assistance from local billionaire Stanley Marsh 3, "The Ant Farm," or so the artists called themselves, made a tribute to the "evolution of the tail fins of the Cadillac." In early years, admirers would break the cars' windows and destroy the auto bodies. Some even took small pieces of the cars as souvenirs. Instead of being outraged by this, the artists and donor encouraged the self-expression. The cars became destroyed but observers still can express themselves today by spray painting whatever they please on the caddies! Pretty cool!
Papa G and I pulled into our hotel in Oklahoma City, OK early today, so we took the opportunity to relax! Dad went down to the pool, as I enjoyed one of my favorite times of the day...nap time!
For dinner, we headed to Trapper's Fishcamp & Grill where we enjoy delicious seafood and even tried pig skins & quail! The pig skins tasted like bacon flavored shrimp chips & the quail tasted like salty chicken ;)
Piggie Skins
From here, we headed to Bricktown, a vivacious area of downtown. There were horse-drawn carriage rides, live music playing in bars, water taxi rides on the canal and lively people all around! Dad & I decided to head to Michael Murphy's Dueling Piano Bar. The pianists were very talented and quite entertaining! It was a great find! I also discovered there are quite a few attractive Oklahoma men in downtown, too ;) So a good day all around!!
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