Then we made our way over to a little restaurant called Cattlemen's! We heard about this through the show Man Vs. Food... we saw the host east the Presidential Steak (a T-Bone Steak that was loved by President Bush) But it was literally the best steak I've EVER eaten... soooooo good. (Check out the video at the bottom) As we left, we had the best waiter ever... we asked him if we could buy a novelty cup from their store, he said he'd be happy to put it on our bill and bring it to us at the table. We wanted one of the glass boot cups... but he liked us so much he brought us 2 glasses but charged us for one! It was great!!
After that... not much to report. About 500 miles later we landed here in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. A lot of driving... it was beaufitul to watch the sunset over the plains of New Mexico! Look for it in one of the photos. As we got near Santa Rosa though, the gas light came on... and we still had like 23 miles to go.... with NO gas stations between us and our exit. There were exits, but they just led to other endless roads stretching into the distance. Luckily we made it, but we were dangerously close to being completely on E...thank goodness we got to the exit, but I literally think we were on fumes. (I didn't tell Sarah this, because I didn't want to worry her... but I was breaking a slight sweat)
We saw a bunch of hitchhikers today, one cowboy (might've been a cowgirl) and a lot of beautiful landscapes!
One quick story... we're driving through Texas and I love the landscape, so I pull over and get out the tripod and we were going to get a photo of the two of us with the landscape behind us! We set up and the camera is counting down and then it shuts off! The battery died! I told Sarah she should've charged it the night before... but noooo. So then we get in the car, defeated, and I try to tell the story to our video camera...but then my card for the video recorder is full! BLAST!
The story has a sad ending though...because it turns out I broke Sarah's new camera that her parents bought her for christmas! This makes it unchargable.... but we're going to stop somewhere and get an external charger for it... and when we get to LA I'm going to send it out to get fixed... I'm sorry Sarah!!!
I wanted to say that from yesterday and the day before, we didn't get the photo of the signs into Missouri and Oklahoma because Missouri didn't have one as we crossed the bridge into St. Louis and Oklahoma came up on us too fast to get a picture (I didn't realize how close we were, but it was night and probably would've been a bad photo anyway)
I've been trying to upload videos...but our connection isn't great, so I can't do many. I'll do them as I can!
Enjoy these photos for now! That's it for tonight....
Me at the Oklahoma Memorial
Sarah at the Oklahoma Memorial
The reflecting pool at the site of the bombing, with the survivor tree in the distance. The tree stands now, dedicated to those who survived and to the power of the nation to stand together. The tree was there when the bombing happened and survived the explosion itself...
The seats are arranged to represent those killed in the blast. There are 9 rows, for the 9 floors of the building. Each seat has a name on it, for the person who died on that floor. The big seats represent adults, the small ones represent children.
The full memorial. It was very nice.
Cattlemen's! Yum! Thanks Man Vs. Food!
A Little blurry, but that's us with our Presidential Steaks!
The crossover into Texas! (We tried to get the cross to New Mexico, but Sarah's camera was dead and it was too dark to see on my camera. The sun was setting and there was a huge glare.)
Some of the beautiful Texas view!
The sunset in New Mexico (Sarah got her camera to take one last photo... barely got it off!)
Sarah enjoying Cattlemen's!
Totally jealous of you two!!!! Be safe <3
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