Oklahoma City

I mentioned in a previous post that I travel a lot for work.  I also travel a lot for fun. I studied abroad in Rome my sophomore year of college and ever since then have had a travel bug.

Recently, I traveled to Oklahoma for two very important reasons:

1. My best friend Clare lives there

2. Notre Dame was playing Oklahoma.

Clare and I both went to St. Mary's (the sister school of Notre Dame) so when we found out that ND was playing Oklahoma in Norman, I figured what better time than to visit her and go to the game. I headed out there and was so excited to see her!!

We did all of the fun tourist things like going to the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, we had lunch with her dad downtown- it was so much fun!

We were also really excited that ESPN College GameDay was in Norman for the game.

We were nervous for the game in the beginning but we won!!

 The day after the game, I was supposed to fly home to Philadelphia but couldn’t because Hurricane Sandy had other plans. So I got “stuck” in Oklahoma with my best friend for 3 extra days. Rough life I know.

It was great! We watched movies and did nothing, we went to the zoo (which was actually really great- very similar to the San Diego Zoo- if you’re ever in OKC check it out) 

The baby elephant as so cute!

We also checked out the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

Yes, we took advantage of the children’s exhibits and dressed up as cowboys. We are really 5 at heart.

One of the random highlights of the trip was accidently stumbling across a place called Mama E’s. We Yelped places right near the cowboy museum and this showed up. Needless to say, we were a little unsure when we pulled it but figured we’d go for it. Turns out this restaurant had been featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives!

It was a great trip and I was so happy to be reunited with my best friend.