Spontaneous Road Trip/Mini Vaca

Well, Nathaniel finally got a whole weekend off! Of course, it was partly because it was a holiday weekend but hey I will take what I can get!! Nathaniel helped his dad work on their house Saturday and had been for the past few weekends when he had one of the days off. So I kinda had to put my foot down and whine a little to get Sunday to be a day for us!! We decided to take a drive over to Oklahoma to see the Native American museum. Nathaniel had been there one other time on a school field trip. He had always told me he was going to take me to show me my ancestry!

We had alot of fun. They have an entire true village set up and give daily tours. We got to see the small houses they lived in. I never knew it but each family actually had 2 homes, summer & winter! Wouldn't that be nice!! They guide showed us games they played, how they made their bows, arrows, blow guns, bowls, food, etc. Touring museums, galleries etc is something Nathaniel and I both really enjoy doing and tend to do so often!

When we finished there we decided to get something to eat.

While we were eating we decided we would drive up to Broken Arrow to Bass Pro and that we would get a hotel room and stay the night! Since this was a spontaneous decisions, neither of us had clothes etc!. Anyone that knows me, knows I am a major planner and this was defiantly out of the norm for me especially staying the night without clothes! Since it was the 4th of July weekend, we asked the hotel receptionist if there was any firework shows going on that night, Sunday the 3rd. He told us about the Baptist College in town and how they have a huge show every year, and suggested we go back to Bass Pro to park to see the show.

We decided to get some ice cream and head on down to find parking. While trying to make our way to Braums, we had to make it through tons of people and cars. There was people everywhere, from what we heard people drive in yearly to watch the shows there! We finally got some ice cream and started making our way to Bass Pro. We found a spot to park and ask a older couple whom pulled up beside us which direction we should be looking. They told us the direction for the college show but also said we could walk to the other end of the parking lot a bit and see other shows while waiting for the college show to start. We could hear big fireworks going off all around us, sounded like thunder! Fireworks were lighting the sky all around us and before we knew it fireworks were going off right in front of us!! Bass Pro was putting on a show in the parking lot, the opposite side as us! We were able to lay back in the grass and enjoy a beautiful show!! When they finished up we went back to our original spot and waited for the college show to start. Now I can not figure out if it was because we were so close but the Bass Pro show kicked the colleges booty!! Haha! It seemed as if minutes went by between fireworks at the college, but Bass Pros was constant!! They were doing so much, that at one point they had a good fire going on the ground where they were lighting them off but it didnt stop them!! We had a great time!!! Though, we had to get up early to head back, we had made plans to be at my parents for lunch on the 4th. It was a great mini getaway and within those 2 days, I became spoiled getting to spend every minute with the hubby!!
Of course, I took my camera and had a blast taking pics of the fireworks!! Some of the shots are so cool and don't look like fireworks at all!!