Yeehaw!

After much ado, we felt it was a rite of passage for us to visit the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum now that we're Oklahomans, sort of. That's what we did with our Black Friday instead of waking up early to fight over stuff with crazed shoppers.

Drew makes a pretty cute cowboy, but unfortunately I did not buy this hat; he wouldn't wear it anyway. I just had to get a picture. :)

I wasn't as impressed with the museum as I thought I would be, but it's still "mighty awesome." They had incredible artwork on display, which we didn't really get to enjoy because Drew was grumpy. I'm sure that played a big part in our lessened experience. They also have very impressive displays about the wild west, what people wore and did, and a whole wing dedicated to western movies, including a small theater where you get to watch a 15-minute video about the genre.

Here's Drew and Brent next to the John Wayne display. Drew was very bored, but we thought it was pretty cool.

They also have an area dedicated to American rodeos: This one's for you, Cowboy Steve!

It really made me miss Dusty LaRue and all my other cow-friends. You know who you are. :)

My favorite part of the museum is an old West town. Here's a picture of the inside of the school house.

I didn't get any good pictures of the outsides of the buildings because the museum simulates nighttime in this wing, which includes cricket noises and everything. They had a train station with a real car behind it, a dentist's office, a newspaper, a church, the school house and several other buildings.

Drew was rather impatient with the diaramas and artwork, so we headed to the kids' area, where you can touch all the displays. This didn't interest him as much, either. He's still too little to appreciate it, I think. It will be fun in another year or so. There's a display where you can dress up in western attire, so we had to subject Drew for a picture. Again, cute cowboy.

There were also several saddles you can try out, and a little log cabin just Drew's size with cooking equipment around a "fire." Drew actually enjoyed those displays.

It was a beautiful day, and we enjoyed the grounds of the museum, where we saw several wonderful statues as well as ponds, streams and fountains.

There was one part of the stream with fish in it, so Drew's doing the sign for fish in this picture.