Weekend Getaway 1,
Zhi and I went to Oklahoma State Fair. I've never been to a state fair before and I have been wanting to go to one in US with my bf- the product of watching American dramas which the boy and girl will go to a fair for a date. Well, the fair was alright. It was not as grand as the ones I saw on tv but what can u expect from Oklahoma... Anyway, we walked around. Spend the longest time in an automobile fair where I checked out the Toyota and Honda. I was planning to buy a car and thinking of buying either toyota or honda and I preferred Honda's interior! So Honda it is!!! Besides, Honda has a higher resale value. Then, we decided to buy tickets to take the ride. We rode the cable car that bring us from one end to the other end of the fair. It wasn't that high, but it was pretty scary for me. I don't have acrophobia, but looking down at our seat, feet dangling in the air... it freaked me out. I was afraid my flats will fall off and the wind was blowing which shook our seats and freaked me out even more. It was pretty embarrassing to be so scared when looking at the opposite directions, the little kids looked like they were having a blast!
We took the Ferris Wheel not as romantic as it seemed on tv... then we ate Funnel Cakes (which not as nice as the one I ate last year at Homecoming). Then we headed home. While eating the funnel cake, Zhi mentioned, "ini baru namanya pacaran yah"... This seemed to be the first real date we have. Well, our previous date mostly consist of shopping in the mall and walmart, watching movies and eating dinner together. haha...
Weekend getaway 2:
Philsbrook Museum, Tulsa
I've been wanting to go there ever since I chanced upon the photos of its beautiful garden on the net. It was like a mansion turned into art museum and there's a huge garden. The garden was as beautiful, if no more, as the pictures I saw. Zhi was rather impatient while I looked around at the paintings.
Thereafter, we bought Krispy Kreme :)
Weekend getaways 3:
Fall break.
The university gave us Friday off for Fall break. It didn't make any difference to me since I've been having my Friday off. 9 of us decided to go to Eureka Spring, Arkansas and last minute trip to Branson, MO. Actually, I planned to go to Branson, MO at first but the suggestion of going to Eureka Spring sounded better. Both are 4 hours away from Stillwater.
The weather was real gloomy, dampening my spirits a little... I don't like cold weather. It was raining and cold :(
Anyway, when we reached ES, we checked in to the hotel first. There were more of us than the number of people we said when we checked in. So, this creepy owner spied on us and saw that there were more people than we said and kicked us out. We booked 2 rooms. We just entered into one of the room to use the toilets when the owner confronted us and accused us of lying and cheating him. He wanted us to leave right away and refused to give us refund. We told him the extra people were going somewhere else, but he didn't believe us. He had no proof that we were lying and unreasonably kicked us out of the hotel without giving us our money back. We just used the toilet! And it cost us $100 +++... We refused to leave unless he gave us a refund. He threatened to call the police and we were unfazed. We moved our things back to the cars and went to the lobby. Another guy was talking to the creepy, unreasonable owner. At first we thought they were in the same gang. But he was the neutral third party that we needed. A few minutes later, the police came. The guy explained that it was a misunderstanding... The police officer knew what happened very well. Apparently, it was not the first time this had happened. The owner did this to many people before and the police kinna tired to have to be called. This was not a crime case after all. In the end, the officer was on our side. We didn't have to argue much. We just watched the police "telling off" the owner. The guy told us that the only thing we could do was to call the credit card company and cancelled the transaction.
No wonder the hotel was cheap. There wasn't anybody else staying there! When we arrived we only saw 2 cars. One was the owner's and the other car might be his too.
We had lunch, went to see the christ of ozark statue and walked around the downtown area. It was cold, and most of the shops had closed. With no hotel to stay, we decided to go to other city near ES and stayed there. There wasn't much left to see or do in ES. I suggested we go to Branson, MO. It was just about an hour away and the hotels were much cheaper there. I knew this because when i was searching hotels to stay, the website suggested branson... So, we drove to branson and booked a hotel on our way. The beauty of having iPhone- not so bad internet access.
Branson was more fun. More things to see and visit. We went to Titanic museum and then went shopping before heading home.
We decided to eat dinner at Tulsa and meet up with Farrell who was in tulsa, too.
3 consecutive getaways from stillwater was enough... the next weekend was Homecoming so there's no need to escape. haha...
Winter is coming >.<
