I'm really behind, so I'm really in Colorado, but I'll try and keep these in order so I'll write about our Sunday in Oklahoma and Texas.
We started out the morning in a hotel with me doing laundry, unfortunately the "guest dryer" worked so poorly that after I took the clothes out, no one could tell they had been in the dryer at all. We were in a time crunch, so we really had a problem of what to do with two loads of wet clothes. Doug went up to the desk and informed them that the dryer wasn't working, and convinced them to let us put all our clothes in the industrial dryers in their laundry room. The maid wasn't all that thrilled about having to take all the sheets and towels out for us, which was too bad. All it took was for them to dry while we were eating breakfast and everything was done. I wonder how much one of those things cost?
We first went to the Oklahoma City National Memorial, such a beautiful and somber place. It is the first time that I have been to a major Memorial for an event that I remember. It has a different mood there, it was built while wounds were still very fresh. There is still a fence there that people still leave things on, the most touching was a "Class of 2010" t-shirt that was signed by the students who would have been the classmates of the children killed there that day. It was difficult to try to explain things to Ian in a way he could understand, mostly because I don't understand.
After the memorial we went to sacrament meeting in a ward in Oklahoma City. I wish I could find a way to issue a blanket apology to the Oklahoma City First Ward. We were sitting in the middle of the chapel about five rows back, and were all so exhausted that after sitting down we immediatley fell asleep, the whole row except of course for one 5 year old who was just thrilled to finally be out of the car. I have no idea how he behaved, because, well, I was asleep. So embarrassing.
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