On day two of the annual Daddy/daughter trip, we headed to the National Cowboy Museum!
When you’re in Oklahoma City, how can you not?
Things I learned at the museum:
– Cowboys in some areas wore special extra protection around their feet while riding horses. (I had no idea.) There was a special name for those things… Daddy, do you remember what it is?
– People pay a LOT of money for art. The paintings in some of the galleries were for sale, and many had the bought dot. Someone paid over $40,000 for a painting.
The best part of the museum was this place called “Prosperity Junction.” It was SO cool! In fact, that was the tip I left on foursquare – that you must check out prosperity junction. (And, dearest reader, if you don’t follow me on foursquare, you can click that link and do it. I would love you even more than I already do, which I know seems barely possible.)
So, Prosperity Junction is this crazy super realistic life-like display of an early 1900s town. There are fake life-size horses. There’s a church you can go into. You can go in the photo studio and other places. And there are real sounds coming out of everything! There are a bunch of creepy sounds coming from the back of the train yard. It all sounds (and therefore feels) so real!
We also got a bunch of really fun pictures with statues. (If you want to see them all, you can check out my album either on flickr or Facebook – whichever is your network of choice).
Then we went to another museum, which I will talk about tomorrow.