Legally Blonde's Proceedings

My mom and I had a little road trip on Saturday to Oklahoma City.  Originally we planned on a full Oklahoma weekend road trip to see some sites in OKC and then go up to Pawhuska.  But the exhibit we wanted to see in OKC leaves on October 23rd, and the Pioneer Woman's Mercantile opening date got pushed to October 31st, so we just went to OKC for the day. I got my Mom hooked on AMC's television show "Hell on Wheels" before it's 3rd season.  It's a western of sorts, but centered around the building of the transcontinental railroad.  Like all AMC shows, it's very well done. The series has finished now, and they have a temporary exhibit at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in OKC.  They have several of the character's costumes on display and lots of information about the building of the railroad. Many of the characters were based on real people.  These costumes belonged to the two Railroad men characters in the series...Collins H...

I've actually been on a mission to see Christmas Around the World this year!  I just got back last night after a 23 hour travel day {sigh} from a week in London, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest.  I greatly enjoyed the Christmas decorations and Christmas Markets of Europe {more posts to come on all of that}, but then I hit the ground running this morning and took my mom over to the Gaylord Texan to see the ICE! exhibit... {Germany} {England} {USA} {Ethiopia} {Netherlands} {Mexico} There was also a North Pole and Santa's Workshop portion As always, the last part of the exhibit is the Nativity, which I recently learned is not called a Nativity around the world.  In Prague, I pointed out and item, and I said "Nativity".  They looked at me like I was nuts, and corrected me that it was "Bethlehem".  We finished up with a Gigi's cupcake at the end.