Past Adventures - OKC 4/2006, part 1

We arrived at our hotel which was not as close to downtown OKC as we had anticipated. Add to that the girls restroom was being renovated as was the pool and it just gave us an unsettled feeling. We thought to ourselves, hmmm, maybe we should find a different hotel. And so we did and we chose the Whitten Inn.

We decided to go and eat breakfast somewhere and as we exited the hotel I noticed across the street there was a restaurant named Gramma Max's. I shouted, "There's Gramma Max's!" for no apparent reason. Well that was the name of the restaurant but why it excited me is a mystery. I had never eaten there or even heard of the place but seeing the sign stirred something inside me. I probably need to have that checked out.

We ate breakfast at Charly's. Ever been there? It's right off the highway and it was good and it was cheap. I mean, it was inexpensive.

Shirley was our waitress and she was pretty nice. When our food was ready she brought it to the table and said, "Soups on!" and we thought it was pretty funny. So check it out and ask for Shirley and tell her I sent you. She won't remember me and it won't make sense to her but we can all share a laugh or two.

We drove to our new hotel called "The Whitten Inn" where their motto is, "When you sleep with Whitten, you purr like a kitten." If you are going to have a motto that's a pretty nice one. On some of the doors there are red cards. We asked what that was about and they said that nurses who worked the night shift at the local hospital were asleep in those rooms. Apparently they rent them by the week. We've never seen that before so that was interesting.

We actually got an unexpected discount from The Whitten Inn. We were initially quoted a price of $79 and when we were talking with the lady at the front desk we were talking about budgets. She said if the price is not in your budget, what is? I said $65 and she said she could lower it to $67. What else is there to say besides....okay.

We freshened up in our hotel room and headed to the State Capitol. To be continued.....