Yesterday morning at 8:58 am central, Kenda and I pulled up at Dave's place in Oklahoma City. Tumbling out the door came Dave, Ronni and Katrina, soon joined by April and her DH and the cowchipper mobile. Everything good you have ever heard about Dave is true. He is a wonderful, thoughtful and considerate man who is also a wonderful host. After making sure we got pictures of each other and the group and spending time exchanging goodies and looking at each other's scrapbooks (my these people are so talented!) we got into Kenda's van and the cow mobile and went down to the OKC National Memorial. How terrible and wonderful that place is. There are no words adequate enough... to describe the place that I had watched on CNN as events unfolded back on April 19th, 1995. It is not an easy place to visit, yet it is a place that reminds one of how horrible and how wonderful people can be to each other.
We left the magnificent and moving memorial and went on to see the origins of OKC, the Oklahoma National Stockyard. This was of course followed by a stop at a scrapbook store, BTW thanks Dave for the wonderful tag and the paper that you snuck into my bag; they are great! I think I'll use the OKC paper to scrap the stokyard pictures I took and the tag to head off the whole trip during which Kenda and I managed to visit 7 different scrapbook stores. But I am sure Kenda will have more to tell you about that!
After a wonderful meal at a Mexican Restaurant, Kenda and I took Katrina back to her car at Dave's and then drove back to Little Rock as Kenda was starting her 24 hour shift at 7AM this morning.
How lucky I have been to meet these members of RCS! Just like the FL ladies that I met in Orlando during Shelley's visit there, Barb Quilts, Deb in AR and Renee, each person is very different, but all are without exception, talented in this hobby but more importantly, at least in my opinion, each person is great at living life with kindness and gusto and a desire to share their talents and hobbies with others. The more members I meet, the more glad I am to have been welcomed by all of you here at RCS.
I'll let Kenda and the others tell you what else we did. Please go to my webshot account (RCS Oklahome Meeting) to see some of the pictures I took. I'll post more later. I'll also post smaller versions of the pictures for those with webTV in the next couple of days.