Where the Wind Comes Sweepin' Down the Plain

The bright side of driving miles and miles through Oklahoma is that it has lots of random stuff to look at along the way.  Stuff like this random tee-pee

And this gigantic casino that Austin and Santino stayed in:

And this really shiny Denny's:

And other weird stuff that I couldn't take a picture of because I was driving at 75mph and that is too obscure to find a picture of on Google.  All in all, it was a good drive.  After maneuvering your way out of Dallas traffic, there's really no traffic worth complaining about...except for a 20 mile stretch through Muskogee, OK, where one of the two lanes was closed for no apparent reason and traffic bopped along at a roaring 10mph in a stop-and-go fashion.  That just gave me more time to contemplate that tee pee I told you about.  

About 6 hours exactly after I set out on my journey, I arrived at my hotel in Joplin where I have since been laying around - did some working, did some facebooking - and eventually ventured out to Moe's, got a burrito to-go, and ate it while watching Roman Holiday on my laptop.  I'm wrapping up the evening now with the abundance of Molly Ringwald movies that always seems to be on Vh1 late at night.  This time it's Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles.  I've never seen Sixteen Candles all the way through before, and I kind of find it annoying...but now I feel committed to watching the whole thing just to have seen it.

Well, that's all I have to report.  Excited to see the family tomorrow :)