I had such an amazing night last night with the two girls from the paper, Meghan and Wendy. We went out to Brookside, a trendy little area in Tulsa. We ate dinner and had some beers at Brook’s Restaurant and Bar, an old cinema they had converted into a diner, it was pretty spiffy…the wait staff was awesome.
Meghan even made muffins and brought them into work because it was my last day at the TBJ…they kept calling me their foreign exchange student from “The North” lol….they’re incredibly fabulous. It’s nice to be able to file “Wendy Stories” and “Johnny Figment” into the memory banks.
- “Wendy Stories” were born when Wendy told Meghan and I this really sad story about the guy who create Precious Moments because she had seen the Precious Moments Chapel with her mom. Long story short, she was VERY close to having the story right and would have gotten away with it had Meghan and I not looked it up online. We started calling all of her detailed stories “Wendy Stories” and then fact checked them all when she was done talking. The whole office was doing it after awhile, it was funny. (And for the record, it was an honest mistake, she just didn’t hear the tour guide correctly).
- Johnny Figment is what Meghan and I started calling Wendy’s husband because Meghan is convinced he doesn’t really exist as she has yet to see him. (For the record, he does exist and he is a 6’4″ Irish born giant…Wendy is 4’9″ or something).
After we finished our drinks, we walked around downtown and found an awesome shop with old school candy: candy dots on the paper (where you end up eating more paper than candy), candy cigarettes and ZOTS! I love Zots! They’re hard candy with fizzy stuff in the middle. I remember getting a string of four of them for a dime when my family first moved to Lapeer and they sold them at the movie rental store. Now you get a string of four for 50 cents. The girls had never had them, so I bought a string of each flavor. Meghan and I basically devoured them while Wendy only tried one or two.
We ended the evening sitting on a curb outside a dive bar, across from an artsy coffee shop (people were inside painting so we couldn’t get a table). We sat there for a good two hours just talking and people watching, it was a great way to wrap up the two weeks (er…seven) here.
Okay enough jabbering…onto the assortment of pics from my last 2 weeks in Tulsa!
I ate at Elote’s almost every day for lunch because it was TOO delicious. Everything they serve is organic and local grown when possible and the staff was super friendly. I was a regular known on first name basis by the time I left.
Chicken Burrito…it’s like Heaven in your mouth
Puffy Tacos, yummers
A week ago Friday we went to this awesome Pub where you can get a mug for $35 inscribed with whatever you wish. They then have them all over the bar and the waitresses will hunt them down. They also have this thing called the Century Club or something…When you have tried 50 different beers you get a certificate and if you drink over a 100 different kinds you get a special plaque on the wall…it was pretty stellar. I had a ton of pics but deleted them before I put them on my computer **DOH**
I have this one pic of the refreshing Smithwick’s I enjoyed…
This kitty didn’t want me to take her pic, but she was soooooo sweet, i think her name was Little Miss Dirty and she lived at the liquor store next to my hotel. I had a long talk with the owner one night because he apparently was a Computer Science Major who decided he likes to sell liquor more. He was on his way to a job at IBM when he was offered a job with Crown Royal and he asked if they would match what IBM was going to pay him and to put it in writing…now he is one lucky dude
Little Miss Dirty had a kitten too that was running around the store, I laughed when the guy told me “They don’t even break that much…”
This is the parking garage I parked in every day. My friends Josh and Katy both had the privilege of hearing me drive out on various occasions and laughed so hard with all of the honking. The ramps aren’t quite wide enough for two cars, so sometimes you get into a chicken fight…
I parked on the “Pink Level” every day
In our company we get some money to “Make Their Day”, some people buy pizza or donuts…I like to do a personal touch. This time I bought them all a box of Nerds, a box of Milk Duds and a packet of Gushers with a star sticky note that I wrote “Thanks for being such a big NERD and not a DUD…I can’t help but GUSH about how awesome it was working with you! -Michelle”. They got a kick out of it 
Best Zucchini Fries EVER at Billy’s downtown
Finally…a beer with 7% alcohol (Oklahoma has a law that most beer you buy can only be 3% and liquor no more than 40 proof I think)
Route 66 used to run right through Tulsa, so we had fun finding some of the landmarks
Meghan (in pink) and Wendy (In blue) displaying their paper box on Route 66 haha
Hahaha….Joe Momma’s…
There were some cool wood carvings at Utica Square, a cute/yuppy shopping center Wendy and I hit up after work one day
Wendy and Meghan bought me this luggage tag “To remember them forever”
And last but not least, I got me some Patriot Tom’s! If you don’t know what Tom’s are…I urge you all to try to buy at least ONE pair! For every pair you buy, it buys a child a pair of shoes! Learn about it on their WEBSITE. You’ll be seeing me wear mine all fall!
