Amarillo TX and Elk City OK

Spent a week in Amarillo, and as stated in the section below enjoyed touring Palo Duro Canyon, one of the places that was most enjoyed by Georgia O'Keefe.  We also had plenty of time to catch up on some shopping, post office duties and ramping up our exercise program.  There is definitely a theme in all of our adventures and even though we don't have a brick and stick we still are creatures of habit no matter where we are!!  One of our shopping excursions involved selecting the perfect Cowboy hat for Joshua.  We ended up settling on one made from Bull hide.  As of this writing he hasn't received it yet so I surely hope he loves it!  The nicest thing about these types of hats is that you can take it to another western type store (they actually have many in Florida) and have the hat steamed and custom fit to your head if it's not perfect when you put it one.  Okay maybe that's too much information so I'll move on

We decided we are officially seniors so we ate at the Big Texan for lunch!  It was really good.  We learned that the Today show will feature a segment on their 72 oz. steak eating challenge.  The record is currently held by a woman weighing in at 120 pounds and she holds the record for eating the steak, salad, roll, baked potato and shrimp cocktail in under 5 minutes!!!  Anyway she will attempt to eat 2 of these complete dinners in under 1 hour.  I think the waitress said that this would happen April 19th.

Off we went to Elk City Oklahoma which is where I write this from.  We decided that with impending severe storms we should wait until it passes before we continue on to Tulsa OK.  If time permits we would like to visit the Oklahoma Memorial (it you can believe it the 20th year anniversary is approaching this month of the bombing of the building).  If not we will add this to our bucket list for another time.