Day 8 – OK City

Today we cleaned, packed, said our goodbyes, and headed OK City.  It is only about a 2 hour drive…so that was nice.  Along the way we even passed Checotah…the hometown of Carrie Underwood (American Idol winner).  After a quick lunch, we checked into our hotels and quickly got settled then headed to the Oklahoma City Zoological Park.  ALL of the information about zoo said it closed at 7pm…but when got there at 4pm---they said they had just recently (due to budget cuts) changed the closing time to 5pm! So…we went to the zoo for an hour…which was fine cause it was like 100+ degrees J  The zoo was actually a really nice one.  After our zoo trip got cut short we had some time before dinner so we headed to at the mall…which was huge and has a ton of cool stores.  So we wandered around there for about an hour and then had dinner at an Italian restaurant connected to the mall.  It was really YUMMY!  After dinner we came back to hotel to relax, swim, and hang out.  Tomorrow we will sleep in a little and then do some more touristy stuff.