Aaron and Meg’s Day of Fun! Part 1

Aaron took a half day off work and we left the kids with my parents to go play in Tulsa for the day!  I googled places to eat and found a place called Bread & Butter, so that was an obvious first stop! The brought us a basket of warm bread and butter while they cooked our dinner. Could life get any better?! Nope! 

We had 2 unanticipated hours to kill before the concert, so we asked the waitresses what “must see” offerings downtown Tulsa had to offer a couple of tourists. They directed us 2 blocks south of the BOK center to The Center of the Universe. Well that sounded like bait we could not resist, so we headed off on the adventure. 

The center of the universe is an accoustic anomaly on a concrete bridge over the trains at the old Tulsa Union Station. There, brick pavers in a circular design pattern the ground around a concrete center.  It is said that apin drop  can be heard in the center, but not from the edge of the circle.  I marched up to the middle with very low expectations, and asked some passers by if this was it, “the center of the universe”. Mid sentence, I was shocked by my own voice amplified back at me! I was standing out in open air, but heard my own voice as if I was speaking into a megaphone. Super cool. 








Aaron, though amused, was less impressed. “This is the best Tulsa has to offer?” 

I rebutted that Tulsa ALSO had U2 to offer, which is something NWA has not come close to in our 12 year residency. But I know what he meant. If someone told me they had 2-3 hours to kill in the area, I could send them on 100 incredible and memorable adventures.  The waitresses had thought abd thoughg abd only had bars and the center of the universe to suggest.  Point: NWA.  

We checked out the Woody Guthrie museum, the old train depot which now hosts the Jazz Hall of Fame, the cloud sculpture, and a giant candy store that looks like Alice and Wonderland and a thousand millennial females threw up in there. Like a giant tea party for 20 year old women! I fell in love with an embroidered table cloth that was out as decor for cinco de mayo, and it was sadly the only thing in the store not for sale! It was beautiful though abd now I’m on the hunt for one of my own.  We people watched for awhile and eventually hopped in the mile long like at the BOK Center.