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One of the first jobs my mother after a college education is a Tulsa, and as I accompany him on a trip to the city over 30 years later, I am surprised by how much she remembers. At the Utica Square shopping mall near downtown, she tells me how she used to be fashionable. "People dressed up to shop here," she said.

Having just arrived in the city, we are more willing to eat that to make purchases. More Queenie's Cafe is packed in the middle of the afternoon, and I quickly why: carrot cake, cream cake strawberries, and the giant gingersnaps and snicker doodles in the dessert. I pressed by a chicken salad sandwich and went to fix my sugar - still a hot chocolate chip cookie.


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We happily stuffed and a light rain began to fall, then I suggest that we take in some culture at the Gilcrease Museum. He has an excellent collection of art and historical objects of the American West, like Thomas Moran landscapes of the vast emptiness and colored border USA rawhide bags and headdresses.

The rain is to leave when we leave, we take a walk in the gardens rose at Woodward Park. I booked a room at the Inn at Woodward Park, but we are apprehensive when you see the sign front, which calls for a "Roaring 20s Bed and Breakfast." Fortunately, the inn is charming, not cliché. We are in the Hall of Hollywood, which has a mahogany bed, an elegant lounge chair, and fleur de lys stencils on the walls bathroom.

Gorging on country-style food is an essential activity Oklahoma, mother informs me that we drive to the outskirts of Claremore for dinner at a restaurant Hammett, known for large portions so that most people have trouble finishing . Although the decor could use the help - a chance football poster hangs on fishing colored walls - the food is outstanding. I order chicken-fried chicken: a chicken breast coated with flour, fried in oil and covered with a thick sauce of milk, flour and eggs. I can not eat any dish, which looks like it could feed a football team.

Driving back, we turn on the radio and find a country music. When Brad Paisley "Celebrity" is gleefully us to: "Because when you're a celebrity, it's adios reality!" I am still singing the music as I climb into bed that night.