Summertime! and the livin’s easy

After crying myself to sleep last night I woke up to the realization that today marks the first day of summer! Instead of dwelling on the past and he-who-must-not-be named, aka the Dark Lord, aka rhymes with ReDron Wames, I have decided to look to the future and all the great things that are included in the OKC summer schedule. Here’s a small smattering of upcoming events to whet your appetite.

The Tempest, part of Shakespeare in the Myriad Botanical Gardens, starts just after July 4th. Plus it is on the water stage which is super cool.

The Tempest
July 5 – 21, 2012
Myriad Gardens Water Stage

Yep, that is water around the stage. It’s pretty legit. I wonder if you can swim underneath it. Probably not.

Plus the botanical gardens just announced that they are going to continue the movies on the lawn that they started during the Dead Center Film Festival. This is the BEST news I’ve heard all day (thanks Kathleen!).

I am tweeting them immediately with Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Finding Nemo and High School Musical 3.

Apparently the Botanical Gardens decided to be totally awesome this summer because they are also hosting the Sunday night twilight concert series. Like a boss.

Can’t wait for Smilin’ Vic and the Soul Monkeys.

Last but not least is cocktails on the skyline at the OKC Museum of Art. Thursday evenings the museum decides to combine rooftops and drinking, something that sounds inherently dangerous but is actually quite safe. The view is amazing and they also have live music.

No idea who these people are but it looks like they’re having fun.

PS – Thunder, I still love you even though you keep breaking my heart.

Visit to Tulsa

Last Friday night Alex and I braved the storms and drove to Tulsa for the Avett Brothers concert at Brady Theater.

Need these or they don't let you in. You know your seats are great when there are two letters next to the row instead of one.

After Alex pried me from our makeshift tornado shelter in the basement and promised me that we would only have to drive through some rain to get to Tulsa, we headed out.  We ended up making it to Tulsa in record time probably because I made Alex drive really fast to outrun all the storms.  We headed right to the theater to pick up the tickets and found an awesome restaurant/pub near the theater called the Brady Tavern.

Brady Tavern.
*does not actually sell stoves and refrigerators

After a delicious meal and some excellent wine we headed over to the theater to see the Avett Brothers. There was a full rainbow outside but unfortunately I could only capture half of it with my phone. Someone obviously needs to create an app for that.  It can be called the BeautiFULL Rainbow Photo App: capture the whole ‘bow, not just the rain. Bam, just made someone a millionaire.

Wish I had a pic of the whole thing...

Though our seats were less than stellar (see Row HH above) we still enjoyed the concert and the venue and the lack of tornadoes.

Those aren't ants, just the Avett Brothers.

Afterwards we grabbed a drink at the Mayo Hotel (such a cool hotel!) and enjoyed walking around downtown. The downtown Tulsa area reminds me of automobile alley in OKC- very neat art deco architecture.

Glad I faced my fears and left OKC for a great night in Tulsa!