OKC - Change of Plans!

Well, we are getting ready to head out of Amarillo, TX and head for Oklahoma City, OK. This will be our next new temple, #51! I was on lds.org looking up the temple schedule and uh-oh... I realized that it closed today for two weeks for cleaning... TWO WEEKS. Bummer... When we found out it was closing for two years for major renovations, I made a very unfortunate assumption that it wouldn't be closing before that for any smaller maintenance. I was wrong.

So... We will be getting up to drive from Amarillo to OKC tomorrow and the temple will be closed. So we've been discussing our options - none of which are very appealing. School is picking up for me (I have my first set of exams this weekend) and we've already traveled over 1400 miles in the last two weeks. We've decided to stay put in OKC for two weeks and explore, take it easy, catch up on work and school, and wait for the temple to open again on July 5th.


Definitely a huge curve ball... BUT, things happen for a reason. We discussed that we could drive on to Memphis, see that temple and some friends in Nashville and Arkansas, then drive back and see OKC, but we agreed before we even started that we wanted to take it easy on this trip. Against our natural instinct to rush and see everything, or skip things to get from one destination to another more quickly, we really wanted to slow down and get to know these new places we are visiting. So we are doing just that.

We are driving on to stay in OKC on a property that has been opened to us. We are excited to get there and see what OKC has to offer!

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