The Adventures of Kouisse, Bidou and Camille !: March 2011

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Visit at the Arch - St. Louis Missouri

Kouisse is getting special training for the capsule that will bring her to the top of the Arch...630 feet high!

George made it to the top without training and he likes the Dandy view!!

Bidou it proud to be up there too!

What a Dandy view indeed!! You can see the old Court House (in the center) - a Dandy view from a window at the top of the Arch

Fantastic visit at the Cahokia Mounds near St. Louis Missouri (click on the title)

One of the greatest cities of the world, Cahokia was larger than London was in AD 1250

Monk Mound was man made (as were the other 71 Mounds in the area) and it was the highest point in the city of at least 10,000 citizens

The view from up Monk Mound was fabulous! Thanks for the picture George!

Look at the cars below...they are way small. We felt like we were on top of the world...not bad for a man made mountain! Who said that men couldn't move mountains??

Tulsa Oklahoma to St. Louis Missouri

Nice and sunny when George arrived at the Arch "The Gateway to the West"

Nice and sunny when Kouisse arrived at the Arch "The Gateway to the West"

Nice and sunny when CC Top arrived at the campground but...it was closed for the season even if our tourism books stated that it was opened year around...we had to camp in the parking lot the old fashion way!

But the next morning, we woke up with a -4 Celcius and a couple inches of snow...reality is kicking in!! Even Camille seems to enjoy the snow.

Oklahoma City Bombing - 19 April 1995

Our first stop after leaving Dallas TX was Oklahoma City in order to visit the Memorial for the 168 people killed on 19 April 1995 when a car full of explosives went BANG!

The explosion took place at 09:02 am and nineteen of the victims were small children and babies in the day care center on the second floor of the building

The chairs represent each person that died on that day according to floor they were on when the car-bomb exploded

Many friends, family members and pure strangers are leaving "momentos" in order to keep the tragedy alive in their heart...Tragedies like that should never happen!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Last meal in Texas before heading back home !!

BBQ pork chops...yummy!! Thank you George!

Colette's dessert (Bidou's mom) never goes out of style when you are RVing

After dinner, the routine and reality kick in ...we need to plan our trip for the next day...335 km to Oklahoma City

How many time can a small car like ours be hit by a trailer hitch? Can you spot our most recent hit...it happenned while in Arizona?

Cattle raisers Museum - Dallas TX

We couldn't leave Texas without visiting a Cattle Museum

Longhorn cattles have...long horns!!

Branding Iron collection...you needed a course to learn the lingot

George and Kouisse getting ready for rounding up the cattles!

Downtown Dallas TX

George was told that it would be very difficult for him to become a cowboy because he has a "way larger than normal round head"...that is top-notch salesman skills in Dallas!! Yeah!!

Who wants to become a cowboy when you have "Johnny Wayne" as best friend??

HONKY TONK

Nice and clean city

Dallas TX - JFK Assassination - 1963

Kouisse standing exactly where JFK was shot the first time (that shot did not kill him). You can see the Sixth Floor Museum in the background where the shots were fired.