Visit from the Sister

This weekend my sister Jen came to visit us here in OKC. We had a great weekend full of a lot of sweating, it was miserably hot, probably an average of 103. Our usual weekends here in Oklahoma have been fairly relaxing and uneventful but we did a number of things with Jen as our guest.
She flew in Friday afternoon, Amanda picked her up from the airport and they picked me up (getting lost on the way) and we went out for lunch. She and Amanda talked wedding while I was still at work. After work we took her up to Hafer Park and showed her where I proposed where she took a picture of us reenacting the proposal.
Did anyone else know there are mountains in Oklahoma? Well I didn't either. I had heard from a number of people since I have been out here that there are some mountains in Southwestern OK called the Wichita Mountains. I refused to believe it until I saw them with my own eyes. So yesterday we made a trip down there to visit them. We decided to get up fairly early and drive down there to get a start before it got too hot (it got up to 105). We took a fairly short hike up to the top of Elk Mountain which provided a good view of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Preserve. Open range conditions allow bison and longhorns all over the preserve. Since it was so hot, after the hike we ate lunch at a miniature picnic table and sat in the shade with a nice breeze and talked for a couple hours. On the way out of the preserve we stopped at the visitors center and drove up to the top of Mount Scott for another great view. Pictures from the visit can be found here.
Last night we went to Bricktown and ate at the Bricktown Brewery where Jen treated us to dinner to celebrate our engagement. We decided to get dessert at the Melting Pot but couldn't get a table until 9:45 so we ended up going to the Redhawks baseball game where we watched the last 5 innings of their game versus the Las Vegas 51's. Needless to say the Banana's Foster Chocolate fondue we had was amazing.
Today we made a visit to the Oklahoma City Memorial and Musuem which is dedicated to the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building. The memorial was very nice and the museum had a lot of interesting information.
We had a great weekend with Jen visiting us and are looking forward to coming back home to see all of our family.