Last stop in Oklahoma: Marland Estate Mansion

After Oklahoma City which headed over to Tulsa because we had read that they had some pretty awesome art museums. We were lucky enough to catch the last Laker's game (and they won the championship, of course!) and woke up the next morning to head to the museums. Well turns out that these museums (and most other art museums) are closed on Mondays! We didn't really want to stay another night so we headed on out of Oklahoma for Kansas. Right before we crossed state lines we stopped in Ponca,OK. We wanted to check out this mansion previously owned by an oil mogul (supposedly the mansion was a hearst castle of the great plains...not really).
We took the self guided tour and checked out all the rooms. There was some pretty interesting stuff, especially the kitchen. They had one of the first mechanical dishwashers (think of the ones you see in restaurants these days but just a prehistoric version). All of the rooms were really well preserved, one of the bathrooms (I think it was the son's) had one of those exercise machines from back in the day where you put what looks like a seat belt strap around your booty and it is supposed to rub off the fat... if only that really worked! Another one of the bathrooms had one of the first saunas ever made, to me it looked more like a tanning booth, had tons of light bulbs in it. There was some very interesting art all around the mansion. Once we were all done checking it out we headed north to Wichita, Kansas. And what was there waiting for us... oh that's right another freaking storm!
I must say that I am pretty lucky to have Joe, because I am sure no one else would put up with my "freaking out" about storms. It was the lighting or quarter size hail so much as it was the wind and in a trailer the wind makes you feel like at any moment you will be taken up into the air and that's it, "your not in Kansas anymore"!
I did get some really cool photos of the one of the storms that we were in.