We took a day trip to OKC last Saturday just to get out of the house for a day. We went to the Ominplex during the day and to Remington Park at night. If you haven’t been before the Omniplex is primarily an interactive science museum. They have an aviation and photography section too. Katrina had a blast there playing with all the different exhibits. Her favorite was the shadow wall. It flashes a strobe light against screen that then glows for the next few seconds except where your shadow was. We spent about four hours there before they closed and kicked us out.

They also had a planetarium that normally cost extra but they were including in the museum admission the day we went. It was pretty neat, but I wasn’t as impressed as I thought I’d be. It was really just a static image of the night sky with an announcer pointing out constellations. I noticed they hadn’t gotten around to taking Pluto out of their model solar system outside the planetarium yet.

After the Omniplex we drove half way across town to eat dinner at our usual place (Fazoli’s), and then back to go Remington Park which is immediately next door to the Omniplex. I’d never been to a horse race before so wasn’t sure exactly what to expect, but considering I spend about half my time at work on a horse racing website I figured I’d at least check it out. It was pretty entertaining. I wouldn’t want to go every night, but we might go back once or twice a year.

I was really impressed that it didn’t cost anything at all to go, both admission and parking were free. They even had free pop. I was also impressed that they had open seeting just a few feet away from the track and we were able to stand right at the finish line. It started raining after the first race ran so we went inside to watch the rest of them. They have second floor indoor seating that overlooks the track.

Between it being dark out, sitting about 50 yards from the track and the horses running pretty fast most of my pictures turned out blurry (going to have to get yet another new lense). Here’s a few that turned out. Kind of…