Chasing ducks and fountains

The primary agenda of the day was clothing. School is out, and much of the kids' summerwear has been outgrown, so we went shopping at the mall, preceded by a short visit to the bank. We picked up I think six outfits between them and a pair of work pants for me to replace a recent casualty.

After shopping we had lunch, and the girls wanted to go to the book store, so we spent about thirty minutes there, where they each got to pick out a book. While paying for the books I had a particularly embarrassing moment where I accidentally dumped much of the contents of my wallet behind the counter and the bookstore clerk girl had to collect all of my things and hand them to me. Turns out none of the stuff was terribly embarrassing in and of themselves, but it was still like having a total stranger go through your wallet, all the while you can't help but think "what was in there?" Don't worry, no birth control aides were present, you sick bastards.

With no hard plans from there we went to a park and the girls got to play for like an hour and a half. There was a funny scenario where the girls were chasing a family of ducks, but the ducks couldn't fly away I guess because of the younger ducks, so they just waddled really fast. It was a funny site I wish I had video tapped.

We were supposed to try to catch a baseball game this evening, but a last minute check of the schedule showed them to be out of town, so that tainted our evening plans. But we went to Bricktown anyway and I let the girls cool off by playing in the dancing fountains. They did that for about thirty minutes and got completely soaked (I'll put up a full page off pics later, but here's a before, during, and after for now). We walked up and down the canal for awhile so they could dry off, and then we had dinner at the Zio's on the canal, requesting an outdoor seat on the balcony so the girls could further dry off.

At the start of our meal outside, it was partly cloudy at times, but very sunny and warm most of the time. While we were sitting there, a very large storm cloud crept in over us and the temperature dropped noticeably. Remembering the mention of possible tornadic activity in the metro area this evening, we got finished with our food and took off.

Turns out there were tornado producing storms heading toward OKC, but fortunately they veered north rather than to our part of town. Though I think they went through some neighborhoods of people I know, so I do hope everyone made it through unscathed.