Day 18 - July 4th = FIREWORKS!!

The next morning was spent driving around and visiting various historical locations along Route 66... The road being as run down as it is, it made for a very bumpy ride! So bumpy in fact that as we were driving, one of the shelves in the fridge broke! Don't worry all of the beer was saved, I know that is what everyone else was wondering too, wasn't it? haha.

We were supposed to stop in at another Route 66 diner, but when we got there, it was closed for some reason... It looked like they may have been doing renovations? Instead we drove for about another 30 minutes and gave up on trying to find a decent place to eat and settled for a nice, healthy serving of KFC... It was disgusting as expected, but did the job and stopped our stomachs from eating us from the inside out! After that we stopped of at a Route 66 museum just outside of Ohklahoma City.. It wasn't too bad but they didn't have much memorabilia as we had expected, but we learn't that the building itself was actually an old military garrison that had been used for storing weapons and artillery...

By that point of the day I think everyone had had enough of museums and wanted to hurry up and set up camp for the night, because everyone knew that after we had finished setting up for the night, we could finally let off the fireworks that had been sitting in the back of the RV for the better part of a week!! We ended up staying in a town about 100 miles or so out of Oklahoma City, called Elk City. We didn't get there until about 7:30 and then hung around the campsite for a little bit to recooperate from the long drive we'd had that day... Before we knew it, it was 9pm (sun was only just setting haha) and we decide that it was time to go and unleash mayhem on the citizens of Elk City!

We parked in an empty baseball field where multiple groups had set up and started to let their own fireworks off and proceeded to get stuck into our own pile! I will tell you this now, if you thought some of the firecrackers they allow in the N.T. were big, wait until you hear some of these ones! We had managed to survive the night and came out relatively unscathed (a few burns from adam throwing jumping jacks at us while we were trying to light some of the missiles) and there was one last firecracker that we wanted to try that night... THE BESERKER!! It shot single artillery rounds and they were as big as the government displays that they let off down at the waterfront!! Of course we decided we would save a few for when we were camping in the desert over the next few days so we could stay entertained haha!

We didn't get back to the RV until about 12 midnight and everyone  had a few nibbles of some food out of the fridge and crashed out for the night...

Next stop... Texas and New Mexico!

Mark