It's Kissmas Time!

We started out a little before 7 (central time) this morning. We have driven 525 miles today. We stopped a little before 5 (central time) this evening in Russellville, AR. It was starting to get dark and there was rain ahead so we stopped for the night. After we got our room we went out to eat at a really good barbeque restaurant--Pudgy Pig Bar-B-Que. We both had pulled pork sandwiches. Woody had baked beans and their regular slaw and I had their Cajun slaw and homestyle potato salad. We both enjoyed the sandwiches and sides very much. We are now settled into the hotel for the night. Woody has gone to check out their exercise room and perhaps spin on an exercise bike for a while.

When we stopped at a reststop today, I spotted this tree with mistletoe in it. Mistletoe is the Oklahoma state flower...adopted as the state flower in 1893...14 years before statehood. We saw lots of mistletoe in trees as we drove along today...this was the closest that we got to some. And, when we pulled up to the hotel tonight the bottom corner picture was what greeted us...very welcoming! We stopped at the Arkansas welcome center and it was all decorated for Christmas with a fire burning in the fireplace. Oklahoma and Arkansas are putting us into a Christmas mood! (Now to get inspired almost as soon as we hit the door when we get home and for me to get our house decorated for Christmas!)

We have had a good day of travel. We had blue skies till Arkansas and then the clouds started to gather in the skies till we had total cloud cover. We stopped at Braum's for lunch...another hamburger and chocolate malt for me and a hamburger and banana shake for Woody. Can't go through OK without that yummy Braum's stop!

Well, the good Lord willin' I'll be blogging from home tomorrow night.