OKC, OK

So, I have been here in OKC since Monday evening. But it has been for work, not raw class. Our friends at the Cowboy Museum asked us to make and install various mannequins for their Native American gallery. That meant lunch and dinner in OKC every day. Mmmm. And we have been partaking of all the good food OKC has to offer. Every meal has been a down-the-middle split complimented by our own salad each. But boy, even doing that, it is a lot of dense food. The land of steak, after all.

Tonight, with our project complete, we made our way to a wonderful out-of-the-way Mexican restaurant that gives you more food for free than the (copious) amount that they put on the plate you actually ordered. Groan. But after our Chile Relleno (yes, split in half), we went over to check out 105 Degrees and treated ourselves to two desserts-to-go (hoping in an hour or so to have room for it).  We have just had a sampling – of course we couldn’t finish the whole of it. And they were fresh and delicious beyond compare. Intense berry and smooth, cool coconut cream exploding on the togue. Devin, who has been giving me a bit of razz about the Raw, was impressed. And he was impressed with the restaurant when we went ’round. And I showed him a clip of soon-to-be-teacher Russell James. Now, he says, he feels better about leaving me. And I am now able to turn my head to this upcoming adventure and I am excited too. Dev and I have had many talks that bring in London (we both go *sigh*). I just realized I am in for an intense month of Russell’s English accent – a life raft in the warm sea of slow southwestern drawl.