TO THE OLD GERMANY RESTAURANT - CHOCTAW, OK

October 1 – 2, 2010

Our next trip was to Midwest City, OK (a suburb of Oklahoma City) to dine at the Old Germany Restaurant and to once again have one of their outstanding German dinners.

The nearest place to stay with the coach is at the Elk’s Lodge in Midwest City so we headed there and arrived on a beautiful sunny day to be the only coach in their campground. No sooner were we hooked up when there came a horrendous roar and a huge multi-engine AWACS aircraft came directly overhead on short final to land at the adjacent Tinker Air Force Base. How we didn’t notice RRRROOOOAAAARRRR!!!! the Air Base before, I have no idea but it was a training day and they were doing touch and go landings every few minutes,

RRRROOOOAAAARRRR!!!!

RRRROOOOAAAARRRR!!!! oh great! The Elks folks seemed to think that they would be finished by about 5:00 pm and that was right, thank goodness! Not only that, but they also warned us that the next day, Saturday, the Oklahoma University Sooners were playing the University of Texas Longhorns and traffic was going to be a huge logjam. “It’s going to take HOURS and HOURS, they said, so get an early start and you MIGHT miss some of it.” Oh-kay!



The Old Germany Restaurant



So we headed out to the restaurant, found a nice booth and ordered our favorite German dishes, Jaegerschnitzle with spaetzle and red cabbage, then to top it off we shared a TALL glass of Paulaner Optimator beer. Mmm-mmm good!!! Of course, schnitzel is usually breaded veal but many restaurants are using pork instead, that’s right it’s cheaper, but still good.

This is the third time we’ve been to the restaurant and it was just as good as the previous two times.

So there really wasn’t much else for us to do here in Oklahoma and after a good night’s sleep, we were off to our next destination of the Thousand Trails Lake Texoma Preserve just over the border into Texas. To our surprise, traffic was light and we didn’t experience even the slightest slow-down on I-35South. Come to find out, the football game was being played in Dallas, so if you weren’t already down there, it was going to be too late to start driving now!

See you in Texas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bye!