Tulsa, Oklahoma Unveiled: The Ultimate Family Adventure Guide for Endless Fun 2023

Hello Bloggineers, this is Tulsa, Oklahoma and we're going to show you the fun things you can do here. This is our 14th state, 14. Our first stop is Tulsa Botanic Garden. There's a scavenger hunt where you have to find all the animals and plants. First we're going to check out the Children's Discovery Garden. Let's go check out the Spring Giant. This is quite the aquatic monster. You can see a lobster there and a fish here. The caveman that you saw outside. And you can see how there's the leg tight. Is it tight or right? I forgot. There's the leg tight or right up there and then you can see the teeth. There's an echo. Echo. Wait no. There used to. Echo. I thought there was an echo from somewhere. Let's make some noise. Now we're going to paint on the art wall. This is Calhoun in Oklahoma. Over here is really cool because there are many layers of water that go jumping down into the, I think that's a lake. And then when we get to the top I will take a photo down. But first I want a photo here. So like I said earlier, I'm up here and you can see an entire view right here. On the scavenger hunt one of the items is downtown Tulsa. I was looking around the whole time and I was like where's downtown Tulsa? But now, yeah we can see three tall buildings peeking out from the tree line. This is the Cross Timbers Nature Trail. It is a 1.5 mile trail. And we're going to try to hike it in less than 30 minutes. Yeah. Alright. This is our first time exploring the wild side of Oklahoma. Let's see how flat this state truly is. Okay, we walked like 100 feet in but it seems muddy the whole way because it probably rained recently. So let's save ourselves 30 minutes and turn around. But at least we can say we've been in the forest. The sign there said I love tulips because this garden has so many tulips. Over there on the other side of the botanic garden they're doing construction. So when that's complete this garden will be even better. And that is the Tulsa Botanic Garden. My favorite part is this section because there are a bunch of tulips which I really like. You can take a lot of really good photos at this garden. Of all the botanic gardens I've been to, I think this area might be one of the best. Just because tulips are so pretty and with that fountain rolling through, it's amazing. And the children's garden was also cool since it had that sea monster structure. Now we're at the Philbrook Museum of Art. First we're going to check out a special exhibit, Rembrandt to Monet. This gallery has 50 pieces from famous European artists in 500 years of history. On this scavenger hunt, what job do you think the falcon might have? It's this falcon. A messenger. Delivering a message. Doesn't this guy look like Washington? It's Thomas Lawrence. Oh yeah he does. I guess everyone from that time just looks like Washington. We found the lady. It's a lot brighter in real life than in this picture. The second question is if you could have any pet, what would it be and why? So draw a picture of you with your pet. I wonder what I'll do. I've painted Monet paintings before and this one's by Monet. I know that because there's so many different little strokes of colors. In this one it looks like she's posing for a selfie. But they didn't have cameras back then. The Philbrook Museum is housed inside this beautiful mansion. There's so many ornate columns and tapestries. And also the glass over there, it's one of those stained glass. His brain is made of beans. And his right foot is a plunger. Uh oh, that does not look good. We happen to be at this museum during the Women's Living History event. So there will be people in chairs like this portraying artists that are on the plaques. She made all of her work using little dowel rods. And then she would just basically loop them together like that. And then she would form sculptures. So the lady said that at night, since she was a Buddhist, her way of meditation was just to keep coiling these wires around until it made pieces of artwork. And she got her artwork on the U.S. Postal Stamp. The thing is that you don't have to have fancy materials to make artwork. You can make artwork out of anything. I am here today as Nolisa Patrick. She was the first female Creature Creators special effects makeup artist at Universal Studios. Oh, I would love to break that wall. So it's definitely about being a female artist and overcoming barriers that women face, especially in the arts. But it's also about challenges we all face in our lives. And how do you break down those walls? Here's Rosie the Riveter. She inspired women during World War II. Because the men were off fighting in the war, women had to go in and support and work in the factories to make all the parts for the war. Now we're going down to the dungeon. Insert creepy music. This is Julia Butterfly Hill. She's an environmental activist and she hung up in a tree for two years just to save it. The artist here is Aretha Franklin and she's the Queen of Soul. And Soul is a combination of R&B, gospel, and jazz. The album that she won, or I would say sold the most in her entire catalog, was actually the Amazing Grace album, which is a gospel album. Oh, that one. So the song... Amazing Grace How sweet, how sweet the sound This is the most colorful cabin I've ever seen. Wow, there's so many different lights up there. All in different colors of glass. Oh my gosh. It's a fireplace made out of books. But what if the books catch on fire? Like the practical use of this, I don't know. But it's creative. The stone walls on both sides of this little canal make this remind me of somewhere in Europe. This doesn't look like what I expected of Oklahoma. And that is the Philbrook Museum of Art. My favorite part was interviewing all the different characters that were dressed up. I also enjoyed the Women's History event. But when you come here, they may or may not have it. So I'd say that just the entire museum in general was cool. Especially since it was built in a mansion-looking type of place. Also, the cabin with the stained glass windows and the chimney made out of books. That was my favorite room in this museum. There's a huge diversity of artworks. There's sculptures, there's those traditional Monet type of paintings. And there's also pottery and stuff from Egyptian times. This museum has everything. We're now going to check out the Bob Dylan Center. With this audio guide, you can tap the phone to this phone icon. And now you can listen to the audio guide. This is pretty cool. Alright, let's go. That's Bob Dylan over there. He's still alive. He's 81 years old. This Chimes of Freedom is a great song. The thing is 8 minutes. I don't think we have 8 minutes to sit here. So I'm just going to let it play in the background. And in Chimes of Freedom, the song that I'm listening to, that's one of Bob Dylan's protest anthems. This one says that in March of 2020, Bob Dylan released his first original material in 9 years. That's good music right there. Blowing in the wind. You could probably spend at least an hour here listening to every single one of his interviews and then also his songs. This is the Bob Dylan Center studio experience. Whoa. Wait. What am I doing? Oh! I can control if he's singing or not with dial 1. Wait, if I get rid of... Oh! So now it's just vocals. Oh wow. And then if I turn on everything except the vocals. So if I don't want drums, then I can turn this one on. You enter the numbers in there. Just a random number. There. Enter. And then you'll have a visual demonstration of the CD being swapped out. And you can hear the new one. And these pieces are by Bob Dylan and other artists as well. Music. Cowboy. Let's go upstairs. On this floor there's a lot of memorabilia from the Bob Dylan archive. And that is the Bob Dylan Center. My favorite part was of course listening to all the songs. I like how the audio tour wasn't just talking but since this is a museum about a musician a lot of the things you could scan were to his songs. And especially the control room where you can adjust the vocals and the instruments. That was amazing. I didn't really know anything about Bob Dylan before coming here but now that I've heard his songs I want to know more about him and maybe listen to it outside. Our next stop is the Woody Guthrie Center. First we're going to watch a 13 minute introduction film on Woody Guthrie. Now we're going to do the Dust Bowl VR experience. And there are other interactive exhibits here. This is a circular gallery dedicated to the song This Land Is Your Land. This is a facsimile which I think means replica of the handwritten lyrics of This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie's most popular song. Now this gallery is about how his musical talents often overshadowed his artistic abilities. His portrait of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Jesus Christ. Yeah there, he signed his name over there. Some of his more informal works which kind of looks like graffiti, especially that one. Is that person on a unicycle? Here's some of the art made by Woody. The audio direction says I have to draw what I see when I hear the words or a melody. Pick a song. Howdy do. Ready to draw? Yes. Little hand. Okay. Do I draw a little hand? How do I shake it up and down? Shake it up and down. Shake it up. Shake it down. This song is about shaking it up and down. Howdy do. Howdy do. Shaking it up and down. Howdy do. Howdy do. This is such a terrible drawing. And that is the Woody Guthrie Center. My favorite part was the VR headset because you can see how the Dust Bowl actually started and what the effects in the Dust Bowl were. I also like how you can hear music throughout the whole museum. So Woody Guthrie came before Bob Dylan, and Bob Dylan was inspired by Woody Guthrie. Now that we're in the Woody Guthrie Museum, the differences are that there's no audio tour, but there are still headphones at different stations. And you can listen to many different versions of This Land is Your Land. You can see his artwork. And the Dust Bowl VR experience was cool. It was the first time I got to see what the Dust Bowl could have looked like. We're at the center of the universe right now. And I think what happens is if you stand in the middle, you can hear what people say around you. Hello. Hello. Oh. That feels weird. Hello. Hello. It feels like I'm on stage. Ah! No, it doesn't. Yeah, it works better this way. It feels like a microphone. I'm standing in the center of the universe. Okay, so my voice is being echoed back, but only I can hear it. Hello? Hello? Echo. Echo. Echo. Yeah, I think you have to face where those buildings are. Okay, that was actually interesting. There was a guy just sitting there. I don't know if he was homeless or something, but he was just sitting there for so many minutes, not doing anything. So I thought he was trying to pick up on our conversations from around us and hear the people say like, oh, why won't he just move or something? So I thought he could listen to us. But actually, no. It's whoever's standing on that spot can hear their own voice being projected from those buildings or something. I don't know. Like a stage. But I don't know how. It just seemed like ordinary buildings. That's really cool. Now we're having ice cream at Big Dipper in Mother Road Market. That's good. I got the ultimate cookies and cream. It looks so good. First look test. Yeah, it's good. This is the ooey gooey butter cake, which is their most popular flavor. I told you it's ooey gooey. Alright, thank you. Now it's time to dig in. This is a single scoop cup of ooey gooey butter cake with a waffle chip. I got the ultimate cookies and cream and it's super good. You can taste all the cookies and Oreos in it. There are many flavors to choose from and they're all handmade. There's also pints that you can get to go. Our first stop is the Tosa Zoo. Go in there, fit the cookie mold, and say, I'm a chimp. I'm a chimpanzee. Look at the chimpanzee. It's up there. They're basically humans. Whoa. Do you think they can wave? Come on, wave. I like that chimp that's just lying in his hammock. I wouldn't mind living here though. This is my animal fact of the day. Chimps share 98% of DNA with humans and that's why they resemble us so much. This is a chimpanzee hand. Of course my hand is smaller. The foot, I can't compare. If I were to put my leg up, I can't let it stay there. I'm not flexible. The next section is wildlife check. This is the exhibit where we can see a human inside. Alright, it says life in the cold so hopefully when we go in it's warm. Oh, arctic fox. Arctic fox. Look at him. Aw, that's cute. I love arctic foxes. Look, it's a snowman. There's a chinchilla. It looks like a robotic mouse. This is life in the desert. There's some lizards. Oh, there. The desert iguana. Oh. Look at these fennec foxes. Hi, fennec fox. It's so cute. It was awake. See, the eyes are open. This one is a glow-in-the-dark scorpion. Heavy. It's heavy. I want a picture. Let's go into life in the forest. I'm really excited. I like the forest. Whoa, look at that. It's a raccoon. It's life in the water. And over there's the komodo. Komodo dragon. Of everywhere in the zoos so far, this has the best set design. It actually feels like we're in the forest, not Oklahoma. How are monkeys? These are in the Amazon rainforest. They go, oh, oh, oh. This is called playground behaving like animals and crouching like a jaguar. You hope I don't fall on you. That would be bad. It's a snow leopard cowboy. I'm going to make sure that the leopard doesn't spray me today like what happened ten years ago. Roar. He faced us and he went roar. Oh, my gosh. The tiger knows where to go for pictures. That's so funny. They probably trained it too, right? Oh, oh, time to go. There's no way that's a real tiger. He's going to go back there. There's no way that's a real tiger. He goes back. I feel like it's a robot. Yeah, you're right. Oh, oh, oh, let's go for another photo. Come on, come on. Let's go, let's go. And that is the Tulsa Zoo. My favorite part was seeing all the animals and I also like the track where you go to the desert, the forest, the water and the ice. My favorite animal was the tiger because it just keeps going back to the same spot over and over and over again. My two favorite parts of this zoo were the jungle that was all humid inside and also the tiger since there was the tiger bridge and that tiger that kept coming up to us to take photos. Our next stop is the Golden Driller. This statue was dedicated to the men of the petroleum industry and it was given to Tulsa during the International Petroleum Exposition in 1966. Our next stop is Buck Adams' Cosmic Curios on Route 66. This looks like a mix between Buzz Lightyear and Woody from Toy Story because it's an astronaut because of all his gear and the cowboy hat. This is a little souvenir shop along Route 66. Is it this one? Yes. Okay. Gonna get your stamp at Buck Adams on Route 66. Thank you. And that was Bucks on 66. My favorite part was the shop owner because she was very nice and enthusiastic. We just bought some postcards and t-shirts about Oklahoma. It's a pretty nice store in there with music. You can also buy local ice cream. That statue is fairly new even though it seems like it's been existing there since back in the day. Our next stop is Decapolis. Inside Decapolis is an art deco museum. It feels like a Harry Potter world in there because there's magical instrumental music playing. I'd rather spend some time there going through the Harry Potter pictures. But of course there's so many other things besides Harry Potter in there. We're now at the gathering place and behind us is the boathouse. We're gonna walk over and take a look. We heard that you can rent kayaks for completely free here. But unfortunately it's off season so they're not renting it right now. I wanna go to the park. Oh dang that's a huge drop off. We're gonna check out the Cabinet of Wonder. Oh, excuse me. There's just the most random assortment of items. That's why it's called the Cabinet of Wonder. Our next stop is Discovery Lab. We came 10 minutes before closing so brother's just running around like crazy trying to make the most of his time. Bambi's forest. Heavy strong. The bug's saying hello. My favorite part was the white tubes that you get to slide down at the end because I can easily do that like 10 times and it would be perfectly fun. Even though we only had a few minutes it was pretty cool in the time that we had and we just run the whole thing. So I think we saw at least half of it but we only spent like a minute on each. We're joined by the boys from Family Travel Go and since we had a short time at the Discovery Lab they're gonna show you a more in depth look of the place. at the River Giants playground. They're pretty fast. I just walked like here and then they were already up there. Careful! How many pounds can it withstand? Our final stop is the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. These stained glass windows were from Houston, Texas and one interesting thing I learned is that whenever they show someone with their eyes closed on stained glass that means they're blind. This is the Humans of Israel gallery. Look what we're on first place. The windows are covered right? So maybe it was the secret annex. This is the Torah and when they were making it they wouldn't use their hands because then if they smeared the paper they'd have to redo the whole thing. The yod is the tool that they use to touch the paper. The menorah over there has seven candles that represent the seven days of creation. This is the Shabbat and it's where Jewish people would get married. It symbolizes the house of God. This section is on the outfits from Jewish people in different countries. This one's Morocco. Oh wow! Whoa! This is really cool because there are items in disguise like that ship turns into a menorah and if people went into their house they wouldn't know these are Jewish items. It helps in times when Jewish people were persecuted. This is the Jews rock exhibit and it was painted by Jews that were into rock and roll. We went to the Bob Dylan Museum this week. We're now in the Holocaust exhibit and these are symbols of hate. The KKK uniform, the SS uniform that was used by the Nazis. This shows that haters can be in any ordinary clothing. These are the German federal election results through the years. So as you can see in 1928 the Nazi party was just 2% and they quickly became 99%. That's clever to not glorify the Nazi memorabilia. It's like you're looking down at a coffin. Now it's like we're in the concentration camp looking out to Jewish life that was in the past. These stones represent the 1.5 million children that should have lived longer but were murdered during the Holocaust. And that is the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. My favorite part was seeing all the masks. Everything there and it was just the masks. Okay, well that's cool. Yeah, I like the masks. I think the highlight of that museum is the Holocaust exhibit. Just because you can see stuff that the Nazis had and the Jewish people had during World War II. And there was a lot of important history in that exhibit. See you in the next video. Bye!