Weekend Update

It was a good weekend.  We visited with our dear friends who came up from Dallas, watched two great movies (more on these later), went the OSUOKC farmer's market, and got the chance to do one of my favorite things:  drive to a small Oklahoma town to eat at a charming hidden gem of a restaurant. This is becoming a hobby of ours. So Saturday night we visited Lucille's in Mulhall, OK. Mike was the one who actually read about this place and suggested we take the drive to eat there.  Mulhall is one of those towns where you have to take a state highway (not the interstate) to get there which always makes for a more interesting drive.  We were pleasantly surprised by Lucille's.  Part of the restaurant was the town's original bank.  It's now saloon/bar area.  The main eating area was added on to the back and was very clean.  The food was country cooking at its best:  chicken fried steak, fried catfish, okra, buttery soft yeast rolls, and homemade pies. Yum.  After we all stuffed ourselves, we went outside just as the sun was beginning to set.  We let the girls run and play in the field next to Lucille's and thought just for a few minutes Could we live in a small town like this?  It's a question we toss around every now and then.  But soon enough we were all back in the car, the big sky turning indigo, winding south on highway 77 toward home.