Day 3 continued... The Golden Driller

 After leaving the whale we went about 20 minutes to see the Golden driller. This is in Tulsa, OK.  It is not something I would recommend going out of your way to see, but if its there, go see it. We only spent about 5 minutes here but it was interesting to see. Eden started to go up to it but came running back to me because she was convinced it was going to fall over on her. 

Here is the history of the driller. He is called the "Tallest man in America"

In a long-ago and more bountiful time, Tulsa, Oklahoma, sat atop the world's largest known pool of oil. Drilling derricks were everywhere -- even on the lawn of the state capitol -- and the city called itself "Oil Capital of the World."To celebrate this good fortune, a giant roustabout was built on the Tulsa Fairgrounds in 1953. Dubbed "The Golden Driller," he resembled an oversized brass statuette, with a big grin on his face, his tin hat tipped back in a rakish skew, and his gloved right hand raised in a kind of limp-wristed OK sign. The statue proved so popular that it returned permanently to the Fairgrounds in 1966 -- only in a new version that was very different from the original: ballet-slender, muscles ripped under skin-tight clothing, and a face that was a chiseled mask of Teutonic invincibility. Still, it was big and it was gold (well, mustard-yellow), and Tulsa embraced it as its own. One of the tallest statues in America, the Golden Driller has survived tornadoes and turbulent oil markets.