Vacation

OMAHA NEBRASKA

Last weekend we went to Omaha to bring my youngest daughter home. She spent her summer vacation visiting my sister there. We made the trip into a little family vacation and took the opportunity to do some fun things with our kids in Omaha and along the road home. This picture is taken along the river front in Omaha, that is the Missouri river in the background.

The next few pictures were taken at the Henry Doorly Zoo. We had a lot of fun there especially because we went with my sisters family including her 3 year old daughter and a friends 1 year old. I think my "big" kids had as much fun with the little girls as they did looking at the animals.



This is the Archway museum which is near Kearney Nebraska. It is a history of travel and it appropriately reaches right over I-80 . It begins with the gold rush and the Mormon pioneers and then moves on to the pony express, building the transcontinental railroad, then the construction of the nations interstate system and all of the things that came with it including roadside diners and drive-in movies.

It isn't your typical museum. You wear headphones and as you walk through you hear sounds that make you feel like you are really back in time. Everything in the museum is life sized from replicas of covered wagons and a 49ers camp to a cabin with a screen behind it so that you can watch a Pony express exchange take place through the open doorway and a car with tail fins parked under a movie screen with clips from old movies being shown.

The museum tour ends in this 1950's era diner that has windows that overlook I-80 so you can watch the traffic go by below you. It is definitely worth the stop if you are traveling that way!


We made a couple of short stops to stretch our legs and see an original Pony Express station in Gothenburg, a museum about sod houses, and even the Lincoln memorial near Laramie Wyoming. This buffalo was a novelty we found that is is made entirely of barbed wire.