Woke up this morning super early (but totally worth it) to go to the Omaha zoo! Diane gave us a really great tour beforehand around Omaha, showing us fancy rich houses and castles and Boy Town (neat place!). I don’t think Dave got as much out of the tour as I did (he slept 99% of it), so I will fill him in later and show him the pictures I took!
We saw so much at the zoo like lions, tigers, bears, gorillas, tons of monkeys, a parrot (who laughed at you...will post the video of it), the snakes and bugs (didn’t look at these exhibits)...okay you get the point. At one point, we went into this exhibit and they were showing off penguins! They did an info chat about them, and at the end we got to pet them! They felt really weird in a cool way.
After the zoo, Diane took us on more of a tour of the city part of Omaha. I was so wiped, but I couldn’t stop going because it was just too exciting. We got dinner downtown and went back to pass out before our trip this morning.
PS- The lightning bugs in Omaha are crazy! There are millions...it was cool...it made me think of that lightning bug song.
Love, Alyson
Today (Sunday) we got a chance to tour Omaha and check out their zoo! During the night, Alyson must have woken me up on 4 separate occasions because there were flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder in the distance! Every time I got pumped to get up and check them out but always fell back asleep before I made it upstairs. Behind Diane’s house (the lady we are staying with) is a big field and you can see for many miles to the west (which would have been perfect to spot the incoming storms. Of course, no tornadoes :-(, though there are sirens that rotate when a tornado does come into the area.
The zoo was AWESOME, it was huge, I think my favorite part was the desert with the snakes and cacti and scorpions. Alyson hated the snakes, and especially hated that when she viewed all the pictures we took there was no lack of snake close ups. The rain in the overnight/morning led into a warm sunny day, the temperatures were near 90 and thank god a lot of the exhibits were inside. We did a lot of walking, which was a nice change from sitting in a car all day, but certainly exhausted us right out.
The remainder of our day consisted of a walk around the downtown, there was a really cool group of bronze statues that depict a whole story (you’d have to see or read about, its a long story, just visit Diane and she’ll tell you) as well as a delicious beer sampler platter with dinner at Upstream. By that time we were REALLY exhausted, and although I wasn’t falling asleep in the car ride like I was during the morning tour, I wasn’t far off. I knew we had a long drive ahead of us, and we were hoping to get up early.
-Dave
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