Omaha Trip Part 2

During our trip to Omaha this past weekend along with our trip to the zoo we checked out the Children's Museum and the Old Market district.

The Children's Museum was really cool. There was a little playhouse, a market, a fire station/truck, an art room and a science room.


There was this neat foam puzzle for toddlers.

Madeline checking out at the market.

Grandma helped Madeline build a huge lego tower.

And she loved the Light Piano. She wouldn't even let me play!

This pic was taken in a candy store in the Old Market area....

This cool antique popcorn truck was in it too.

And an old fashioned soda fountain.

Madeline and I rocking our cool shades!

This was one of our favorite shops in the Old Market.

Tons of neat stuff in here...

I really loved these frogs playing insturments but the hubby would have killed me if I brought them home...only $150 each!!! Yikes!

I loved the stars too!

Madeline checking out the stuff outside while eating her sucker.

Mom picked out a couple dragonflies for her garden.

We even found a Jelly Belly bus! They were letting people test some new Jelly Belly flavors.

Our favorite restaurant from our trip was Spaghetti Works.

Here we are eating our dinner. It was such a kid friendly place. And not too expensive either but great food (and lots of it!).

Outside they had an old phone booth. I felt like I was in a Beatles video....

We saw some really interesting cars too...this one even had incense burning on it...

A close-up of the front.

We are so glad we took our trip to Omaha. What a neat town to visit! We're hoping to get back there again some day!

Labor Day Weekend Trip to Omaha Zoo

Over Labor Day weekend this year my mom, Aunt Roxie, Madeline, and I took a short trip to Omaha to visit the zoo. We've been meaning to get there for a couple years now - it was totally worth the trip. Omaha is a gem of a town. We spent a full 6 hours at the zoo on Saturday, went to the Omaha Children's Museum and spent some time in the Old Market district where they have restaurants, stores, etc.

Here are a few pics from the zoo portion of our trip...

They had several really cool birds just hanging out in the open.

Lots of cool statues to climb on.

Cool giraffe.

We took the sky tram ride and Madeline loved it!

Sky tram ride.

Aunt Roxie and Grandma Sharon.

Lemur.

Madeline checking to see which match her hands...little monkey...

Checking out a gorilla skeleton.

Tiger.

Awesome polar bear.

We even took a little train ride.

Me, Maddie, and Roxie.

We had a fun time, it was a neat zoo. We will definitely make that trip again someday!

Farmstead and Friends

Our friends Allison and Jenna came to town for the weekend so today we met up at Deanna Rose Farmstead to play and check out the animals.

Madeline likes feeding the animals. We fed bottled milk to the baby goats first then headed over to check out the ducks.


Quack quack!

I loved this pic of Jenna and Madeline looking like they were really playing checkers in the General Store.

Anyone remember Holly Hobby???

Maddie and Jenna having lollypops.

Riding the horsey...

and playing in the sand.

We checked out the turtles.

And fed the fish.

Madeline loves the flowers.

And she loved seeing her friend Jenna.

It's always a pleasure!