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Omaha, NEAug 21, 2007
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At Scheels sporting goods store (can you tell we're in Nebraska?)
Madison and Tara on the Scheels ferris wheel
Sign at the Bohemian Cafe
| The day started with a bike ride - finally some exercise (plus we were getting behind on our daily goal). Dave decided to join us on one of Todd's bikes. We headed to the Pappio Trail which went from our friends house to a lake. The humidity was unbearable - when will our bodies adjust?!! And this was at 8 am in the morning. Unfortunately, the bike that Dave was using didn't cooperate. The tires and brakes were rubbing and it sounded like a duck was following us. The good news was that we didn't have to announce our presence to anyone as we came up on them. Dave eventually turned around because the effort to pedal just wasn't worth it. We continued on, finally found the lake after a few wrong turns, and finished their first 23 mile bike ride of the trip. After the bike ride we headed to Cheeseburger in Paradise for lunch with the kids (after their first day at school). Although this is a chain restaurant, we figured we were okay since this was not a chain that we had in Colorado. The food was excellent - especially the burger and the string onion rings. We headed to Scheels sporting goods store after that so the kids could ride the indoor ferris wheel. We stumbled our way through all of the Husker stuff (yuk) and found a bike rack that we could mount on the top of our car roof. That should fix our bike rack problem and it gave the boys something to bond over while installing that afternoon. Dinner was at a restaurant that we had read about in our Road Food book - the Bohemian Cafe. Nebraska has a Czech influence and this restaurant has been in Omaha since 1924. Dinner was jaeger schnitzel, dumplings (still not sure what these were), veggies and rye bread. It was a unique dinner for sure. Once done with dinner, we headed out on a walk around downtown Omaha. We learned that Con Agra is based there (as is Mutual of Omaha and some 5 or 6 other Fortune 500 companies), in the 1950s Omaha was the largest stockyard in the country, and its the birthplace of Gerald Ford, Marlon Brando and Larry the Cable Guy (who makes $35 million a year - unbelievable!). As we took our walk, Terry commented that when she was a kid she used to bring wax paper downtown for the slide. At that exact moment, a bunch of people walked by with a roll of wax paper. Not really comprehending what Terry had meant by the wax paper and the slide, we followed the people to two silver slides. The wax paper made those slides a LOT of fun. We watched, but declined to partake of the wax paper. But going down without the paper, it was easy to understand why you needed it. |
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