Day 7- Still in Omaha, needed a break; July 7, 2013

To see our friends, the Pope family, we had to postpone a day of travel. This wasn’t much of an inconvenience since we are tired of being in the car already.

The last week of our trip is going to be a lot of driving so we are taking advantage of any walking opportunities. Annie advised seeing the zoo. I checked it out and it’s ranked #1 Largest zoo in the world by touropia and it’s ranked #1 US zoo from trip advisor reviews. Not what I expected to find in Nebraska.

I picked up a $99 picnic lunch (I thought I was going to save money-not!) and we set off to conquer the zoo.

The tickets were only $14 so our first impression was that possibly we were not at the #1 rated zoo and had erroneously followed the GPS to some impostor zoo. Well, first impressions aren't always correct. The zoo was HUGE and fabulous and had some really, really tall hills.

Kasen liked the monkeys the best. He must feel some kinship to them-he could climb before he could walk.

 

 

Haley and Kasen by the statue gorillas

Yany was resting by the ape enclosure and the gorilla put his rump by Yany's head-yeah, we laughed

 Alyse can nap anywhere

 The penquins were super fast swimmers-their habitat was cool, too

 Smiling on the train (mostly because we werent' walking)

 Still looking for Stella

We got impatient waiting for the elevator so we hiked up 3 stories with the strollers.

 

After 6 hours of hiking around the hot zoo we were a little tired and cranky. So we found a Village Inn (suggestion of brother Kerry) and ended the day with some surprisingly good food and fantastic coconut cream pie and tres leche chocolate pie. Our moods improved dramatically. I hope they have Village Inn in Washington. If you are ever in Omaha, NE, try the zoo and the pie at Village Inn-both are worth the effort.

 

DeeAnn-Military Lifer Wife