Omaha Day #2

This morning started out with jumping on the shuttle bus and going to The Diner (yes that is the name of the place, The Diner).

So cost effective! And the food is quite good. And there was good company.

Went to a seminar, which was quite enlightening. Another group of us went to lunch at Spaghetti Works, down the street from Zio last night.

I am still stuffed a couple hours later. Company was good as well but no pictures :(

I saw a sign about a quilt being auctioned off with the proceeds going to Spring Vale Academy. I just volunteered my services to make a knitted blanket for 2 years from now. One of my first knitting books was a book on afghans and I have never made anything in it. This seems like it would be a worthy cause to crack open the book. Also, this a worthwhile charity that I've known about since I was a child. I this goes well, maybe I'll make afghans more often for them. I can't wait to go flipping through the book when I get home and start the pre-planning.

I got to get a hug from my little sister. I swear she's hit a growth spurt since I saw her last on Saturday. She's turning 5 in September.

At some point or another, I will track down each and everyone of my siblings and get a picture with them. Come-on, we're all here.

We later went shopping at Oakview Mall. Nice place, definitely cheaper than in Canada and open tomorrow on the 4th of July.  Suffice it to say, we'll be back tomorrow.

I am now going to eat some dinner and be off for the night!

Omaha Day #1

I do have wifi! Yay for the Hilton!

I am loving it here. I haven't even been here a full 12 hours but it is beautiful.

We passed a Trucking Lot, which usually doesn't sound interesting to me, but my brother loved it being the car nut that he is. They had some funny stuff and a native hand painted vases. I really wanted to leave with a specific vase but the funds are not there to my woe.

Beautiful, isn't it?

We stopped at Wendy's to eat and were shocked by the size medium drink. It would be an extra large drink in Canada.

My brother and Cooper the bear were happy to arrive.

We went to an evening church service, caught up with some people and declared that we were so hungry that we had to get something to eat. The shuttle bus for the hotel is 24hrs a day.  The area is quaint and beautiful. We went to a pizza place on Howard called "Zio". It was soooo good. We've already made plans to back again.

I am now off to bed.