Tuesday morning, we got up way too early
and flew to Nebraska...
which leaves everyone with the question
"So what's in Omaha????"
Well, there's the Qwest Center
(which is this big conference center
that hosted the AABP Annual Meeting.)
It's got a lot of huge,
funky, bronze statues out front of jugglers and...
mimes.)
Omaha's also got a lot of malls
(with some pretty strange-looking manequins.)
It also has the Durham Museum
which is housed in the old Union Pacific Railroad Station...
and has cool sculptures that talk (and adoring girls),
neat Indian exhibits ,
and, of course, lots of old traincars.
Downtown Omaha has oodles of beautiful
sculptures depicting bisons, geese, wildlife,
and...
the rigors of pioneer life.
Hee, oxen!
(Or is that "gee"?????)
Oh my, we're in trouble!
In northern Omaha (or Florence),
there's the Mormon Trail Center...
better known as "Winter Quarters"...
with a great LDS museum that
houses a replica cabin...
that sleeps two (or more) families!
(Wake up N8 and scoot over!)
You can dress-up as pioneers
to reenact the journey.
'Just across the street is an old cemetary.
(This area once housed about 4,000 Mormon
pioneers. About 600 died during this time due to
sickness, fatique, and malnourishment--over
half were children.)
The Winter Quarters Temple is on the
same grounds.
same grounds.
there's a Mormon Street, ...
you'll be in Council Bluffs, Iowa...
where you'll find a replica of the
Kanesville Tabernacle...
that was built in less than
three weeks and...
was where Brigham Young was sustained as the second
president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints!
What else is in Omaha?Well, there's a really neat zoo--
rain forest and desert exhibits that you hike through,...
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