Tuesday 8AM MST: Left SLC UT for Lowell, Indiana. Loaded up the Suburban with food, kids, and lots of anticipation! Day 1 was pretty uneventful; drove through the beautiful state of Wyoming (yes, you did detect a small amount of sarcasm) and halfway through Nebraska. Stayed the night in Kearney. Tomorrow we will tour the somewhat famous "Archway"; it is a museum that spans Interstate 80. We toured it back in 2000 shortly after it opened. It is fun; it is themed after the progress of America, from the pioneers crossing the plains to the construction of the Interstate highway system instituted by Pres. Eisenhower.
Long drive today; Michelle said that being trapped in the car with the kids for a week will be good for me. Teach me more patience, I suppose. I have been working on humility this month, so I suppose that patience will help with that.
Wednesday 11:33PM CST: Had a fun day today. The morning started off with a tour of the Archway (see above). It was fun, and it didn't take too long. It was the same as it was 8 years ago, but fun again nonetheless. We got back on the road and drove to Omaha, where we stopped at the Strategic Air Museum. We spent a couple hours there and had a really fun time! They had an honest to goodness flight simulator that we all rode twice (Michelle had an upset stomach all the way to Des Moines; I told her not to let Emilie fly the thing!). It was awesome! We all walked around the flight hangars and checked out the various airplanes. Maddie & I spent a good part of the visit in a real, live B-52 cockpit pretending to fly over France; more good times! There must have been over 200 buttons and switches in the cockpit.
Kearney Museum
Strategic Air Museum
Maddie not excited about getting hair done!
SR-71 Blackbird
B-52 Bomber Cockpit
B-52 Bomber CockpitAfter finishing up at the SAC museum, we drove straight through to Nauvoo and checked into our hotel; before that, we did a quick drive-by of the temple; it is absolutely magnificent! I can't wait to go in tomorrow. I forgot my Sunday clothes and ended up stopping at Walmart to get some appropriate clothing for the temple. I am going to go for run through downtown 1st thing in the morning and soak it all in.
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