We left Kansas heading for Nebraska and funny enough we had to drive through Iowa to get to Omaha. We spent one night in Sioux City, Iowa. (another crazy ass storm night to try and sleep through) My dad was telling me that Iowa is where my grandfather Floyd was originally from. When we were driving through it totally made sense, everything was named Floyd, Floyd river, Floyd this, Floyd that. It was really funny.
Once we got to Omaha we went and checked out their zoo. We read that Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo was a strong rival to the San Diego Zoo, so we were pretty excited to check it out. My cousin Alicia had just recently moved back to San Diego from Nebraska so I picked her brain about what to check out (she is definitely glad to be back in California... I cannot imagine why). When we reached the street that led to the zoo we realized that it was literally right across the street from the stadium that holds the men's college world series. Funny enough it had just started that same week that we were there. We were already thinking about maybe trying to catch a game after we checked out the zoo.
The zoo was pretty amazing (I mean I cannot even remember the last time I went to a zoo). We saw all sorts of your normal zoo animals, zebras, elephants, rhinos, monkeys, lions, and tigers, and bears oh my! I have to say seeing the Rhinos was pretty awesome, they are so big and just really interesting to me. We got to see some giraffes and a cheetah pretty close up! When we went through the tiger, lion, and bear section of the park it seemed to be nap time, because literally everyone of the animals was sleeping. They were all so beautiful. The zoo also had this new insect exhibit where you got to walk through a dome full of butterflies. It was crazy that we got to walk through with them all flying around. Well then we went through the other section of the insect exhibit and this was full of spiders, and other bugs. As most of you know, I am very very afraid of spiders so I was a little apprehensive to walk through this part. But it was okay at first because the bugs were in their little glass houses and could not jump out and get me. But as we were walking I saw this sign that said "check out our friends hanging from their natural webs above you, but don't worry they do not leave their webs". I read this and was like "WTF?!?!?!?" I look up and this gentlemen next to me says "oh look at that one right above your head". At this moment I was starting to have a panic attack, so I booked it out of there and waited for Joe on the other side of the door. Seriously not my thing! I could not believe that they would just let these spiders kick it out in the open!!! After my mini panic attack we went and checked out their mini aquarium within the zoo. It was really cool, they had sharks, turtles, and even some penguins! Once we had walked all around the park and had something to eat, we went and saw an imax movie they had playing. It was "Under the Sea" and was narrated by Jim Carrey, it was awesome, it was in 3D!
After the zoo we changed out clothes and bought some baseball tickets. We got to see Virginia vs. Arkansas. We were so lucky it was a very eventful game. We had seats right behind 1st base, anyone who as ever been to a baseball game, no balls are ever usually hit behind first base, but it happened that night, more than once! The game went 12 innings! It was very exciting, we were really happy we took the chance to catch it. After the game we decided to get some hours on the road out of the way and so we headed into South Dakota!
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