We wanted to take the kids on a little trip, so while we were at Jamie and Adam's House we went to the Omaha Zoo, and the Iowa State Fair.
If you have not ever been to the Omaha Zoo, I highly suggest that you go. It was very nice and tons to see. We got there at 10:00 and stayed until 5:00. We only didn't go into one exhibit. We could have spent a lot more time there though, we rushed through a few exhibits because it was getting close to closing time.
They have this huge dome and on the main level it is a desert, then underground is the Kingdom of the night where they have a swamp, and a cave. The swamp is totally dark and you are walking on a little bridge with alligators swimming around in the water below, talk about freaky. I am looking at the alligator and I can't see where I am walking and I step on something strange, I jumped quite high. It was just the crack in the bridge but it gave me quite a fright. There is also a huge building that has a jungle inside with the different jungle environments from around the world. At one point we were walking through a cave and there were actual bats in there, that will make you jump when you don't realize they are so close to you.
All throughout the zoo you are so close to the animals. We were about 6 feet from the elephants. They also have a huge building with lots of Gorillas, that was a lot of fun to go through there.
We also went to the Iowa State Fair. The kids really enjoyed this exhibit called Little Hands on the Farm. They pretended to work on a farm, they planted a seed prentended to harvest it, picked an apple from the orchard, got soybeans that they turned into soy diesel. They pretended to fill up these little tractors and got to ride them around. Then they went through the sheep barn, and got some wool. Then at the dairly barn they pretended to feed the cow the corn they had, then milked the cow and collected a milk carton. Then they went to the Farmer's market turned in all their produce and got a fake dollar and went to the market where they got to actually buy a treat with their fake dollar. They got to choose from stuff like oj, twinkies, popsicles, a loaf of bread, etc.. I thought it was pretty neat myself.
Overall it was a nice little vacation.
