Omaha!

For Labor Day weekend Kathy and I made a quick trip out to visit Nicole in Omaha. Yes, you read that right, Omaha, Nebraska. Nicole has lived there for over a year and I haven't been to see her new life there.

I got there on Friday afternoon at it was a "cool" 90 degrees with more humidity than I would even care to know about. We promptly went golfing as we had previously planned...LOL! Nicole informed me that it was much cooler than it had been. I tried to believe her as I wiped the sweat from every pour on my body. It was fun to golf though. I really enjoyed it and it felt like a real workout since I sweat so much :)


After a much needed shower we headed to a restaurant called "Jams." It looked like an 80's hair salon on the outside, but I had what I would have to say is the BEST salad I've ever eaten. It was called a "bread" salad and it was delicious. While we were at Jams an awesome storm blew in. While this delayed Kathy's flight by an hour we were able to watch a great thunder and lightening storm. It was super cool.

The next day we got up and went to the Farmer's market. No pictures of that yet as shower's had not been taken. It had cooled off significantly and was actually raining a bit. We then headed to some hole in the wall hamburger joint that we had seen on TV. It was awesome to say the least, even though they didn't give us plates! Seriously so good and they had TV's where all the football games were being played.
After lunch we headed back to Nicole's penthouse.....yep she is fancy like that to shower and watch the BYU/Ole Miss game. After waiting and waiting and waiting for BYU to do something we left to go shopping and to dinner. Of course BYU came back and won in the 4th quarter 14-13. It's okay......thanks to technology I watched the game on the iPad later that night. Dinner and shopping was excellent.

On Sunday we headed out to visit Winter Quarters before going to church with Nicole. It was interesting to walk around the grounds and see the temple and visitors center.

Are these "Mitchell's" some of my relatives? I need to be better at family history to find out.


After church we just hung out and talked at Nicole's and then went on a walk. On our walk there was a Buddhist wedding going on in the park. We may have stayed too long watching, but we did get this one cute picture of all 3 of us :)
Monday was a beautiful day. We went downtown to get pedicures and then there was a parade going on that we watched, ate lunch, met Chef Boyardee and then it was time to head back to Utah.

We had a great weekend and it was interesting to see Nicole's life. That being said I think she is WAY braver than I am to live in Omaha as a single person. I'll just leave it at that!