More Omaha

Duane arrived just a few hours late for his flight from RDU.

He flew Frontier Airlines, which we had never used - inexpensive and it all worked out fine in the end. We're pretty laid back travelers.....

After a good breakfast at the hotel, we all hopped in Rafe's big club-cab pickup and headed out into the Nebraska country-side for a trip to the Strategic Air and Space Museum.

It was still very warm, but you got the idea that cool weather is on it's way soon.


Very nice museum - they obviously have a lot of "pull" with the NASA and military officials since they have lot's of cool items on display!


This building was built around this SR-71. It's huge! It's on pedestals - we are actually on the upper floor.


All the usual suspects out in the hangars - I snapped lots of photos, but I'll just include a few.


Haha - lots of cars also - a DeLorean - funny that we had seen one just a few weeks ago in Oriental. Haven't seen some before that in years!


They had some of the aircraft open from below so you could walk up into the "bomb" areas.


A nice B-25. The Asheboro museum used to have one of these so it's particularly recognizable to me (I'm not very knowledgeable about old military stuff.....)



Eaven wanted to ride the crazy gyro ride....he and Teresa had already ridden the enclosed "roller coaster simulator ride" which made T more than a little queasy.

No way was T going to ride this thing with him. Duane, on the other hand, was a good uncle and played along.



Crazy people!!!




Here's a car that Duane said Kevin would enjoy seeing - all the cars were in terrific shape.


This little jet is actually a golf cart! That would be fun going down our runway at home!


Being the Air AND Space museum, they also had a hangar with a lot of space items and info.

These are the actual "pod racers" that they used in the Star Wars production. They are cool but lots of the stuff that looks like wiring and buttons are really just glued-on junk when you look up close!


One of our shuttle van drivers told us we needed to go walk on the "bridge to no where". It's a pedestrian bridge between Nebraska and Iowa. One of these days, there will be something on the Iowa side - but right now it just leads to an open field. Really cool bridge though and the citizens seemed to be enjoying it.



Aren't we cute out in the wind?


Some silly dirt-bike riders playing around and showing off.



They even mark the state line.


We went out to eat at a place called Omaha Prime - the guys all had what looked like fabulous steaks, I had some really good grilled salmon. Teresa, of course, had a bunch of veggies!

On the way back to the hotel, we couldn't help a few silly rides down the slide again!