Owlfury

Recently we went on a trip to surprise my Gramma for her birthday. My Gramma lives in Nebraska and is about a 9 hour trip. We took all four of the kittens and Jackson. Jynxy, Belinda, Seigfried, and Antoinette stayed home. Lucky for them. I don't think we could have handled anymore animals on the trip. On the way we made about two or three stops. One of th

e stops was at the Iowa 80 truck stop, wupposedly the world's biggest truck stop. There we got some ice cream and had a 'potty' break. Then we went on our merry way to Nebraska we stopped womewhere else and Jackson left a few presents that didn't get wrapped. When we got to Lincoln Nebraska we stood on my Gramma's back door step and tried to sing Happy Birthday really loud. T

urns out she thought she was hearing things and didn't realize we were out there, so my mom called and asked where she was and told her we were freezing on her doorstep. Well she was surprised. We let the kittens out for awhile and they had fun. My Gramma has a little Nativity scen

e set up with seperate camels and a small Christmas tree. Well the kittens knocked over the tree and the camels and they seemed to like chewing on the camels.

The next I got up took a shower, of course, and then took Jackson out to do his business. Lincoln got a lot of snow and it turned out it was good packing snow, so I

decided to make a snow man. With two balls because I didn't have the patience or the strength to make one with three, plus it was cold. The only materials I had were snow and twigs and I had no gloves. Plus my snow man has a big dent in the back of his head where a bunch of snow fell off when I put his head on his body, other than that he looks pretty good.

Later on that day (Wednesday) we went to Valentino's, a Italian Buffet that is pretty good. My family said they didn't like the pizza but I think that is one of there best things, especially the chesseburger and the hamburger ones, cheese is good to. We stuffed ourselves to the brim there and went home to sleep it off, well most of us did. My mom, my Gramma and I went to a hu

bcap store to buy a new hubcap to replace the one that had supposedly been stolen off of our car. It's a pretty rare hubcap and we couldn't get at home. The place we went to has hubcaps everywhere! I am not joking. There's a whole warehouse full of them and there are even more outside and in another warehouse. If you ever need a hubcap you should go there. It's called Gene's Hubcaps or something like that. The name started with a G anyway. After that we went to an icecream place and got ice cream for dinner. This was after we had digested enough to eat more stuff of course.

Thurs. was the interesting day. On Thursday, Alex, Gretchen, my dad, my brother a

nd I went to the Nebraska History Museum. We went in a car too. Five people, four of them relatively large stuffed into a five seated car is not a good idea, especially if you are one of the ones in the back. The Museum was fairly interesting. I am not a huge fan of museums and this one started out pretty boring. Pretty much the whole first floor was just phtographs and paintings. If you know

me well you know that I hate going to Art Museums. The second floor was much more interesting. It was about the early people of Nebraska (Native Americans) and how and when Nebraska became a state, the Native Americans were more interesting than the last part.

There were displays of Arrowheads and a movie showing how they were made. I found that this Museum didn't tell a lot about the artifacts they had they just tolf you what it was and sometimes what it was used for. I thought it would be more

interesting if they had more facts. A cool thing they had was almost an intire bison skeleton ( it was missing the tail bones and I think part of the pelvis). To me it looked pretty real and it was cool. I like to study bones and stuff like that. Another interesting thing they had was a horse skull, it had a very big hole in the top and to my knowledge it shouldn't have it there.

There were interesting head dresses most of them were small but there was one that was almost as tall if not taller than me. There were a lot of wicked looking weapons that looked like it would not be fun to be on the reciev

ing end of them. One thing I did learn from this museuam was that there were at least two tribes that went from a settled society, you know houses, crops all that jazz, to a hunter-gatherer society. I thought that was cool as well as interesting. I once read an article in the National Geographic about a modern hunter-gatherer society called the Hadza. Many say, and I think I agree, that agriculture was the worst thing that could've happened to the human race.

On the third floor of the museum was all about WWII. That had a lot of artifacts in it. Something I learned

there was that they used the horses the C

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9 unit. I thought that was a waste. The k-9 unit had a lot of German Shepherds in it. German shepherds are my favorite dog. They're pretty much good for everything and they are gorgeous and smart. Also there were dressess that women wore and they were incredibly small! They were mounted on a stand that was about half a foot tall and I

was still much taller than it. That surprised me.

Later on

we went to a restaurant called Stauffer's. Gramma's favorite restaurant. It's really good. I got steak and it had to be one of the best steaks I have ever had. After that we went right over to the Capitol building. This building is a real beauty. Believe me I usually don't think buildings are pretty. We were originally going to take a tour of it but the last tour went at 4pm and we got there at 4:30pm so we couldn't go on it. Instead we wandered around ourselves. On one floor the floor is made up of masaics of Greek-godish art and the walls have murals on them. On the 14th floor there are also murals and sometimes you can go outside and look across

the city, which is cool.

After some mushy good byes and be safes we left without Erin who was heading out west to BYUI. The return trip was really cold and Jackson kept getting mad at the kittens who kept grabbing him. We stopped again at the Iowa80 and had more ice cream. It was fun and then we were home.

At the capitol: