ALL Aboard!

We set off at the early hour of....well, 8:00 a.m. Not quite as early as we had hoped and we needed to get to Nebraska that evening. So it was full speed ahead!

Nebraska smelled like fresh wheat and mint to me. It was divine! We saw a lot of towns like this from the road - sad. I always want to move there, fix up the Main Street and then move to the next town.

Our stop for the night! We Hampton Inn'd it the whole way - thank goodness we came when we did. Rail Days was the following weekend and all the hotels in the area and beyond were booked solid. At least that was what I was told by the sweet lady working there. She was quite excited about this.

Greg taking in the view of North Platte's train yard. The largest in the WORLD! It was 2 miles wide and 15 miles long. The boys thought this was fantastic. (It was pretty impressive!) On the other side of Greg was corn as far as you could see - crazy!

We of course had to stop by and sneak up on an Indian. Shhh..you need to be quite though since he is hunting that buffalo in the field!

Sod House Monument. Can you imagine trying to keep the flies out of something like that? Neither Graham nor Greg believed me when I said the house was made from sod!

That and 8 hours of driving was about it for Day One. We were so tired but as soon as we arrived at the hotel, ate some pizza and took the kids swimming, you'd have thought we took the kids to Disneyland they were so happy. So happy that it took us 3 hours to get them to sleep that night!