The Hohensee Family: It's almost time for school

Since the summer is almost over, we decided to take a mini-vacation earlier this week.

We left on Sunday and headed to Des Moines. We shopped a little on the way down there and a little more once we hit DSM. We checked into our hotel and headed to HuHot for supper. Josh and I love to eat there, but Paige had never been before. We have since decided that will be a "date place" because she did not like it at all. We stopped by McDonald's on the way back to the hotel so she could get a cheeseburger.

On Monday, we headed to Adventureland. The weather was a little warm, but tolerable. We got there about noon and rode rides for a couple hours. Josh is so glad to have a little buddy to ride the scary rides with. I don't really like rides that much, so the tilt-o-whirl is about all the excitement I can handle. They rode the roller coaster twice and hit all the rides she was tall enough to ride (which was all but 2). We headed to the water park at Adventurland, Kokomo Cove, about 3 and stayed for a couple hours. After changing back into our dry clothes, we went back to the rides. We stayed until 9 so Paige could see the park all lit up. She really liked it. After leaving, we ended up at Hooter's for a late supper. Who doesn't love chicken wings?

Wednesday morning we got up early to head to Omaha. We got to the zoo about 11:30 and spent most of the day there. Paige wasn't very excited about the zoo. I thought she would enjoy it more than she did, but it was hot so a lot of the animals were hard to see since they were hiding in the shade. We checked into our hotel after leaving the zoo and spent a few hours at the pool.

The Petting Zoo at Dairy World at the zoo

"Help! I'm being eaten by a hippo!" She thought this was hilarious
The Aquarium, she was trying to get the big fish to give her kisses

Which one is my monkey?

Paige loved the orangutans because they have the same color hair she does

The fountain right inside the zoo

I learned that only the boys are peacocks, the girls are peahens and the babies are peafowl. Who knew?

Daddy's girl

We went for the Sea lion show, but Wednesday's are the only day they don't do one because they clean the tank. Oh well, we still got to get a good look at them on the rocks.

Feeding the budgies

Thursday morning we went to the Omaha Children's Museum. We had a great time there. There was a traveling exhibit about the body. That was interesting. They also had an art room, a theater room, a room where the kids could shoot balls from all sorts of devices, a store. Whew! It was a lot of fun and I would recommend it to anybody heading to Omaha. Thanks to my cousin, Kelly, for her great ideas.

Racing the wheelchair in the Body room.