Road Trip! (Part One)

This week Aaron went to Omaha for a business trip.  He left on Tuesday and was set to come home Friday afternoon. After making sure it was ok with him, Jenna and I decided to join him after I got off work on Wednesday. On the ride there, I told Jenna that we were going to Omaha and she said, “Elmo!” It was so cute, but I felt bad that she wasn’t going to get to see Elmo!

 

Cheesing it up as we were leaving:

We were able to leave by 1:00. I’d been stocking up on new (to us) books and toys for the trip and made sure I packed lots of snacks.  She napped from our house to the northern edge of the city and then played with her new toys and books for a while. We had to stop once (in a cornfield in Iowa no less) for a diaper change, but the drive was otherwise pretty uneventful.  We got there just as Aaron was getting done with work, so we met him in the lobby, then went to the room to relax for a few minutes before meeting his co-workers for dinner.  There were 4 others, two that work in his office and two from other sites.  Jenna loved meeting them and sat on a couple of their laps, but she was too wound up from being in the car, so we walked the hotel during most of our wait for dinner (it took about an hour for them to get our food). Although it was a long wait, the food was excellent. Jenna and I split a chicken quesadilla and a bowl of fruit.

By the time we were finished with dinner, Jenna was getting tired, so we retired to our room.  We let her play for a while because it was only 8 and we didn’t want to go to bed yet. By 8:45 she was getting fussy, so we tried to get her to go to sleep while we watched TV. No such luck.  Finally we decided to move her pack and play into the bathroom and she went right to sleep.

Thursday morning we got up when Aaron went to work and then headed to Lincoln to visit my childhood friend Audrey and her boyfriend Jon.  As I got Jenna loaded into the car, she kept asking about Elmo. Maybe she really was expecting to see him! In Lincoln, we had lunch at a bar and grill that had the BEST cheeseburgers ever. Yum! I don’t get to see Audrey very often anymore, so it was great to catch-up, even if we just got to visit over lunch. After lunch we drove back to Omaha and rested for a bit in the hotel before heading down to the pool. As we were getting ready, I realized I forgot the swimming diapers, so we ran over to Wal-mart.  When we got back, the hotel was swarming with little league baseball teams. Guess what that meant, the pool, which was about 8’x10’ was SWARMING with them.  I kid you not, there were whitecaps on the pool from so much activity.  Luckily, Jenna was deterred from the pool by a walk.  There were some shops near the hotel that I wanted to check out, so we walked there.  Meanwhile Aaron got off work, so we headed back to the room and then went to dinner at a bar and grill. This time I had lettuce wraps and they were so good.  After dinner it was back to the hotel and bedtime for Jenna. We watched the basketball game. We were rooting for the Celtics, well, maybe we were just rooting against the Lakers. 

Thursday morning:

Well, this post seems pretty long, so I’m going to break it up into two. Check back later for an update on the rest of our trip!