After a quick Dunkins breakfast we caught up with the crew at the hotel and set off for the zoo. We did the fast free pass into the zoo via customer services and went straight to the aquarium where we were met by one of the staff. He gave us a terrific tour of the back room workings of the aquarium. We got to walk over the exhibits and see the shark display etc from above which was very cool. Way cooler, i got to feed and play with a large octopus! It would wrap...

We woke early but didn't move ourselves with any speed. There's no microwave in our room so couldn't make our own breakfast. Downstairs in the foyer we found Boomer and a couple we didn't know but got introduced to by Boomer. We checked out the hotel breakfasts and they weren't too badly priced but there was only standard fare much like we usually cook for ourselves so we decided to treat ourselves. We drove to a local Village Inn for breakfast which was pretty...

We woke early and slowly got breakfast ready and organised ourselves. Setting off for Omaha along the back roads we again were in corn country, mile after mile of dried out corn fields. Here and there some had been chopped close to the ground or was in the process of being razed. The terrain is less flat, more gentle rolling hills. Again there's a lot of water, rivers, ponds marshes etc in one marshy area there were a lot of herons both the white and blue ver...