To Kearney and Beyond!

It's that time again!  New blog post coming your way!

In two days...

I'm tired tonight.

Just-a-kidding!  I hope I didn't scare you too much.  Don't worry, a blog post is on its way!

Here I am!

I am the fabled blog post of the night.

I have come to suck your blood.

Oh, wait, that's the mosquitos' jobs.

 

(so gross!  We shutter with every bug picture we post.  You don't know how hard it is to for us to allow bugs in our blog.)

Speaking of mosquitos, we are now taking blood donations to replenish all of the blood Nina has lost so far in her battle against the Nebraskan mosquitos.  

(In all seriousness, if you can donate your blood to your local blood bank, please do.  Blood banks are always short on donations.  And once you donate, you can walk up to anyone in a hospital with an IV, 

and say 

"you're welcome." 

Of course, that person probably will have no idea what you're talking about, and may even call security on you if you go up to them repeatedly. But, seriously, if you donate to a blood bank you'll know that you've helped someone, somewhere, have more blood for mosquitoes to suck out. Kudos my friend, kudos).

Anyway, where were we?  Oh yes, Nina + Nebraska= Fresh Mosquito Meat

Thank you to all of you who have given Nina suggestions on how to avoid the pesky mosquitos.  To save on time, Nina tried out all of the strategies at once.  She hasn't been bit since!  Though, we're not sure if that's because the strategies worked or because the mosquitos are still laughing at her crazy antics. 

On other, less bloody news, we experienced our first Nebraska lightening storm on Tuesday night.  Let us just say,

nothing.

Because we are speechless, not because we have 

become mimes (in case you were worried.)

It was the craziest storm we've ever witnessed.  We tried taking a bunch of pictures while the storm was going on, but this is the only one that turned out.

Oh yea, that's a funnel cloud on the left.  But look at that lightening bolt!  Unfortunately, we can't take credit for this picture.  Our neighbor actually took it.  Okay, okay, maybe we found this picture online, but that is what our storm looked like.  Minus the funnel cloud.  

That is all for now.  We know your nerves probably can't take much more, what with our request for your blood, and our determination to scare you three-fourths to death with our awesome funnel cloud picture.  So please, rest up (we recommend in a bed) and get lots of fluid (we recommend chocolate milk)...

Until next time...

(Oh, you expected this blog to be about our trip to Kearney?  What would give you that crazy idea?  Well, let us give you a quick synopsis of our trip:

Drove.

Sonic (yum!).

(awww...so cute...)
Target (yay!).
Kearney mall (ehhh).
Dinner (so full).
Blog posting

(deja vu, anyone?).

Okay, so now, rest up
 
(don't forget the chocolate milk).

Until next time....

Fort Cody & Things

These past few days have been filled with interesting adventures.

Here in Nebraska, particularly in North Platte, there are 

three "RUNZA" restaurants.

The running joke is "Runza gives you the Runzas!"

It's a pretty interesting place to go... they serve things that look like this:

These little guys are called Runzas.... interesting... we've yet to try one, though, 

we're a little scared.

Yesterday (Monday) we went to the Fort Cody Trading Post in town.

Our town is home to Buffalo Bill Cody, and so he gets an entire trading post

dedicated to him.

There were awesome things inside such as:

This two-headed cow. Yes, we know you're jealous.

There was also a plastic reenactment case inside as well that was rather thrilling.

Cowboys & Indians going at it.

It was an adventure for sure.

Other than going to Runza's (no, we did not get the runzas ;])

and checking out the Fort Cody Trading Post,

we have just been hanging out at home.

Brian's parents have been here since Sunday night

and they leave Wednesday morning. 

It has been great having them visit us here in Nebraska.

We've been playing a lot of Carcassonne

which, when YOU come and visit us, faithful blog reader,

we will play this with you, and you will like it.

Oh, our parents left for their big adventure Sunday night as well!

They flew to Hong Kong and arrived safely, then flew to Bali.

They leave Bali soon to arrive in Dili which is close to their

new home in East Timor!

We are so excited for them!

Alright, I think that is it for now. A short, sweet, and to the point

blog post... we know, you're not used to it,

which is good, and you shouldn't get used to it, either,

because they won't usually be like this... just saying.

Until Next Time...