Final vacation day!

Vacation 2008 Day #8

First I want to say isn't this 1st picture awesome. Its like a frozen moment in time. I don't have any idea how I got the picture to turn out like that but its so cool! We weren't about to slow down the final day of our trip so we got up early, packed up and took off for Plymouth Rock. Someone might have told us that the Portico that encloses the actual rock was under construction but no such warning. Good thing it wasn't much out of the way. We did get to look at the Mayflower and a gift shop replica of the rock though. After a bit of dissapointment we were off to Boston to meet up with Jeff and Tiffany at the New England Aquarium which was fantastic. We had lunch there and were off to check out the fish. The best part was the large number of penguins that were on exhibit around the large center tank that had a huge number of impressive fish in it. We definitely recommend the aquarium and wish we would have had more time to stick around but it was time to say our emotional goodbye's to Aunt Tiffany and head to the airport. After a not so smooth run through security where my sister was pulled aside for an unknown object in the luggage xray which took forever to find, our flight was running way late and we were quite certain that we were going to miss the connection. (I probably should add that the luggage item was a bottle of water I had stashed in her luggage earlier in the day in an end pocket without letting her know, OOPS Sorry again sis!) Anyway we finally got on our first plane and the pilot said he added some extra gas and was going to kick up the flight speed a few notches to help certain passengers meet tight connections. Our flight took off like an hour and fifteen minutes late and still managed to get there on time. The connection was being held for us so we made it, however our seats were in the very back of the plane and we took out about 20 people making our way to our seats. Let me add that these passengers were not too happy that we had held up there flight and we got some pretty dirty looks. Thank goodness the kids slept the entire flight and it was very peaceful. We flew back into Omaha at 10pm the night that they got hit by a huge storm that knocked out tons of power and ripped off part of the Quest Center. My sister and I were in one car and Ryan in the other. We missed our turn to get back to the interstate and ended up going down Dodge Street with ZERO power. Dodge Street and no traffic lights is a bit scary at 10pm on a Friday night but we managed to get back to Lincoln and that was that-the end of a fantastic vacation.