Day 1: Lincoln, NE
For a short weekend trip in celebration of our 15th wedding anniversary, L and I decided to make a short weekend trip to Lincoln. Yes, Nebraska.
We both too Friday off, and headed out that morning, taking our time, since it is only a little over three hours away by car.
We arrived around lunchtime, and dined at a place called Buzzard Billy's, a Cajun place. My shrimp po-boy was very good, as was the locally brewed brown ale.
We drove up early so we could go to the National Museum of Roller Skating, which is not open on the weekends. This museum was pretty small, and was kind of funny. There was some interesting stuff there, but I don't think I could recommend going to Lincoln just to see it. Some of the really old skates were fun to see, and some of the costumes from the 70s were a riot.
The funniest thing was that the building had a bunch of people working in cubicles for the National Roller Skating Association. I saw at least 12 people working there. Is this organization so huge that it needs a staff of this size? I guess so, but I thought it was pretty funny.
After the museum we strolled around the Haymarket District in Lincoln. This is nice historic district with some old commercial buildings.
I really like the old painted signs.
It was L's idea to take this picture of the three signs, and it is one of the best pictures of the whole trip, I think.
After shopping for a while we had a light snack/early supper at a local brewpub,
and headed to the motel to check in and crash.
We both too Friday off, and headed out that morning, taking our time, since it is only a little over three hours away by car.
We arrived around lunchtime, and dined at a place called Buzzard Billy's, a Cajun place. My shrimp po-boy was very good, as was the locally brewed brown ale.
We drove up early so we could go to the National Museum of Roller Skating, which is not open on the weekends. This museum was pretty small, and was kind of funny. There was some interesting stuff there, but I don't think I could recommend going to Lincoln just to see it. Some of the really old skates were fun to see, and some of the costumes from the 70s were a riot.
The funniest thing was that the building had a bunch of people working in cubicles for the National Roller Skating Association. I saw at least 12 people working there. Is this organization so huge that it needs a staff of this size? I guess so, but I thought it was pretty funny.
After the museum we strolled around the Haymarket District in Lincoln. This is nice historic district with some old commercial buildings.
I really like the old painted signs.
It was L's idea to take this picture of the three signs, and it is one of the best pictures of the whole trip, I think.
After shopping for a while we had a light snack/early supper at a local brewpub,
and headed to the motel to check in and crash.
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Gainesville has a similar kind of market downtown. It's mostly crafts until things start to ripen, and then it turns into a produce market. The milk from the local organic dairy is phenomenally good.